Since the summer of 2007, we've followed the lives of Afro Cuban boys growing up in Centro Habana, Cuba playing baseball for Coach Nicolas Reyes, and African-American boys growing up in a neighborhood in West Oakland called "Ghost Town," playing for Coach Roscoe Bryant. ....
A portrait of the coaches and the boys emerges, along with a strong sense of their neighborhoods, families, schools and cultures. We witness the enormous obstacles the Ghost Town boys face in their lives yet the story of Roscoe and his players is positive, even inspiring. The Centro Habana boys and their Afro-Cuban coach, Nicolas, live in material poverty yet their daily lives are surprisingly more carefree, with safer streets, far less racial prejudice and segregation, better schools, stronger family and community ties, plus more organized sports opportunities. Life for the boys' parents is harder. The economy is bureaucratic, centralized (though this is changing), and inefficient. Yet, compared to West Oakland, it's paradise for poor kids. It sometimes it seems as if the biggest mistake a child in Cuba can make is to grow up.
| Directed by | Roberto Chile, Eugene Corr |
| Written by | Eugene Corr |