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90 Miles is a 2001 documentary film written and directed by Juan Carlos Zaldívar. The film is a recounting of the events that lead Zaldívar to become a Marielito and leave Cuba for a better life in Miami. It premiered in 2003 on PBS as part of its P.O.V. series. It won the award for Best Documentary at the New York International Latino Film Festival and it won two awards at the Havana Film Festival also known in Spanish as Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana in Havana, Cuba in 2001: the Black Coral, First Prize, for Best Documentary and the Memoria Documentary Award (which was a joint win with Cuando lo pequeño se hace grande (2000 film)|Cuando lo pequeño se hace grande). 90 Miles was also awarded the Media History Award by the Wolfson family Media History Ce