About the film
90 Miles is a 2001 documentary film written and directed by Juan Carlos Zaldívar. The film is a recounting of the events that lead Zaldívar to become a Marielito and leave Cuba for a better life in Miami. It premiered in 2003 on PBS as part of its P.O.V. series.
It won the award for Best Documentary at the New York International Latino Film Festival and it won two awards at the Havana Film Festival also known in Spanish as Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana in Havana, Cuba in 2001: the Black Coral, First Prize, for Best Documentary and the Memoria Documentary Award. 90 Miles was also awarded the Media History Award by the Wolfson family Media History Center in Miami, Florida that year. 90 Miles recounts the strange twist of fate that took Juan Carlos Zaldívar across one of the world's most treacherous stretches of water.
It is a journey of a family in search for healing and understanding. IndieWire called 90 miles "Probing and thoughtful." Zaldívar uncovers the emotional distance opened in thousands of families by the 90 miles between the U.S. and Cuba.
From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).