Two of three Cuban featured in the Tribeca Film Festival entry Una Noche disappeared after their plane from Cuba landed in Miami. The three had been expected to travel to New York but Anailin de la Rua de la Torre and Javier Nunez Florian stayed in Miami, according to the third actor Dariel Arrechada. “I’m here alone in New York,” Arrechada told the Huffington Post. The movie is about three Cuban teenagers who try to
escape Communist-ruled Cuba. Arrechada said he does not know where his co-stars are and plans to return to Cuba after the festval when his visa expires “in a few days.” All three are 20 years old. This is the “First time out of Cuba to the US!” for any of the Cuban-born actors, the film’s director Lucy Mulloy tweeted in late March. “I really was thinking that they were going to come here and enjoy the festival, and I thought they would love to participate in it,” Mulloy said. “They made a decision, I guess.”


I’m gonna guess those two actors will not be returning to Cuba anytime soon. They got to Miami and will soon be living there.
Run for it, kids! Be free!
Corre por ella, los niños. ¡Sé Libre!
Maybe they showed The Sound of Music on the plane!
Escape communist rule or attend press junket? Must have been a very difficult choice.
I’m slightly confused. The actors who fled are now illegal immigrants?
They are not illegal immigrants, they are refugees seeking asylum from the communist island nation. The US has a policy stating that if a Cuban national sets one foot on dry US soil, they can claim amnesty and become a US resident. It’s called the Wet Foot/Dry Foot Policy.
Thanks Hans, had no clue about that policy!
US has a wet foot dry foot policy towards Cuban immigrants. If they make it to the US they are here to stay, if they are captured in the water, even if it is just off US shores, they are returned to Cuba.
Unless you’re Elian Gonzalez, in which case you’re seized in a commando raid and returned to the island workers’ paradise.
I was just thinking that. Poor Elian made it all the way from Cuba, but couldn’t escape the do-gooder Media.
He was a child returned to his father after his mother died.
They may show up on one of the morning shows tomorow.
Won’t they miss that great Cuban healthcare?
No, they’re about to have the great Cuban healthcare, here in the states!
-RnsW
Great,
Let’s give them benefits and free education notwithstanding the fact that this country is broke.
They are applying for political asylum. No one will find them.
Yeah, because you know who tends to take more than they give? Immigrants fleeing repression. Man, they’re so lazy and uneducated what with their actual first hand knowledge of big government and love of freedom.
Go home, refugees from tyranny! We’re full up here. Now, back to the next episode of American Idol…
Rake the only uneducated one here is you. These kids are only 20 years old, they are asking for asylum not welfare. They have been invited to participate in the Tribeca Film Festival because of their work. I wouldn’t call then lazy. They have achieved more than most at that age and that’s coming from a repressed country, imagine what they can achieve in a free one. Read the US Census on Cubans in this country. Maybe you can learn something. Most cubans are political refugees, not economical. They come searching for freedom. If you are not an native american indian or jewish, then your family either came as slaves or economical reasons. The only thing we are full of here, is ignorant people that think no one else has the right to be free.
You got it all wrong, immigrants give more than they take. Ask your ancestors.
Letsstopthisstuffalready, great! Let’s blame the immigrants for our country’s bankruptcy and our healthcare systems a failure.
Letsstopthisstuffaready and Rake, I assume you were both born and ignorantly brought up believing that white people naturally inhabited the land we call America. We are all immigrants you imbecile. And if someone is fairly given legal status in ones country then they too should be technically as useful and rightful of living and occupying this country as much as your own pewee head.
and btw, everyone knows immigrants are the hardest working and struggling people in America. next time your eating your little friday’s potato skins, check out the hands that made them for you in the kitchen and those breaking their backs cultivating them little potatoes for you in the farm.