Project Summary
How Bert Schneider, a well-heeled Hollywood producer with a coke problem and a soft spot for radical politics, smuggled Huey Newton, the leader of the Black Panthers who was awaiting trial on a murder charge, into Cuba in 1974. Schneider, set up a movie built around Newton called The Cigar. He never intended to make the movie, but it provided Newton the cover he needed to get himself and his girlfriend at the time out of the country.
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Cast & Crew
Directing
| Director | Don Cheadle |
| 1st AD | Nicole Burke |
Production
| Line Producer | Dan Kaplow |
| Producer | Joshua Davis |
| Producer | Arthur Spector |
| Producer | Janine Sherman Barrois |
| Producer | Joshuah Bearman |
Writing
| Writer | Jim Hecht |
Cast
| Cast | André Holland" |
Casting
| Casting Director | Leah Daniels-Butler |
Contact details for each person are available to members.
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