During the Cuban Footsteps project, filmmaker and director Ross McDermott documented the work of Sam Abell, Cig Harvey, Abelardo Morell, Mark Klett and Greg Gorman. The resulting documentary brings together five unique visions of Cuba’s complex and transforming cultural landscape. McDermott intertwines Evans’s pre-Castro Cuba with the busy streets of Havana and the countryside of Viñales. From the quick yet studied street-style photography of Sam Abell to the uncommon camera-obscura practices of Abelardo Morell, these master photographers reinterpret Cuba for the 21st century.

Return to Cuba has been submitted to over 20 national and international film festivals for 2016.

Director - Ross McDermott
Executive Producer - Skip Klein
Motion Graphics and Art - Dimitri Salonikios
Sound Engineering - Abel Okugawa 

 
 

Five world-renowned photographers travel to Cuba just weeks before the historic U.S.-Cuba reconciliation in 2014. Retracing the footsteps of legendary photographer Walker Evans, they reinvent his iconic 1930s images at a new historical tipping point. Director Ross McDermott intertwines Evans’s pre-Castro Cuba with the busy streets of Havana and the countryside of Viñales. From the quick yet studied street-style photography of Sam Abell to the uncommon camera-obscura practices of Abelardo Morell, these master photographers reinterpret Cuba for the 21st century. This colorful documentary brings together five unique visions of Cuba’s complex and transforming cultural landscape. Director - Ross McDermott Executive Producer - Skip Klein Motion Graphics and Art - Dimitri Salonikios Sound Engineering - Abel Okugawa