Screenings:
Saturday, April 29, 10:15 AM, Charles 2

Director Chris Hume traveled to Cuba 4 times over 18 months. He entered the island on a tourist visa and did not apply for any special permits to film-allowing him to travel inconspicuously as a guerilla filmmaker, gaining access to people and places that would have otherwise been off-limits. This is Cuba began as a lone Yankee's journey through a Communist time capsule; along the way it became a story of the bizarre, the sad, and the beautiful in a strangely innocent land.

Tidbit:
Chris Hume and fellow Maryland Film Festival participant Mark Street (Happy? and Sliding off the Edge of the World) were classmates at Bard College. Rob Fenz and Maryland Film Festival Programming Coordinator Gabe Wardell were also classmates at Bard College.

Bio:
Chris Hume graduated from Bard College in 1987 with a degree in filmmaking. In 1991 his first documentary House without a Home, which told the story of a beautiful old Beverly Hills home that was moved to South Central Los Angeles, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Hamburg Germany Film Festival. Some of his other documentaries include Beneath Los Angeles, the story of the construction of the Los Angeles subway system, and Five Days in Montserrat, a five-day journey to a volcanic island in the Caribbean.

Short:
Meditations on Revolution, vol. 2 (Robert Fenz, 1997, 9 min., 16mm) A silent portrait of Cuba's decaying capital city.