• 2012
  • 34m
Maestra

Summary Cuba, 1961: Thousands of teenage girls join the National Campaign for Literacy to help teach their country to read and write. Traveling to remote mountain regions, often against the will of their parents, they lived with their students for up to one year, teaching at night and on weekends. Over 700,000 illiterate adults learned to read & write that year. And the young teachers lives would never be the same... View more details

  • 2012
  • 34m

Maestra

Directed : Catherine Murphy

Written : Eve Goldberg

Stars : Alice Walker Diana Balboa Norma Guillard Gina Rey

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Genres : History Biography Documentary Short

Release date : Mar 14, 2012

Countries of origin : United States Cuba

Official sites : Official site Official website

Language : Spanish

Filming locations : Havana, Cuba

Production companies : Literacy Project The Literacy Project Tres Musas Productions

Summary Cuba, 1961: Thousands of teenage girls join the National Campaign for Literacy to help teach their country to read and write. Traveling to remote mountain regions, often against the will of their parents, they lived with their students for up to one year, teaching at night and on weekends. Over 700,000 illiterate adults learned to read & write that year. And the young teachers lives would never be the same... View more details

Details

Genres : History Biography Documentary Short

Release date : Mar 14, 2012

Countries of origin : United States Cuba

Official sites : Official site Official website

Language : Spanish

Filming locations : Havana, Cuba

Production companies : Literacy Project The Literacy Project Tres Musas Productions

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Catherine Murphy in Maestra (2012) Catherine Murphy, Norma Guillard, and Gina Rey at an event for Maestra (2012)
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