Cuba: The Past is Living Now

Ashley Love, on her first trip sailing offshore, takes to the sea with two old salts and a couple of cameras to capture Cuba before diplomatic relations inevitably alter this time-capsuled country forever.

This documentary captures the ins and outs, highs and lows of the island nation as told by teachers, security guards, urban-dwellers, country-outliers, and young English-speaking youths looking to be part of the new new “upper” class of people starting to form because of the taste of tourism to come.

What they found endearing are the exact reasons why it will have to change since the influx of Yankees won’t want to drive a rented rusty sedan, stay in someone’s house or eat in someone’s living room like they did.

Video published on Feb 27, 2017.