Five years ago, a documentary titled Café con Leche gave a face to an emerging group of Cuban-Americans who came to be known as "Generation ñ." Now, director Joe Cardona digs deeper into the Cuban-American Mosaic with this follow up to the acclaimed 1997 documentary.

While Café con Leche revealed a generation coming to grips with its identity, Café con Leche 2, helps dispel some of the myths by examining events and conditions surrounding Cuban-Americans today. Difficult issues such as travel to Cuba, Cuban artists performing in Miami and the Elian Gonzalez episode, are fairly presented in order to contextualize today’s Cuban-American reality.

Concerned with what he terms as “lack of depth in coverage” of the Cuban community, Cardona set out to show the tapestry that depicts exiles today. A WPBT production, Café con Leche 2 examines varying tonalities of opinions as a cross section of Cuban-Americans (male, female, black, white, straight, gay, marielitos, balseros, and those born on U.S. soil) address many of this community’s “controversial” issues.

In the end, Cardona says he wound up with a “gumbo of Cubania” (Cubanity), the Cuban Miami he’s lived in nearly his entire life. Interviews conducted with Cuban- Americans such as Jorge Mursuli, Lissette Mendez, Salvador Longoria, Liz Balmaseda, Tomas Diaz, Raul Martinez, rapper Pitbull and Omar Lopez-Montenegro illustrate with great candor the thoughts and sentiments of Cuban-Americans as they attempt to make sense of the past and look ahead to the future.

Joe Cardona, the director of acclaimed documentaries, such as ¿Adiós Patria?, Café con Leche, Havana:Portrait of Yesteryear, The Flight of Pedro Pan, Nuestra Risa and José Martí: Legacy of Freedom, produced and directed Café con Leche 2.

In the last several years, Channel 2 has reached out to South Florida’s Hispanic audience with a variety of meaningful, relevant documentaries and performance programs. Channel 2 has distinguished itself both locally and nationally by creating a series of programs that accurately and poignantly captures the Cuban-American experience. Beginning in the 1970s with ¿Qué Pasa, USA?, Channel 2 has produced programs that have touched generations of Cuban-Americans throughout the country. Now, Channel 2 brings an essential addition to the series, Café con Leche 2. With this new documentary, WPBT Channel 2, continues to honor its commitment to produce and broadcast programs that celebrate the cultural richness of our community.