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Havana Divas

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Havana Divas

Originally produced by Women Make Movies in 2018

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Stage-sisters Caridad Amaran and Georgina Wong, both of Chinese descent, learned the art of Cantonese opera from their fathers in Havana, Cuba in the 1930s. Caridad's Chinese foster father immigrated to Cuba in the 1920s after his family forbade him to perform opera. Georgina's father was a famous tailor in a Havana Chinatown, who encouraged her to learn kung-fu and traditional Chinese dance. The daughters spent their youth performing throughout Havana and among other notable singers until their lives were changed by Fidel Castro's revolution. In their golden years, the two sisters attempt to revive Cantonese opera in a worn-out Cuban Chinatown and, together, make a new wish: to return to their fathers' Chinese homelands to pay their respects

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