October 12, 2012

Sneak Peak: New Anti Cuban Embargo Screenplay "Fidel's Story"

SYNOPSIS

This low budget production is in two 45 minute acts with three scenes per act. Sets are: Harpo green room; A stage set for an infomercial (multimedia backdrop optional) overlapped with a two chair interview set with cameras.

Fidel Castro has agreed to do an interview in Chicago at Harpo Studios with Oprah conducting the first part (act one) and Christiane Amanpour conducting the second part (act two). Fidel has three conditions for the interview 1) That he be given up to five minutes to answer each question uninterrupted with no follow up. 2) That every third question be asked from the live audience. 3) That the first five minutes of each of the two segments be a presenter sharing facts on Cuba. Initially the networks balk at this as it seems a commercial promotion for Cuba, yet when Fidel agrees to allow the networks to verify the facts presented, the networks agree.

Fidel's goal is to share Cuba's perspective of historical events in the hope that the American people will flex their muscle and change a misguided and largely ineffective policy. Cuba policy has been framed by right wing expatriate Cubans who fled Cuba with the dictator Batista, they champion pro embargo and travel restrictions to Cuba. However, with the Internet we Americans are learning that the International observer's opinions of US - Cuba history are quite different than the tall tale we have been fed. Fidel's goal is to move US opinion from the exclusionary current position to a more centrist International view through this interview.

This is a hot topic full of controversy and the screenplay reflects this with many interruptions from the rabid right. The questions are hard hitting and pointed, and Fidel patiently and politely answers them all. The English version is complete, and the Spanish version will follow. The two productions have different audiences, one in the US/ Canada and the other Latin American capitals.

FULL SCREENPLAY HERE:

http://www.juntoboxfilms.com/projects/fidel-s-story-a-screenplay-for-theater-film#.UHhfMsXA_0c

October 12, 2012

US Customs And Border Patrol Kill 16 Year Old Boy In Nogales, Sonora Mexico

Source: Nogales International

1) How exactly did the boys get up the big hill and back over the massive wall to Mexico? The reports say all this was witnessed, and as I see it (based on the report) one can't exactly "flee" back to Mexico when faced with a substantial wall, unless of course they built a massive ramp, dug a tunnel under the concrete foundation, used an acetylene torch to cut a hole, or set a new pole vault record.

2) Why was the boy shot on the Mexican side? Twelve bullet holes in a wall behind him? Logic seems to tell me that anytime there is gun fire, anyone throwing rocks "flees" rather than stays to face a bullet, so why not fire over his head?

3) He was shot eight times? In the back an head? This is troubling to say the least. But what is even more troubling is the fact that anyone who fired a shot from the other side would be to climb the fifty foot sheer hill on the US side, press their nose against the twenty foot wall and fire down fifty feet to the street level to a location that would not be visible to anyone not next to the US side of the wall. A random shot from a substantial distance from the wall on the US side could not have killed the boy.

4) Eye witnesses state that four boys arrived on the scene and began throwing rocks. This is also difficult
to swallow as all four would have had to scale the fifty foot hill, get to the slits to throw accurately. These same wall would have protected the officers. Should the four boys have been throwing rocks from the street level over the 50 ft hill, over the 20 foot wall fighting gravity, I doubt Nolan Ryan could not have hit an officer. That officer of course as i stated would have had to be on the US side and up the hill. Why would an officer be within five feet of the wall endangering himself for a suspect who had already fled to Mexico?

Read more: http://rivr.sulekha.com/us-customs-and-border-patrol-kill-16-year-old-boy-in-nogales-sonora-mexico_594070_blog

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5) The boys would have had to negotiate not just the 20 ft wall but the 50 ft steep hill to return to Mexico, and remember the bundles. Scaling a fifty foot hill, climbing a twenty foot fence takes time especially carrying bundles. According to the story and reports the Nogales Arizona police department witnessed this whole whopper of a tale. After the scaling the boys would have to scale back down the Mexican side, jump fifty feet to the street or repeal to the street, cross it, where the sixteen year old is finally shot eight times.

6) Those eight shots plus the twelve holes i counted at the scene make 20. Exactly what type of service revolver (side arm) fires a clip of 20 shots? From my cheap seats emptying a 20 round clip, (assuming there is one) suggests murder, not self defense. Particularly when the only way to make those twenty shots is to have your nose against the wall, or be within five feet of it.