New Screening Dates

                                                                         THE  UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUBIA
8:30 PM                                                                                                                                                                                                  

TO BE DETERMINED
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29TH 2007                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
HALO AND CAUSA (CUBAN AMERICAN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION) WILL BE SCREENING THE DIRECTOR'S CUT OF LEJOS DE LA ISLA DURING THE UNIVERSITY'S LATIN HERITAGE MONTH.  A QUESTION AND ANSWER PERIOD WITH FILMMAKER L.E. SALAS WILL FOLLOW THE SCREENING.

                                                                                           SETON HALL UNIVERSITY
8:30 PM                                                                                                                                                                           College of Nursing/Nursing Amphitheater
TUESDAY OCTOBER 9TH 2007                                                                                                                                            400 South Orange Ave
                                                                                                                                                                                                   South Orange, NJ 07079

ENCORE PRESENTATION OF FAR FROM THE ISLAND (LEJOS DE LA ISLA) WILL BE PRESENTED BY S.H.U.C.A.S (SETON HALL UNIVERSITY CUBAN AMERICAN STUDENTS).  -A QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION WILL FOLLOW THE SCREENING.

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Waves of our stories have washed onto these shores. Now, let us share them.

Lejos de la Isla tells the story of those closely affected by the 47 years of the Cuban Revolution.  

Prior to Fidel Castro's reign, Cuba was open to immigration. However, once Castro proclaimed himself dictator of Cuba, one of the largest exodus recorded began, an exodus that continues today, 47 years after Castro's Revolution.

Six central characters of the film discuss in detail their personal experiences through Operation Pedro Pan, the Freedom Flights, El Mariel, the Rafter Crisis, and the Cuban Visa Lottery.  

Dr. Luis Martinez-Fernandez, Cuban Scholar, Historian and chief editor of The Encyclopedia of Cuba, speaks in length about the events that lead to the revolution and identifies the history of Cuban Immigration.  Dr. Victor Andres Triay, Cuban-American Historian, Professor, and Author of Fleeing Castro and Bay of Pigs, discusses the rise of the revolution and the failures of the Bay of Pigs attack due to the lack of promised U.S. support.  

Yvonne Conde, Free-lance Journalist and Author of Operation Pedro Pan, shares her personal experience of the first year of the revolution as well as being one of 14,000 Cuban Children who were sent out of Cuba as part of an underground program called Operation Pedro Pan.

Another feature in Lejos de la Isla is Lauradis Salas, a central character of the film, who voyages back to Cuba after leaving in 2002 as part of the Cuban Visa Lottery to see the family she left behind.  

Lejos de la Isla is an undoubtedly emotionally charged documentary that examines the ongoing crisis between both the people of Cuba and the Cuban exilic communities that exist throughout the U.S.

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