"Cuba Scalds His Hand" dir. Abby Sun & Daniel Garber His name is Naudy Exposito, but while working in the overwhelmingly white Wyoming rodeo circuit, everyone calls him Cuba. A kinetic and humorous glimpse of a man just trying to do his job, the film rides along with Cuba, who fits the rodeo cowboy stereotype no better than he fits into his ill-fated Japanese mini-truck. After a sudden injury, Cuba’s masculine dreams collide with the reality that even the most undignified accidents can be quite painful. We're thrilled to be part of The Future of Film is Female STREAMING, an online showcase of short and feature films by women-identifying filmmakers. The Future of Film is Female is an organization working towards gender parity in the film industry; creating an inclusive community of women-identifying filmmakers through funding, exhibition, and connective experience programs. Watch the rest of the films at https://www.futureoffilmisfemale.com/fofif-streaming Previous screenings: Maryland Film Fest 2019 - World Premiere San Diego Asian Film Festival 2019 Nitehawk Shorts 2019 San Francisco IndieFest 2020 Tallahassee Film Festival 2020 (canceled due to COVID-19)

 CUBA SCALDS HIS HAND

CUBA SCALDS HIS HAND
Directed by ABBY SUN & DANIEL GARBER / 2019 / 4 min

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His name is Naudy Exposito, but while working in the overwhelmingly white Wyoming rodeo circuit, everyone calls him Cuba. A kinetic and humorous glimpse of a man just trying to do his job, the film rides along with Cuba, who fits the rodeo cowboy stereotype no better than he fits into his ill-fated Japanese mini-truck. After a sudden injury, Cuba’s masculine dreams collide with the reality that even the most undignified accidents can be quite painful.

Abby Sun is a filmmaker, programmer, and writer, currently working as the curator for the DocYard, a biweekly series of nonfiction films at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA. She has bylines in Film Comment, Filmmaker Magazine, Hyperallergic, and MUBI's Notebook, and has served on panels for the NEA, SFFILM, CAAM, the IDA’s Getting Real conference, and other filmmaker funding and support organizations. Abby is on the advisory board for SVLLY(wood) and previously was a programmer for True/False and Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival.

Daniel Garber is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Most recently, he edited Lance Oppenheim's Some Kind of Heaven, which premiered at Sundance 2020 as the only documentary in NEXT. Previously, he edited and co-produced Daniel Goldhaber & Isa Mazzei's techno-thriller CAM and received a Cinema Eye Honors nomination for his work as an editor on Sierra Pettengill & Pacho Velez's all-archival feature documentary The Reagan Show. His work has played at numerous film festivals including Tribeca, Rotterdam, Locarno, AFI FEST, BFI London, Fantastic Fest, True/False, SFFILM, Maryland, and BAMcinemafest.