The 25-minute film, shot in 2020, tells a little-known story of the troubadour Silvio Rodriguez, who, speaking in the first person, recounts a life-defining experience at the age of 14, when he enrolled to join the youth brigades participating in the 1961 National Literacy Campaign in Cuba, during which he taught a peasant family to read and write.

The film, produced by Maestra Productions, La Rueda Films, and the Martin Luther King Memorial Center in Havana, will be presented this Saturday afternoon in the aforementioned Colombian city by filmmaker Catherine Murphy in conversation with musician and singer-songwriter Jimmi Pineda and cultural manager Alejandro Baron.

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