by the El Reportero’s news services
Pablo MilanésCuban singer Pablo Milanes on Thursday was admitted to a Buenos Aires hospital for food poisoning and the concert he was scheduled to give in the evening here was postponed until the weekend.
The 70-year-old artist was diagnosed with pancreatitis and will have to have complete rest for the next 24 hours, the concert promoters said in a statement.
Tickets acquired for the Thursday night show at the Gran Rex Theater will remain valid for the concert now scheduled for Saturday.
Milanes, the writer of emblematic songs such as “Yolanda” and “La vida no vale nada,” is on a tour of Latin America to present his latest album entitled “Renacimiento.”
Icaro Film Festival Opens in El Salvador
The 16th annual “Icaro” Central American Film and Video Festival opened in El Salvador with the screening of recently released Salvadoran films and videos.
Leticia Girón, of the organizing committee, told the Prensa Latina news agency that the main objective of the festival is to gather and promote regional work in film and video.
She said that the festival has become a celebration where national producers, directors and script writers present their works to be analyzed by an international jury and then represent El Salvador at the Guatemala International Festival, the international Icaro.
Among the international jury members at the 16th festival is Cuban actor and director Jorge Molina, who is also a professor at the San Antonio de los Baños International Film and Television School and Higher Institute of Art, and well known in this country for his performance in the Cuban film “Juan de los Muertos”.
At the opening ceremony, Florence Jaugey’s documentary “El engaño”, SF(The deceit), which tells the stories of women who are victims of human trafficking, and a short animation by Salvadorian director Pilar Colome “Yoselin y el coyote” (Yoselin and the coyote) were screened.
The 16th festival will close on Saturday the 28th, with additional screenings in the cities of Santa Ana and San Miguel.
Costa Rica to host Shnit International Short Film Festival
Costa Rica will be one of the venues of the Shnit International Short Film Festival, which will run from October 2 to 6 simultaneously in eight cities worldwide. Buenos Aires and San Jose will host the event in Latin America, while its main venue lies in Bern, Switzerland.
For the third time, San Jose is among those cities selected to screen the competing films, all produced during the current year.
Costa Rica will also include a screening of domestic production in the festival: the Made in Costa Rica exhibition.
Bangkok, Kyoto, New York, Cairo and Cape Town will also exhibit the films participating in the contest, whose final awards will take place in Bern, at the gala Shnit Open. This year, Shnit celebrates its 11th anniversary with a large number of short films, cartoons and documentaries, reported the organizers of this festival, Reta Guetg and Olivier van der Hoeven, who also participated in its foundation.
