Our Latin Thing | |
Director: | Leon Gast |
Producer: | Larry Harlow Jerry Masucci |
Music: | The Fania All-Stars, under the musical direction of Johnny Pacheco |
Cinematography: | Ted Churchill Steven Harris Thomas Reichman Burleigh Wartes |
Studio: | Fania Records |
Distributor: | A&R Film Distributors |
Our Latin Thing (Spanish; Castilian: '''Nuestra Cosa Latina''') was a 1972 documentary film directed by Leon Gast about the burgeoning Latin music scene in New York City.[1] It focused on a concert put together by the management of Fania Records at Manhattan's Cheetah nightclub featuring a group of Fania artists called the Fania All-Stars. The film was distributed by A&R Film Distributors[2] headed by Alex Masucci, Fania Records founder Jerry Masucci's younger brother and subsequent Fania Records Vice President,[3] and Ray Aviles.