The Man of Two Havanas: Documentary Film http://www.manoftwohavanas.com Official website of The Man of Two Havanas Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:28:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en Pvt. Bradley Manning and the NYT:Manufacturing a Villain http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/pvt-bradley-manning-and-the-nytmanufacturing-a-villain/ http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/pvt-bradley-manning-and-the-nytmanufacturing-a-villain/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:28:00 +0000 Vivien http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/?p=353 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vivien-lesnik-weisman/pvt-bradeley-manning-and_b_679075.html

]]> http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/pvt-bradley-manning-and-the-nytmanufacturing-a-villain/feed/ The Alan Gross case: Could 12 dozen = 5? http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/the-alan-gross-case-could-12-dozen-5/ http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/the-alan-gross-case-could-12-dozen-5/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:33:27 +0000 Vivien http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/the-alan-gross-case-could-12-dozen-5/ desc

The Alan Gross case: Could 12 dozen = 5?.

]]> http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/the-alan-gross-case-could-12-dozen-5/feed/ Field Notes from the journalist and author Stephen Kimber on “The Man Of Two Havanas” http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/field-notesl-stephen-kimber/ http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/field-notesl-stephen-kimber/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:11:49 +0000 Vivien http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/?p=346 a great interview with my dad, Max Lesnik, the real Man of Two Havanas…

Here’s an excerpt from Field Notes 2: Miami by Stephen Kimber

Lesnik is about to tell me about how he’d first come to know one of those Miami terrorist “heroes”—Orlando Bosch—in Havana in the days before the revolution, but then he looks at his watch. He has to go. His mother, who is 100, is not well and he needs to go see her, he says. He hands me a DVD of The Man of Two Havanas, an award-winning but little seen documentary his daughter Viven Lesnik Weisman made about him two years ago. “It’s all in there,” he says simply as he makes his way out the door.

Click here for full story: Sting of the Wasp: The Cuban Five Connection

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Send this to ten of your friends (not mutual). then we can reach 5,000 this week only!  NOW is the time to make a difference.

Click Here!

Thank you,

Vivien Lesnik Weisman

]]> http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/please-sign-this-petition/feed/ New Trailer for The Man of Two Havanas http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/new-trailer-for-the-man-of-two-havanas/ http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/new-trailer-for-the-man-of-two-havanas/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:55:20 +0000 Vivien http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/?p=335 New Trailer

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I made this video to support my friends Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin and all the ladies in pink in their colossal effort to end the war in iraq ( and PLEEEEEZZZE PREZ Obama stop talking about going into Afghanistan) and expose the terrorist living amongst. Join Code Pink Now!

]]> http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/code-pinks-most-wanted/feed/ In Chiapas near San Cristobal de las Casas http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/in-chiapas-near-san-cristobal-de-las-casas/ http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/in-chiapas-near-san-cristobal-de-las-casas/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:12:36 +0000 Vivien http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/?p=328 We are Here teaching a taller , that means seminar in filmmaking at a really wonderful university called the Intercultural University where they speak 15 , yes 15 !!!! Mayan languages and thankfully espanol too ! Frank Hochuil produced the whole thing, brought us over with a panasonic 24p , computers equipped with final cut  and  a great filmmaker Tao Ruspoli who taught camera and editing . Check out his films at www.mangustalafco.com . He is really great … and the teacher here who inspired us  Luis Morales is chiapanesco by conviction as he says .  Next post will be the short the students made. See for yourself , Vivien

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]]> http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/obamanos/feed/ The Man of Two Havanas Honored in Paris and Vancouver! http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/the-man-of-two-havanas-honored-in-paris-and-vancouver/ http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/the-man-of-two-havanas-honored-in-paris-and-vancouver/#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:33:13 +0000 Vivien http://www.manoftwohavanas.com/?p=307 I am so happy to annouce that The Man of Two Havanas was the proud recipient of THREE awards this month.

From Canada to France, I was all over the world screening my film in October. After the wonderful reception I received in Miami, I was thrilled to take my film to Vancouver, Canada for the Vancouver International Latino Film Festival, where we won The Audience Award.  Then it was off to Paris, France for the Festival Internacional du Cinema Latin de Paris where the film won TWO awards: Grand Prix Documentary  AND Grand Prix Signis. Very exciting!

Happy Halloween!

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Watch Elliot Rodriguez and u will know why
xxx viv

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