NFB Collection
Life Lessons at the Lula Lounge
200411 min 9 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Kyle Stone
Production: Peter StarrSilva Basmajian
Script: Kyle Stone
Ten recent arrivals to Canada, all Cubans in their early to mid-twenties, spend their days learning English and their nights playing and rehearsing their own blend of Cuban salsa music at various downtown clubs. Director Kyle Stone follows the group of nine women and their drummer Gilberto, capturing their constant discussions about the political situation at home and the problems of citizen engagement in both communist Cuba and democratic Canada. Life Lessons at the Lula Lounge is about music, learning, dreaming and above all, the continual quest to improve our lives and the countries we live in.
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Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Caribbean, Central and South American Origins
- Women > Cultural Groups
- Music > Portraits
- Social Studies > Communities in Canada/World
- Diversity > Diversity in Communities
- Arts Education > Music
Credits
- writer
- Kyle Stone
- director
- Kyle Stone
- producer
- Peter Starr
- editor
- Bruce Griffin
- director of photography
- Michael Grippo
- sound recordist
- Ian Challis
- original music
- D'talle
- production supervisor
- Kemp Archibald
- production/post-coordinator
- Jeff Sterne
- production coordinator apprentice
- Allan Tong
- production assistant
- Garth Archibald
- line production
- Douglas MacFarlane
- senior production administration assistant
- Joanne Forrest
- product manager
- Sue Mander
- digital edit technician
- Mark Wilson
- technical intern
- Dan Thornhill
- assistant editor
- Catherine Scott
- audio post facility
- Kitchen Sync Digital Audio
- supervising sound editor
- Russell Walker
- sound editor
- Bruce Fleming
- re-recording mixer
- Kevin Tokar
- on-line services
- Imarion
- online editor
- Dan Johnston
- colourist
- Dan Johnston
- production stills photographer
- Jag Photography
- executive producer
- Silva Basmajian