We are Friends of the Traverse City Film Festival and try to go to as many films as we can every year during the Festival week in the last week of July. Our favorite venues are those of the documentary series. We were fortunate to be able to get tickets to a Cuban produced film called Viva Cuba.
This film played on several different days and was totally sold out within the first few hours that the reservations were open on-line for the Friends of the Festival. We were a little slow to get on-line and we found all showings already sold-out so at first we had no ticket; however, we were fortunate to get a ticket by arriving 2 hours early to one of the showings to get a stand-by ticket.
The film director is Cuban, the main child actor and actresse are about 12 years old and it was filmed along the entire length of the island of Cuba. It was an imaginative travelogue with fantasy and adventure as only a child can experience - an excellent film, that received one of the film awards at the festival.
The man in white is the producer, the three to the right are either actors or directors, and to the left of the director, is Michael Moore who was introducing the folks after the film where there is always a question and answer session which often is as interesting as the film itself..
Michael Moore (below) stops by many of the documentary venues to introduce the movie and give history and background of the making of the film.
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