About This Film
Plot: Freedom is like flying; you can go in any direction, look around and decide where you want to land. Freedom gives people a choice and brings self-satisfaction and happiness. Are people happy in the countries where their freedom is limited? Cuba is one of the few ...
Ratings: Unrated
Genres: Documentary
Country: United States Languages: English
Credits:
Producer
Nicholas Shumaker
Director
Brit Marling
and 19 others.
Runtime: 83 min
Awards: (Winner) Cinequest Film Festival ... and 1 other.
Plot
Freedom is like flying; you can go in any direction, look around and decide where you want to land. Freedom gives people a choice and brings self-satisfaction and happiness. Are people happy in the countries where their freedom is limited? Cuba is one of the few smaller territories that resist the influence of the United States. Poverty-stricken, it is very difficult for Cubans to earn a living. Boxers and Ballerinas depicts the lives of four young athletes—a young boxer and a young dancer in Havana, Cuba and a boxer and dancer living in Miami, Florida—each trying to achieve his/her goals in life. Mike Cahill and Brit Marling’s incredible story of these young professionals vividly demonstrates the controversy of human emotions when people are forced to make a choice of leaving their country for greater possibilities or staying and succeeding in the more difficult conditions in which they live. It is a story of what freedom means for a person in any country and evaluates the human right to have a nationality.
Reception
Awards:
(Winner)Cinequest Film Festival Directors Award, Global Landscapes,
(Winner)Brekenridge Festival of Film Best Documentary
Reviews:
Newsweek, Current Magazine (5.0) ""Downright Remarkable!""
Variety (5.0) ""Confident feature debut!""
The Washington Post (5.0) ""A prodigiously gathered and precisely orchestrated symphony of sights and
sounds from both sides of the Florida Straits, Boxers and Ballerinas weaves
controversial political theory, traumatic historical signposts, and urgent human
drama into a stylish and provocative whole.""
Film Festivals:
Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijon,
San Francisco International Film Festival
Trailers and Artwork
Key Art:
Languages: English
Quotes and Credits
Credits
Producer Nicholas Shumaker
Director Brit Marling
Writer Mike Cahill
Writer Brit Marling
Writer Nicholas Shumaker
Director Mike Cahill
Associate Producer Armando Guerra
Associate Producer Marco Ciocca
Film Editor Mike Cahill
Film Editor Brit Marling
Executive Producer Herman Valerius
Executive Producer Jyll Johnstone
Executive Producer Charlie Johnstone
Music Scoring Mixer Lee Mars
Original Music Craig Wedren
Producer's Representative Andrew Hurwitz
Voice: Narrator Gene Cross
Distributors Wide Management
Special Thanks Johnny Temple
Cinematography Mike Cahill
Special Thanks Meggan Lennon
Cinematography Brit Marling
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