Silvio Rodriguez: My First Calling
25 mins | Documentary | US/Cuba | 2020
The little-known story of Cuban songwriter Silvio Rodriguez, speaking in first person about the life-defining experience he had at 14-years-old when he signed up to join the youth brigades of the 1961 Literacy Campaign and taught a campesino family how to read and write.
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Produced by The Literacy Project, Martin Luther King Memorial Center and La Rueda Films
Directed by Catherine Murphy
Producers: Josue Garcia, Ana Laura Pereira, Angel Piedra
Cinematographer: Roberto Chile
Editor: Daniel Diez Jr.
Music: Silvio Rodriguez, Aldo Lopez-Gavilán
Educator Resources and Study Guide
Bibliography / Bibliografía
Silvio Rodríguez y El Movimiento de La Nueva Trova Cubana
Español | Por Micaela Ovelar Márquez
Discography / Discografía
Discography Silvio Rodríguez
English | By Micaela Ovelar Márquez
Silvio Rodríguez Discografía
Español | Por Johan Misler y Lauren Pardo
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