A Cuban-born filmmaker recounts the strange fate that brought him as a groomed young communist to exile in Miami in 1980 during the dramatic Mariel boatlift.  90 Miles is the candid and moving story of an immigrant family, and how the historical forces around them have shaped their personal relationship and their attitudes towards the world around them.

Study guide available.

This is a Framline release.

Awards:

Best Documentary Award, Louis Wolfson II Media History Center Award, Miami

Best Documentary Award, New York International Latino Film Festival

Black Coral Award for Best Documentary, Festival de Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Havana
"...this moving story sounds great, thanks to a soundtrack brimming with Cuban music. Recommended." - Video Librarian

"90 Miles is literally the measure of the distance between Cuba and the United States, but the film also takes the measure of the distance, tracing lines between intimate personal history and collective identity, and offering a layered, complicated meditation on familial belonging, political participation and (more subtly) queer sensibility.  Its tools are simple:  time (the film took five years to make) and footage (it was cut down from 250 hours of archival materials, home movies, Super-8 footage, Hi-8 and digital video interviews).  Its results are worth exploring, with an eye especially toward two stories, elegantly interwoven:  the story of a gay son and his father, and the story of a return to Cuba."

- from Amy Villarejo, 90 Miles: The Politics and Aesthetics of Personal Documentary, in Zimmerman and Ishikawa, Mining the Home Movie (University of California Press, 2007).

Price:
Institutional: $250.00 DVD
Rental: $150.00 DVD (Please email for rental agreement)