Model Town
Director
2007 · Documentary · 14 min
The residents of a Cuban sugar town built by American chocolatier Milton Hershey remember their community's past cultural and economic splendor as it deteriorates.
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Anthology Film Archives, "The Cuban Nexus," US
Submerged (Princeton, Rice, Tulane, Florida Atlantic)
Institute of Int. Visual Arts, "States of Exchange," UK
Ícaro Film Festival, Guatemala
Havana International Film Festival, Cuba
Providence Festival of New Latin American Cinema, US
Almacén de la Imagen Film Festival, Cuba
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Cuba's Nat. Assoc. of Film Press — best documentaries 2007
VIART Film Festival, Venezuela — Best Documentary
FENAVID Film Festival, Bolivia — Best Documentary
Havana Int. Film Festival — Sara Gómez Prize
Assoc. of Audiovisual Schools of Latin America — Best Film
Almacén de la Imagen — Grand Prize, Best Documentary
UNEAC Caracol Awards — Special Jury Prize
WRITING ON THIS FILM
Stone, Rob, and Dunja Fehimović. "Cuba's Cinematic Élan Vital." Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 23, no. 3 (2014).
Stock, Ann Marie, and Dean Luis Reyes. "Critique and Decentralization in Cuban Film After 1989." In The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Sánchez, Yoani. "Model Town." Generación Y, 2010.
Díaz, Duanel. "Model Town o La Memoria Inconsolable." Cuba Encuentro, 2009.