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a scheduled blackout and so on, the tourism is decimated there.

And it's a city that is heavily dependent on tourism.

So because of that, then the kind of hustle is strong with regards to tourism and tourists that are there.

There's a lack of food.

There's a lack of fuel.

There's a lack of running water because if you haven't got electricity to pump the water, then the water is not going to come into the house.

And I think that the situation in Cuba, it's not black and white.

You know, from an ideological point of view, it's easy to kind of look at Cuba and be like, it's a beacon of a different model of society.

And...

for someone who can be critical of the model of society that we're a part of in terms of how it exploits people and how the wealthy have became more wealthy and the poor people have become more poor in recent years.

And if you look at the homelessness crisis,

in Ireland and so on then it's easy to look at Cuba and be like oh well they're doing something very differently they've got socialism there where there's more accessible healthcare more accessible education and so on but I think it's important not to leave it at that not to look at it as black and white because there are as you mentioned other issues going on in Cuba and it's important to hear from people on the ground about what they feel and what they're experiencing and that's where the complexity comes into it and

And I felt the exact same thing.

We spent a week there and went and met as many people as we could.

And the more time we spent there, the more questions we had.

We're still trying to make sense of the notes that we took and go back over the meetings that we had with people and try and get something coherent out of it.

So we can kind of see how things are sitting over there.

But yeah, it was definitely an eye-opening experience for sure.

brilliant and what's next what have you got coming up that's a good question so we've been working on a feature length documentary for the last five or six years in Palestine haven't really said anything about it publicly because we've just been working on it in the background but we're coming up towards the end point in that in the next couple of weeks so

I'm hoping to get that finished and get it out there.