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Ghost Town to Havana

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Ghost Town to Havana
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A rampant, street level story of mentorship and everyday heroism in tough circumstances. An inner city coach's son, estranged in his youth from his father, spends five years on ball fields in inner city Oakland and Havana, following the lives of two extraordinary youth baseball coaches, Roscoe in Oakland and Nicolas in Havana. The coaches meet on videotape and two years of red tape later, Coach Roscoe and nine Oakland players travel to Havana to play Coach Nicolas' team. For one week, the players and coaches eat, dance, swim, argue and play baseball together. But when the parent of an Oakland player is murdered back home, it brings back the inescapable reality and challenges of life in an American inner city.
StarringRoscoe Bryant
DirectorsRoberto ChileEugene Corr
WriterEugene Corr

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Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Robert Deutsch, Ruth Shapiro
Production Companies:wareham development, Playtwo Pictures, The Berkeley FILM Foundation, california council for the humanities, east bay community foundation, east bay media center, eastman foundation, fleishhacker foundation, nulamda trust foundation, San Francisco Film Society, san francisco foundation
Ghost Town to Havana on the Web:Official Website, Facebook
Movie Tags:
sportsbaseballpovertysan francisco, californiacubaurbanurban lifecaribbean seahavana, cubabay area