by the El Reportero’s news services
Cuban filmmaker Alejandro Perez is willing to spread the joy of being Latin American with the presentation on social networks of his most recent video clip with Gente de Zona and Puerto Rican singer Marc Anthony, filmed in the Dominican Republic.
Just a few hours from the official launching on Vevo, the music video platform of Youtube, Pérez corrects colors, images and sound in new projects because he is deluged with offers of works, and contrary to what people may believe, he has a lot of work with Cuban artists.
In his famous and prize winner video clip Bailando, popularized by Descemer Bueno, Gente de Zona and Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias, he used many dancers from the Ballet Lizt Alfonso and students from the National School of Dance.
For La Gozadera (The fun), title of the new song by Gente de Zona, Pérez called the skilled modern dance group Ballet Revolution with choreography by Roclan González (same as in “Bailando”).
The title of the video suggests part of the nature of the song, nevertheless, Pérez did not took it lightly and based on the lyrics he highlighted in the video the links amid Latin American countries.
Several cinema companies will restore Federico Fellini Film
Important Italian and world cinema companies join forces to restore the legendary Federico Fellini’’s film Amarcord (1973), announced today the Cineteca di Bologna.
This institution will join the Italian Internet sales portal Yoox in the restoration process, as well as other well-known companies, such as American Warner Bros. and Cristaldi Film, which took part in the original production of the film.
The Cineteca di Bologna also announced that the international premiere of the new and improved version of the film will take place during the 72 Venice International Film Festival edition, next September.
Despite it is not considered a Fellini ‘classic’, as well as La dolce vita (1960) and (1963), Amarcord won the Oscar Best Foreign Language Film in 1975.
Favorite film for the Oscars will premiere this weekend
The film Me and Earl and The Dying Girl, which premieres on Friday, is already one of the favorites for the still distant 87 edition of the Academy Awards, according to many specialist on the subject.
His director, Mexican-American Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, prefers to maintain a conservative position about the Oscars, however, the film has already obtained perfect ratings on IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic.
I don’t want to believe it, and what if it doesn’t work? What if nobody goes to watch my film? There are many months left to the Oscars and many good films yet to premiere”, modestly said to the media the 42-year-old filmmaker Gómez-Rejon.
“This is why I prefer to focus on the present”, expressed the director. “I am scared to death before the premiere, I feel total panic. As a filmmaker, you always intend to transform the original text into something related to your personal life and I really liked de script because of it’s dialogues and because it is about an important topic”, concluded Gómez-Rejon.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl script was written by Jesse Andrews and based on Andrews’s novel. The plot centers on a young student’s life, who loves filmmaking and avoids close relationships. However, he gets to experience new feelings when he meets a girl, who has leukemia.
The Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Feb. 28 next year. Although it may seem a little premature, the experts predictions about winning films have rarely failed in previous years.
