Samuel Fabbri, an Italian tourist guide and former boxeur who has been living in Cuba for 30 years, in 2011 decided to change the fate of an abandoned building in Havana and launching there a boxing gym with social purposes. In 2024, the Italian director Cristiano Regina decided to tell the story of his dream, in one of the toughest periods of the recent Cuban history.
Cristiano Regina (Naples, 1977) is an Italian documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. In 2009 he founded Voice Off, a local NGO that deals with audiovisual productions and participatory workshops. He worked with political refugees, second-generation teenagers, Serbian and Cameroonian youth, the elderly and the disabled people. His previous film, "Baladi - This is my village", shot in Palestine in 2018 premiered at Visioni dal Mondo Festival 2019. "Boxeo Havana Social Club" is his latest documentary.
Boxeo Havana Social Club is an Articolture (Italy), Fractal (Spain) and GatoRosa Films (Cuba) production, made possible by the support of Creative Europe MEDIA Slate, Ibermedia production fund, Emilia-Romagna Film Commission support in Italy, ICEC support in Spain and ICAIC support in Cuba.
Thanks to these funds, the documentary is going to be shot in Havana on March 2024, with the aim of being released by the end of 2024.
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