Tribeca All Access® 2004
Robert M. Young, one of our foremost independent filmmakers, has an award-wining body of work that includes documentaries and features films, including Nothing But A Man and Caught. Mr. Young’s awards include Cannes’ Camera d’Or an Emmy, a Peabody and an Academy Award Nomination for Children Of Fate, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Mr. Young has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and has received San Sebastian’s Golden Concha for Best Film, Cuba’s Golden Coral for Best Film, Venice’s Primo San Georgio, The City of Venice Prize and two George Polk Memorial Awards for Journalism. Mr. Young’s most recent feature, Below The Belt, premiered at Sundance in January to rave reviews.
Manteca is the tragic true story of Afro-Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo, who alongside Dizzy Gillespie and helped innovate Latin Jazz.