CUBA SCALDS HIS HAND

CUBA SCALDS HIS HAND
Directed by ABBY SUN & DANIEL GARBER / 2019 / 4 min

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His name is Naudy Exposito, but while working in the overwhelmingly white Wyoming rodeo circuit, everyone calls him Cuba. A kinetic and humorous glimpse of a man just trying to do his job, the film rides along with Cuba, who fits the rodeo cowboy stereotype no better than he fits into his ill-fated Japanese mini-truck. After a sudden injury, Cuba’s masculine dreams collide with the reality that even the most undignified accidents can be quite painful.

Abby Sun is a filmmaker, programmer, and writer, currently working as the curator for the DocYard, a biweekly series of nonfiction films at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA. She has bylines in Film Comment, Filmmaker Magazine, Hyperallergic, and MUBI's Notebook, and has served on panels for the NEA, SFFILM, CAAM, the IDA’s Getting Real conference, and other filmmaker funding and support organizations. Abby is on the advisory board for SVLLY(wood) and previously was a programmer for True/False and Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival.

Daniel Garber is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Most recently, he edited Lance Oppenheim's Some Kind of Heaven, which premiered at Sundance 2020 as the only documentary in NEXT. Previously, he edited and co-produced Daniel Goldhaber & Isa Mazzei's techno-thriller CAM and received a Cinema Eye Honors nomination for his work as an editor on Sierra Pettengill & Pacho Velez's all-archival feature documentary The Reagan Show. His work has played at numerous film festivals including Tribeca, Rotterdam, Locarno, AFI FEST, BFI London, Fantastic Fest, True/False, SFFILM, Maryland, and BAMcinemafest.