¿Por que?, (Why?)

Jorge Luis Morejon (center) on location during the filming of ¿Por que?

Director Luis A. Saumel (right). Virginia Key. Miami. Florida, 1994

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Jorge Luis Morejon played one of four leading characters in ¿Por que? (Why?), a film short about the Cuban People's struggle for freedom and winner of the Charleston International Film festival Silver Award. The film recreated short vignettes of the lives of four young Cuban men who, suffer political emprionement or death, who fight against the Cuban regime during Bay of Pigs, who are in a refugee camp in Guantanamo Bay and who finally escape Cuba’s current dictatorial regime on a raft but never make it to the other side of the straits of Florida. The film, directed by Luis Saumell, makes great use of visual metaphors and combines them with dramatic, poetic, political and historical statements. It was Jorge Luis Morejon’s first experience with film. There is only this newspaper cutting available in his personal archive.

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Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gphqyaBmbjI

article:  http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/20080811/NEWS/187061660