ILFF10/2006 "Guerrilla Radio: Struggle under Castro

dir. Thomas Nybo, 2006, Cuba / U S A, 46 min.

Picture a world filled with Marx and Lenin's empty promise of communal survival and equality. Add a soundtrack filled with gritty beats and urban expression and you get Guerilla Radio: The Hip Hop Struggle Under Castro. The explosion of American influenced hip-hop in Cuba has become an art form that promotes social-political reform against a tyrannous regime that prohibits the Cuban youth from speaking about poverty, social struggle and Fidel Castro. From censorship, to police harassment, to working for a meager $15 a month, this modern day urban manifesto embraces the daily battle Cuban hip-hop artists face to keep their musical revolution alive. Thomas Nybo's entrancing documentary is packed with an array of interviews with premier underground rappers who not only express an anti-communist outlook on life but a positive view on how Hip-Hop will influence future generations. Nybo's film is an inspirational reminder of hip-hop's ability to transcend social restrictions and raise political-consciousness throughout the world.
Screening at 10th International Latino Film Festival - San Francisco Bay Area on
11/16/2006 @ 6:30 PM - @ La Peña Cultural Center (Berkeley)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Guerrilla
• Radio
• Cuba
• Hip
• Hop
• Communism
• Revolution

[AdamVikingen]

This is so much propaganda! only a bunch of lies!

[Curatalo506]

What countrys is it that I hear about the "guerilla" fighters/ When they fight against the government?

I would like to know. I havent found out yet.

What countrys are the revolucions going on in?

[toxicharold]

al cubano le gusta la violencia ? que ignorante ese comentario. Si le gustase la violencia, ya hubiera otra revolucion. y los bobos estos que piensan que por vender un veinte son expertos en la cultura cubana, que desde aqui pueden descrivir lo que pasa alla...porque no van ? porque no desafian los dos goviernos y se llenan los cojones y tocan en Cuba de gratis en el anfiteatro de Alamar?

[SomoshiphopRadio]

PITBULL said "They work, they break their back and dont have nothing"

what about the farm workers in California?

What about the minimun wage Waltmart and such workers ? People in the U.S. Work all their fucking lives but they still got nothing.

on top of that there is no Health Care in this fucking country, 18,000 people die every year in the U.S. due to lack of insurance.

single mothers have 3 fucking Jobs. renting a house cost $3000.00 or more here, what the fuck you talking about pitmule

[ComradeMartin]

"The world is more like it is now then it ever has before." - Dwight Eisenhower

Important leaders sometimes say dumb things.

[FreeNMiami]

Hey ComradeMartin:

"Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist." --Jose Marti

"Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand." --Jose Marti

[ComradeMartin]

Why don't you people ever call for all those freedoms except the "freedom" to create private businesses? Why is all of your freedom pinned on that premise? Is it perhaps because your version of freedom, isn't freedom at all?

[FreeNMiami]

Yup, the left always rises to the level of severely being the mental basket case they all are. Oh, should we also mention the hate that boils them all as soon they're out of bed in the morning?! So, why are Leftists always talking about hate? Because it fills their own hearts. keep spewing your hate message & greasing the wheels of evil, that way Islamists-Communists-Leftists unite with a shared hatred for the USA. What a bitter, hateful group the are.How Typical of their mental disorder!

[FreeNMiami]

Do I hear "Bush Deranged Syndrome" (BDS) here?

[FreeNMiami]

You Shall Have No Gods Before Envy

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. --Winston Churchill

If you are a true leftist, then you shall covet. Your life is built around a chronic feeling of lack for which you imagine that others are responsible. How pathetic, the left builds its entire worldview around feeling enviously entitled to the object he lacks. How infantile...