Director: Luciano Larobina
Producer: IMICINE, Acitron S.C.
Screenplay: Luciano Larobina
Cinematographer: Emiliano Villanueva
Editor: Juan Manuel Figueroa, Haydeé Montaño, Natalia López y Aldo Alvarez
Music: Pablo Valero, Descemer Bueno, Kelvis Ochoa, Anónimo Consejo, Last Poets, Supanova Slom
Principal Cast: DJ Tony Tone, Familias Cuba Represent, The Fantastic Aleems (Taharqa y Tunde Ra), SupaNova Slom, Explosión Suprema, Asho (Ariel Fernandez), The Last Poets (Abiodun y Umar)

The rebellious and contentious discourse of the musicians invites us to reflect on the counterculture and the parallel realities that arise in every government system. The dreams, the family, the barrio, the city, life, war, and politics are some of the themes that permeate their music and nourish the story. From the neighbourhoods of Havana and New York, the camera portrays, with a participatory vision, the reflections that the musicians of both cities have elaborated in relation to their roots, the evolution of the drum to the soul of Hip Hop.

 

El discurso rebelde y contestatario de los músicos cubanos y norte americanos nos invita a reflexionar sobre la contracultura y las realidades paralelas que nacen en todo sistema de gobierno. Los Sueños, la familia, el barrio, la ciudad, la vida, la guerra y la política son algunos de los temas que permean su música y nutren nuestra historia. Desde los barrios de la Habana y New York, la cámara retrata con una visión cómplice las reflexiones que los músicos de ambas ciudades han ido elaborando en relación a sus raíces, a la evolución del tambor y al alma del Hip Hop.

Luciano Larobina was born on July 10, 1972, in San Martín de los Andes, Patagonia, Argentina. He moved to Mexico in 1980 and then got his Mexican citizenship. He studied at the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. In 1996, he enrolled at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (Film Training Centre), and graduated with the documentary thesis Zapata’s Shoes in the year 2000. He has received FONCA, Rockefeller and Toscano Foundation IAP grants plus the support of IMCINE. Havanyork obtained a Jury Special Mention at the Guadalajara Film Festival this year.

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