The film
Santiago de Cuba, 1917. A mayor's son grows up between the mountains and the sea, and is on a boat out of the bay by sixteen. Thirty years later his name is on two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and the company he built is making television the networks said could not be made.
His story was never allowed to reach the island he came from — his shows stopped airing there after 1959, and the connection between Cuba and its exiles was deliberately severed. This film is a homecoming and a tribute, not a correction. It honours Desi, Lucille Ball, and their children Lucie and Desi Jr. as inseparable parts of one legacy.
How it was made
Researched, sourced, written, scored, narrated, illustrated and edited with Fenris. The only human input was direction.
The archival photographs and footage are real and in the public domain — Wikimedia Commons, the UCLA Library / Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, and the Internet Archive. The period imagery is generated. Nothing puts words in Desi Arnaz's mouth, and no synthetic version of him appears.
Details
- RuntimeEnglish 14:30 · Español 15:13
- LanguagesEnglish narration with optional Spanish subtitles · Spanish narration with optional English subtitles
- Research & scriptFenris
- ScoreAI-generated for Wolf Pak Strategies
- NarrationFenris — AI-generated voice
- Period imageryGenerated with Fenris — no real person depicted
- ArchivalWikimedia Commons · UCLA Library / Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, CC BY 4.0 · Internet Archive
- Produced byWolf Pak Strategies LLC