Casket Cinema returns with a fury on Thursday December 1st, at 8 pm with an extra special Cuban screening of "Will The Real Terrorist Please Stand up? ". This documentary explores and enlightens us on Cuban & U.S. politics in the aftermath of the imprisonment of the Cuban 5. This event is co-sponsored by Minnesota Cuba Committee and my studiomate David Schnack. David will have hanging in the Casket Cinema gallery walls his photography from Cuba and the cartoons of one of the Cuban 5 featured in the film, Gerardo Hernandez. Hernandez cartoons, "Humor from my Pen", is a biting commentary on politics and his own imprisonment. Don't miss this night as it is the closing party of this international art exhibit. For more this exhibit go to "Humor from my Pen" on Facebook.
We expect to have a great Q&A after the film with members of the MN Cuba Committee as special guests. Profits from your $5 donation will go to the MN Cuba Committee. The documentary, "Will The Real Terrorist Please Stand up? " was released last year, has has been playing festivals in the U.S. and Canada. Its' director, Saul Landau is a veteran of over 40 films and TV projects and has won an Emmy on his work for "Paul Jobs and the Nuclear Gang" His feature before WTRTPSU" was "The sixth Sun: The Mayan Uprising in the Chaipas"
We hope you all can make it.
“Will the real terrorist please stand up” chronicles half a century of hostile US-Cuba relations by telling the story of the “the Cuban five”, intelligence agents sent to penetrate Cuban exile terrorist groups in Miami and now serving long prison sentences. The film highlights decades of assassinations and sabotage at first backed then ignored by the very government that launched a “war against terrorism.” In the film, viewers see leading terrorists, now in their 80s, recounting their deeds, and Cuban state security officials explaining why they infiltrated agents into violent Miami exile groups.
The film, featuring Danny Glover and 84 year old Fidel Castro in key scenes, raises and tries to answer the question: what did Cuba do to deserve such hostile treatment? It traces key events from the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis, through multiple assassination attempts on Fidel Castro’s life. This documentary reveals a story of violence that also echoed on the streets of Washington DC, New York and especially Miami where Cuban American critics of the bombers and shooters also wound up dead.