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Waiting for Fidel
197457 min 50 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Michael Rubbo
Production: Tom DalyMichael RubboColin Low
Inside Fidel Castro's Cuba with a movie-making threesome whose hope is that Fidel himself will star in their film. The filmmakers are Joseph Smallwood, former Newfoundland premier, Geoff Stirling, radio and televison owner, and Michael Rubbo, NFB film director. What happens while this unusual film crew awaits its star shows a good deal of the new Cuba, and also of the three Canadians who chose to film the island.
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Subject categories
- Developing Countries > Central America and the Caribbean
- Social Issues > Foreign Societies
- Politics and Government > West Indies
Credits
- director
- Michael Rubbo
- editing
- Michael Rubbo
- photography
- Douglas Kiefer
- location sound
- Jacques Chevigny
- assistant editor
- John Fricker
- camera assistant
- Allan Morgan
- sound editing
- Tiina Soomet
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- producer
- Tom Daly
- Michael Rubbo
- executive producer
- Colin Low
Awards
- Red Ribbon Award - Category: World ConcernsItinerant - American Film and Video Festival