Directed by Catherine Murphy | Documentary | 2020 | United States and Cuba | 25 mins. | Spanish w/ English subtitles
Global music icon Silvio Rodríguez recounts his coming-of-age story as a 14-year-old volunteer teacher on the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign, where he taught a rural campesino family how to read and write and learned many important lessons in the process.
This film is wonderful content for educators, public libraries, high schools, universities, and community colleges. It is especially good for discussing the importance of literacy, education, and service. Good for classes and projects that are cultivating bilingualism. Great for teaching subject areas of Spanish, Service Learning, Latin American history, Ethnnomusicology, Peace Studies, Literacy Studies, and Education Studies.