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Broad Green Pictures
Convergent Media
Producciones de la 5ta Avenida
Buena Vista Social Club: Adios
Overview
In 1996, Cuban bandleader Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, British producer Nick Gold, and American guitarist Ry Cooder convened in Havana to produce a Cuban-Malian collaboration. When the Malians couldn’t get visas, the team turned their attention to reviving a forgotten generation of legendary son cubano musicians and formed an on-the-fly ensemble: the Buena Vista Social Club. Two decades since that fateful first session, we catch up to these master musicians, as they reflect on the magical unfolding of their lives—from humble origins to the evolution and surprising revival of their careers, all against the backdrop of Cuba’s dramatic history. Brimming with unseen concert, rehearsal, and archival footage, this film is an emotional, shimmering celebration of music’s power to transcend age, ideologies, and class, and to connect us to each other through our souls.
Key Crew
Director: Lucy Walker
Director of Photography: Lucas Gath, Enrique Chediak, Nick Higgins
Producer: Christine Cowin, Asher Goldstein, Victor Moyers, Julian Cautherley, Zak Kilberg
Top Cast
Videos
Buena Vista Social Club: Adios Trailer #1 (2017) | Movieclips Indie
