2024-05-01 12:48:24
Text: Cuba Noticias 360
Cuban director Fernando Pérez is preparing to begin filming his new film, postponed due to the scourge of the coronavirus pandemic.
Prominent actors and actresses such as Jacqueline Arenal will participate in the film, who will return to cinema in Cuba after maintaining a successful career in the television industry in Colombia.
Pérez, author of renowned films such as Clandestinos, Suite Havana, La Vida es Silbar, and Madagascar, has finalized all the details to begin directing this new film with his work team.
His most recent film was Last Days in Havana, a story about the relationship between a homosexual who is dying of AIDS and another man who is only waiting to leave for the United States. Both characters were played respectively by the prominent actors Jorge Martínez and Patricio Wood.
The film, among other awards, won the Platinum Awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Ibero-American Film. It also won the prestigious Ariel Award for Best Ibero-American Film.
Jacqueline Arenal, for her part, is one of the most recognized actresses in Cuba. She has participated in films such as The Century of Enlightenment, Plaff or Too Much Fear of Life, A Paradise Under the Stars and Miradas, among others.
On Cuban television he marked an era with his role in the soap opera Tierra Brava, one of the most popular installments in the history of these spaces on the island.
Arenal assured that he longed to work with Fernando Pérez, whom he considered one of the great Cuban directors for his talent and humility.
Along with the development of his work, the Cuban director has also joined various social projects and has supported young creators and filmmakers.
He was one of the most representative figures who participated in the demonstration of Cuban artists and intellectuals that took place on November 27 in front of the Ministry of Culture, where they demanded, above all, a group of freedoms for artistic processes in Cuba.
Pérez, along with actor Jorge Perugorría, was with a group of young artists at the meeting with the island’s Vice Minister of Culture, Fernando Rojas.
“On the night of 27N I felt like I traveled to the future. On that trip, accompanying the young artists who were in front of the Mincult, I shared an open, inclusive, diverse, plural space, in which those young people prefigured the Cuba that many Cubans of all generations have dreamed of and still dream of,” commented the director of the Spanish newspaper El País.
The coronavirus in Cuba has stopped most cultural activities since last March when the first cases were reported. In recent weeks, theater performances, cinema and concerts, among others, have begun to be restored.