Startup Cuba sits down with filmmaker Esteban “Steven” Petersen to learn about the motivations behind his award-winning short film.
Author - Erin Goodman
Erin Goodman has been an editor and a contributor at Startup Cuba. She is a longtime follower of US-Cuba relations and contemporary Cuban culture. Erin first traveled to Havana in 2002, and later founded a travel and translation company, taking groups of women to Havana with a focus on the arts and entrepreneurship. She has translated for The New York Times, OnCuba Travel, and many other publications.
Jorge Olivera Castillo has spent his entire life fighting for freedom of expression, and paying dearly for it.
To celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month we're sharing a film that unveils the history of Cuba's Korean diaspora.
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A film screening and discussion at the Genealogy Club of Miami highlighted the largest cultural exchange ever between the US and Cuba, in 1900.
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