Last Update: 5/30/2006 9:06:43 AM

HAVANA (AP) - A Cuban-American filmmaker is expressing his disdain for the long-standing U-S trade and travel restrictions against Cuba in a movie that was screened in Miami Beach last year.

Days after Luis Moro's "Love and Suicide" was shown at the American Black Film Festival in Miami Beach in July, the U-S Treasury Department notified Moro his trip to Cuba to shoot the film was being investigated.

Federal officials say the department can impose fines of up to 65-thousand dollars for Americans traveling to Cuba without a special license. Typical fines for first-time violators are about 75-hundred dollars.

If officials act against him, Moro says he will refuse to pay any fines, even if it means jail time.

While U-S law let Cuban-Americans like Moro visit the island without a special permit until 2004, it authorized family visits -- not filmmaking.

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