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BENICIO DEL TORO IS IN CUBA TO SHOOT A FILM lchirino | February 28, 2011 at 5:53 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pLgvg-eG South Journal—Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro is in Havana, Cuba, to coordinate the shooting of the film Siete dias en La Habana (Seven Days in Havana). Del Toro, 44, is part of a group of seven film directors that will make the Hispanic-French film, whose plot is made up of seven stories as well. Cuban writer and journalist Leonardo Padura will coordinate the screewrite. The list of directors includes Spanish Julio Medem, Cuban Juan Carlos Tabio, Argentineans Gaspar Noe and Pablo Trapero, Palestinian Elia Suleiman and French Laurent Cantet. Benicio del Toro visited Cuba in 2009, when he was awarded the Tomas Gutierrez Alea International Prize, granted by the Cuban Writers and Artists Association. On that occasion, the Puerto Rican actor was accompanied by Robert Duvall, James Caan and Bill Murray. He received a prize for his main role in the Film Che, directed by Steven Soderbergh. In December 2008, del Toro presented the two parts of the film Che at the 30th International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema. Benicio, who won an Oscar for the best actor in the film Traffic, will possibly play Pancho Villa, along Mexican Gael Garcia Bernal, in a film by Emir Kusturica. Based on the book Los amigos de Pancho Villa (Pancho Villa´s friends) by US novelist of Mexican origin James Carlos Blake, the full-length film will be titled Los siete amigos de Pancho Villa y la mujer de los seis dedos (Pancho Villa´s Seven Friends and the Woman with Six Fingers). The film deals with the life of the Mexican revolutionary leader, while its music was made by the No Smoking Orchestra rock band, led by Kusturica himself. ==================== Benicio del Toro debuts as director with film shot in Cuba Published February 28, 2011 | EFE Havana – Oscar-winning actor Benicio del Toro is in Cuba to film one of the stories making up the movie "Siete dias en La Havana" (Seven days in Havana), in which he will make his debut as a director, a source with the production confirmed to Efe. Del Toro is one of the seven directors involved in the Spanish-French co-production that was begun this month by French director Laurent Cantet and will also include Spain's Julio Medem, Cuba's Juan Carlos Tabio, Argentines Gaspar Noe and Pablo Trapero and Palestinian Elia Suleiman. The project will offer a "multiplicity of visions" of Havana and the script coordination is being handled by Cuban writer Leonardo Padura. It is being co-produced by Spain's Morena Films and France's Full House with a budget of about 3 million euros ($4.1 million) and is scheduled to be screened for the first time next October. The cast includes Cubans Jorge Perugorria, Mirta Ibarra, Ana de Armas and Vladimir Cruz. Del Toro, who won Spain's Goya for best actor for his starring role in Steven Soderbergh's pair of films about Che Guevara, has visited Cuba on several occasions, one of them in 2009. On that trip, the Puerto Rican actor received the first Tomas Gutierrez Alea international award bearing the name of the late Cuban movie director, a prize bestowed by the Writers and Artists Union of Cuba. Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2011/02/28/benicio-del-toro-debut\ s-director-film-shot-cuba/#ixzz1FHi0WqOo ========================================= WALTER LIPPMANN Havana, Cuba Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/ "Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo" ========================================= ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
