90 Miles (2001)

Having grown up within the Cuban Revolution in 1980 Juan Carlos Zaldívar was a 13yearold pioneer jeering in the streets at the thousands of Marielitos leaving the island by boat for the United States Within weeks he was a Marielito himself headed with the rest of his family for a new life in Miami Now a USbased filmmaker Zaldívar recounts the strange twist of fate that took him across one of the worlds most treacherous stretches of water in 90 Miles a new documentary having its broadcast premiere on PBSs acclaimed POV series in the summer of 2003 As related by Zaldívar in the intensely personal and evocative 90 Miles arrival in South Florida is only the beginning of the familys struggles to comprehend the full meaning of their passage into exile What follows is an intimate and uneasy accounting of the historical forces that have split the Cuban national family in two and which shape the passage of values from one generation to the next