4th in our series of documentaries HEART BEAT profiling Caribbean-Canadian musicians,
“The Making Of Alex Cuba” is the Toronto Star’s Choice for this Tuesday night viewing!
From the Cuban countryside to rural British Columbia discover, we present Juno winner Alex Cuba.Director Safiya Randera’s gorgeous documentary observes the artist in his emerging success as an international musician, from recording in Havana’s famous Egrem Studios through behind-the-scenes footage of the upcoming music video, “Tu Boca”. Join Alex Cuba as he looks within his own history for discoveries on bridging culture through music.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW TRAILER
Heart Beat is gracially sponsored by CKLN 88.1 FM. Click HERE to listen to CKLN’s Verlia Stevens interviewing ALEX CUBA on her weekly show “Limin’ with Verlia in the African Diaspora.”
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CaribbeanTales and Leda Serene Films are proud to present…Heart Beat
in association with Bravo! and Gayelle The Channel (Trinidad)
“We all have a heart, which is a drum, beating the rhythm of life…”
Muhtadi, Master Drummer.
Heart Beat is a 13 x 1/2hr documentary series that profiles Canadian-Caribbean musicians and explores the hearts, minds and worlds of some of Canada’s most dynamic musical creators.
Thirteen beautifully crafted point -of-view documentaries profiling artists like: Master drummer Muhtadi, World-beat band Kobo Town, Juno award-winning trumpeter Nick “Brownman” Ali, MOJAH, steel pannist and cultural activist Ian Jones, Cuban singer/songwriter Alex Cuba and Canada’s still unbeaten Calypso Queen Macomere Fifi, to name but a few.The series is created and produced by award-winning filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon, and directed with panache and passion by Lana Lovell, Safiya Randera, Paul Nguyen, Andrea Stewart, Justin Lovell, Mars Horodyski, and Alberto Suarez.
