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Print this article Garcia's Lost City to Screen at AFI Fest (released 10/6/2005) By Douglas Lorah Miami Beach's Andy Garcia will screen Lost City at AFI Fest 2005 which runs November 3-13 in Hollywood, California. Garcia co-wrote, directed, and stars in the film which was shot in the Dominican Republic in the summer of 2004. Alongside Garcia are actors Inés Sastre, Bill Murray, Dustin Hoffman, Nestor Carbonell, and Steven Bauer. Bauer is also a native of Miami and, like Garcia, was born in Cuba. Both were seen together at this year's Miami Interntational Film Festival. About the Film During the Cuban Revolution of 1958-59, the three brothers of the Fellove family are ruined—brother Luis supports Castro as a clandestine terrorist and is killed by the forces of Batista; brother Ricardo joins Castro's forces as a freedom fighter and kills himself when he realizes that Castro is just another power-hungry dictator; and wary brother Fico, a nightclub entrepreneur, stays apolitical during the Revolution and sees his life's work confiscated by Castro's puritanical and acquisitive goons. Digg this article

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Garcia's Lost City to Screen at AFI Fest
(released 10/6/2005)
By Douglas Lorah

Miami Beach's Andy Garcia will screen Lost City at AFI Fest 2005 which runs November 3-13 in Hollywood, California. Garcia co-wrote, directed, and stars in the film which was shot in the Dominican Republic in the summer of 2004.

Alongside Garcia are actors Inés Sastre, Bill Murray, Dustin Hoffman, Nestor Carbonell, and Steven Bauer. Bauer is also a native of Miami and, like Garcia, was born in Cuba. Both were seen together at this year's Miami Interntational Film Festival.

About the Film
During the Cuban Revolution of 1958-59, the three brothers of the Fellove family are ruined—brother Luis supports Castro as a clandestine terrorist and is killed by the forces of Batista; brother Ricardo joins Castro's forces as a freedom fighter and kills himself when he realizes that Castro is just another power-hungry dictator; and wary brother Fico, a nightclub entrepreneur, stays apolitical during the Revolution and sees his life's work confiscated by Castro's puritanical and acquisitive goons.

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