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Sons of Cuba – A Conversation with Andrew Lang

Posted Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Sons of Cuba, directed by Shooter Andrew Lang, opens at the ICA on March 18th. Here is an interview Pamela Cohn did with Andrew last year for Shooting People. Filmmaker, Andrew Lang, one could say, was destined to make his feature debut, Sons of Cuba.  His relationship with the island, and eventual journey to making his gorgeous nonfiction film, developed through a variety of serendipitous events. He was never really interested in film when he was young, he says, until

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Precisely The Point.

Posted Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Oh huzzah and joy for the internet. I wrote a couple of days ago about what I saw to be a classic example of the bad casting call. I think my post was pretty clear that I did this not out of any desire to blacken the name of the director responsible, but rather to highlight the importance of wording these posts correctly. There has been a lot of anger about the unpaid work that gets advertised on Shooting People

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