Havana Motor Club Tells a Compelling Story

Havana Motor Club Film-maker, Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt is our next guest on Fan4Racing Fan2Fan NASCAR & Race Talk on Monday, March 31, 2014 at 9 pm ET.  Call 347-996-5176 during the LIVE broadcast to interact with Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and our Fan4Racing panel. 

Photo - Courtesy HavanaMotorClub.com

Photo – Courtesy HavanaMotorClub.com

Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt

A Brooklyn-based filmmaker, he co-directed and edited DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL (Samuel Goldwyn Films, 2012).  He directed and produced LUMO (POV, 2007), a documentary that won a Student Academy Award and was broadcast on PBS.  He served as the co-producer and additional editor of CONTROL ROOM (Magnolia Pictures, 2004), and the associate editor of VALENTINO: THE LAST EMPEROR (Acolyte Films, 2008).  He wrote, directed and produced LES VULNERABLES (Perlmutt Productions, 2007), the closing night short of the New York FF and a grand jury prize-winner at AFI Dallas. He also edited and field-produced MAN V. VOLCANO (Market Road Films, 2011) for National Geographic Explorer.

Havana Motor Club Tells a Compelling Story

Havana Motor Club tells a personal, character-driven story about Cuba’s vibrant community of underground drag racers and their quest to hold Cuba’s first official car race since the Revolution. It tackles how Cuba’s recent reforms — the owning of property, allowance of small businesses, and greater exchange between Cubans, Cuban Americans, tourists, and other foreigners — have affected the lives of these racers and their families. One racer enlists the help of a Cuban American patron in Miami to smuggle in parts for his modern car. His main competitor is a renowned mechanic who uses ingenuity rather than resources to create a racing monster. Another racer ponders whether he will participate in the race or sell his motor — one that he recovered on the ocean floor from a ship used to smuggle Cubans off the island — in order to flee Cuba on a raft headed to Florida. Through the eyes of these racers and their community, HAVANA MOTOR CLUB explores how Cuba is changing today.

Havana Motor Club Trailer

Havana Motor Club Trailer from Gloss Studio on Vimeo.