The Daily Heller: Soon to Be an 'American Master' … – PRINT Magazine

The Daily Heller: Soon to Be an 'American Master' … – PRINT Magazine

April will mark the first PBS “American Masters” broadcast of Mecky Creus and Adrienne Hall’s Freedom is a Verb, a short documentary about artist Edel Rodriguez’s journey and work (see the trailer here). The film focuses on Rodriguez’s bestselling visual memoir of young life in—and treacherous escape from—Castro’s Cuba. In it he recalls the harrowing Mariel boatlift, the mass emigration of Cubans who were on the last boats from Mariel Harbor to …