From the capital city of Havana to the beautiful seaport of
Santiago de Cuba, you will marvel at the forbidden natural beauty
of Cuba. Travel to the Pinar del Rio and visit the lush
fields that produce the most sought-after cigars in the world.
See sugar ations and colorful towns unfold before your eyes,
then walk the beaches of Matanzas and Cubas colorful coastline.
Cuban people welcome visitors with open arms, and their blend of
cultures overflow with a friendly and easy-going hospitality.
Finally, after 60 years, visitors can experience the splendor of
the Caribbean only 90 miles south of the United States. Soon,
Cuba will compete with the Bahamas and Jamaica as the Caribbean
vacation destination for Americans. See it all today before you
leave!
About the Actor
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Marlin Darrah is the executive director of
International Film & Video (IFV), an award-winning production
company based in the U.S. Over the course of Darrah s adventurous
thirty-year career, more than fifty travel-adventure companies,
educational organizations, and universities have contracted his
producing, directing and shooting talents. Assignments and
productions have taken him to more than 130 countries around the
world. Darrah is particularly skilled at documenting unusual and
intriguing cultural and geographical subjects. Darrah has been
described as one of North America s most experienced and
recognized producers of international video programs and stock
footage. His company, IFV maintains a unique stock library,
featuring 2000+ hours of pristine and original worldwide footage.
in both high definition and standard definition formats, all
footage is available to television industry producers and
educational organizations for either limited-use or royalty-free
licensing purposes. PRODUCTION SUMMARY: Marathon, Darrah's first
16mm film, examined the drama of the Olympic Trials Marathon and
won critical accl in the sports world. The film attracted the
attention of Runner's World magazine in San Francisco. For three
years, Marlin produced several films for the magazine, one of
which, Moments of the Runner, was a finalist in the American Film
Festival in NY. For that film, Darrah footage throughout the
U.S., as well as in Moscow, and at the site of the first Olympic
Games in Greece. In addition to his work with Runner's World,
Darrah also produced NIKE's first film. In the early 1980s,
Darrah traveled to many regions of India to shoot 16mm footage
for two documentary programs. He traveled to India more than a
dozen times from 1982 2002. Also during the 1980s, Darrah was
contracted by a Seattle company, Society Expeditions, to film
such countries and locations as Morocco, Senegal, the , New
Guinea, Indonesia, Singapore, Burma, Yemen, Jordan, Egypt, and
the icy continent, Antarctica. He produced several
travel-adventure films describing those parts of the world. From
1982-2006, Darrah and directed documentaries and travel
programs in more than 130 countries worldwide, for more than 50
international companies. His clients have included National
Geographic, PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and
The History Channel. He has worked with such companies as Nature
Expeditions International, Exploration Cruise Lines, Royal Viking
Line, Holland America, International Expeditions TRAVCOA,
Cultural Folk Tours International, TraveLearn, Eco-Expeditions,
World Explorer Cruises, Varig Brazilian Airlines, Garuda
Airlines, Federal Express, Lost World Adventures and the Univ. of
Virginia s Semester at Sea program. In 2005 Darrah directed and
a documentary television mini-series in Egypt for probable
broadcast on the History Channel. For 2007-08, Darrah has been
co-producing and will direct and shoot a docudrama set in Saudi
Arabia. Darrah also recently completed a 7-part, 7-hour DVD
series, World s Most Exotic Places. Profiled are Central & South
America, New Guinea, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
EDI/Marathon, Inc. has distributed 20,000+ copies of the series
throughout N. America to libraries and through direct VHS/DVD
sales to the public. Darrah recently co-wrote, directed, and
co-produced in SE Asia his first dramatic feature-length movie,
Monsoon Wife. The movie was completed in September 2004 and has
been a finalist or winner at more than a dozen international film
festivals. The movie is about love, betrayal, and redemption in
exotic and almost lawless Cambodia. Monsoon Wife is the first
ever American-produced feature film to be entirely in
Cambodia.