This film does an admirable job of presenting Cuban musical traditions in this documentary around a three-day event at Brown University in 2015. The juxtaposition of the injection and import of musicians and music from Cuba into the (as portrayed) somewhat unlikely environment of an Ivy League school in Rhode Island is a theme that is a repeated subtext of the documentary.
The interest in, and enthusiasm for, the music by Brown university students in 2015 is legitimate and appreciated -- and certainly justified -- but the documentary does seem to subliminally imply that this program at Brown that resulted in the concert is somehow unique and on the vanguard of the discovery and introduction of Cuban music in the U. S. This may be the case for a new generation of young college students in 2015 attending Brown from places and traditions where Cuban music was not frequently encountered, but it is clearly not the case vis-a-vis the history of the huge influence that this musical tradition has had on so many musical genres and forms in the U. S. for over half a century. The documentary does a good job in fact of referencing that history, so the previous observation is not meant to suggest that this history was ignored -- only that the 2015 concert at Brown is portrayed as some kind of seminal breakthrough in the uptake of Cuban music when this had been occurring outside of Providence, Rhode Island for decades around the U. S.
Nonetheless, it was great to see the musicians, and hear the music, and even have the obligatory interviews with musicologists interspersed in the direction of the film (which was well done).
I would conclude only by saying that it would have been good to have had a broader scope than *just* Cuban musicians -- as worthy of exposure as they are -- simply because not including the subsequent creative evolution and innovation of this musical tradition by current Puerto Rican artists made the cultural focus of the documentary too narrow and restricted. I would encourage those at Brown who are continuing to develop this cultural program to broaden its scope to include Puerto Rico.
All in all, great to see and hear the musicians and the music.