Ghost Town to Havana
Ghost Town to Havana

Ghost Town to Havana

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2015
1h 26m
Documentary

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.

Production

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

Cast

Roscoe Bryant

Roscoe Bryant

Himself

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