"Tres Cuentos, One Cuba"

Directed By: Fred Smith
El Mayor
El Mayor, in "Tres Cuentos, One Cuba"
Photo by David Audet

Tampa-based photographer David Audet, Cuban-born musician Alfredo Rivero and Tampa's Poet Laureate James Tokely each offer their own artistic view of the Communist Paradise in a blind collaboration edited and produced by Tampa filmmaker Fred Smith.

With each artist working independently of one another, "Tres Cuentos, One Cuba", blends still photography, poetry and music to create a unique layering of emotions conveyed through the individual story each artist relates about the dynamic land and its peoples hardened by half a century of Castro's regime.

Truly a portrait of the human spirit amidst complicated beauty and struggle, "Tres Cuentos, One Cuba" is a sensory experience from which each audience member will discern something different about both Cuba and themselves.