GUANTANAMERA BOXE
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Canada
2000 / Video / Color / 52 min.
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Boxing is the sweet art. In Cuba, sometimes, it is also the sweet life. Yauset and Michel are 14 and 15 respectively, two young Cuban boxers who are about to participate in their first competition, the Cuban national school championships. The results of this competition will decide whether they'll be members of the national junior team. The film follows the boys as they prepare for one of the great tests of their young lives, and we share their struggle. Through the portraits of these boys we also discover that Cuba is a veritable machine for the manufacture of Olympic boxing champions.
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Script: Yann Langevin.
Phot.: Alex Margineanu.
Ed.: Simon Sauv�.
Mus.: Gaetan Gravel, Serge Laforest.
Prod.: Orlando Arriagada,Productions Al Dente, 4200, boulevard Saint-Laurent, bureau 509, Montr�al, Qu�bec H2W 2R2 (Canada), t�l.: (514) 282-3323, fax: (514) 282-3309, e-mail: [email protected].
Sales: Antenna, 5266, boulevard Saint-Laurent, Montr�al, Qu�bec H2T 1S1 (Canada), t�l.: (514) 271-4000, fax: (514) 271-4005, e-mail: [email protected].
Canadian Distributor: Antenna.
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Yann Langevin, Richard Jean-Baptiste
Yann Langevin studied sociology at the universities of Nantes (France) and Montreal and is currently working at the National Film Board of Canada in the First Documentaries program. Guantanamera Boxe marks his directorial debut.
Since taking his bachelor's in cinema at the University of Montreal in 1996, Richard Jean-Baptiste has directed commercials, videos and documentaries, mainly for his own Al Dente production house. He teaches at the Academy of Design in Montreal. He co-directed M�re (1994), a documentary shown on TV5 and T�l�vision Quatre Saisons.
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