Local filmmaker David Bradbury is leaving soon for Cuba with his two children, Nakeita, 23, and Omar, 16, to shoot social media posts and a feature-length doco they will be sending back to the Byron community via The Echo online as Trump’s next plans unfold to take over the island.
As a fundraiser to help David and his kids pay for the trip, Bradbury is having a screening tonight of a film he made on Cuba 20 years ago, Fond Memories of Cuba.
The film is laced with lots of great music and dance… and has loads of Cuba’s proud fighting spirit. Which they surely need now with a total oil blockade by Trump, bringing the island to a grinding halt.
‘There is little or no electricity for hospitals, schools, public transport, water and sewage treatment works,’ said Bradbury.
‘There is rubbish piling up in the streets which proud, starving Cubans are forced to rummage through for food scraps because food is too expensive for average Cubans or not available.’
Looking back
Fond Memories was made in 1999, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the revolution when life was still hard for average Cubans but much better than now under Trump.
‘I’m going back to Cuba in solidarity with the brave Cuban people who I’ve met and known over the last 40 years,’ said Bradbury.
‘I don’t think harm will come our way but you never know what Trump and his henchmen will get up to next – look at what he did in Venezuela, and now Iran. He’s a pig of a man! ‘No, that’s degrading for pigs. They at least know when to back off. Trump doesn’t,’ he told The Echo.
Whatever occurs while Bradbury is there, he’s sure to return with a great film in the can. Your donation, or coming to the fundraiser at the Old Drill Hall in Mullumbimby tonight can help pull that off.
Donate: Frontline Film Foundation, BSB 722 744, Account: 100014882.
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