Mar 09 2010
Miami Adult Entertainment: ‘Kiddo’ takes a walk on Havana’s dark side
The 90-minute feature, which depicts male prostitution and judicial and police corruption in Havana, is also unusual in that its opening credits immediately identify it as a joint Cuba-Miami-Islas Canarias production. The Miami angle comes via producer Iohamil Navarro, who has lived here since 2007. The film is characterized by Cremata and the producers as an independent production even though some technical support was provided by Cuba’s official Film Industry Institute, ICAIC.
“The movie was made with almost no resources,” says Cremata, whose previous movies Nada and Viva Cuba were shown at the Miami festival in 2005 and 2006. “But I had the support of a lot of people who did not charge a cent — the musicians, the actors — and we filmed the entire movie during the dawn hours in 10 consecutive days.”
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Miguel turns out to be the son of a judge who ventures out at night looking for male prostitutes, and that night he runs into Karel, and they negotiate a date. Meanwhile, the policeman on the case, whose girlfriend is La Chupi, also hustles the attractive Karel.