The seventh art in the world has counted with great figures that showed through their history memorable protagonists. Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Maria Felix, Jorge Negrete, Elizabeth Taylor, Mel Gibson, Marcelo Mastroniani, Alain Delon, Sofia Loren, Lola Flores, Antonio Banderas, Ana Belen, among many others, have left their mark on moviegoers around the world with their masterful interpretations.
The Gibara International Film Festival in its 18th edition counted with the presence of two greats of Cuban cinematography. Eslinda Núñez, film, theater and television actress, a living legend of the arts in Cuba, and her husband Manuel García, both National Film Awards 2010 and 2022, respectively.
A pleasant conversation with them revealed the intelligence, talent and humility of these two people from Santa Clara and Cuba who have made their profession the center of their lives with sixty-three years of marriage, a son they named Inti, after Che’s guerrilla fighter, Inti Peredo, and three grandchildren.
She, a beautiful woman, has played unforgettable characters in films. Primera Carga al Machete by Manuel Octavio Gómez. Memorias del Subdesarrollo and Lucía, among others by Humberto Solas, who founded this meeting of international filmmakers in Gibara.
And although she does not always play the leading roles, she falls in love with good scripts, to which she tries to convey meaning, strength and fluidity. She says that Cuban cinema lacks good scripts, means of production and technology, and to know how to use them with good dramaturgy. With beginnings and endings going to the essences.
In September of this year he will work on a Russian film of which he did not give details.
He is a man who directs and does it very well. Girón is a classic that bears his seal and says it has been a good fortune to be next to a woman who loves her craft, with whom he has a perfect interrelationship, a kind of duo in which neither one nor the other interferes in their respective jobs.
Manuel is involved in a project for the cinema whose filming will begin at the end of this August under the name La hermandad del silencio, based on the Masonic lodges and the role they played in the War for Independence and the presence of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes in them. For his entire career he received the Lucia de Honor Award.
Enrique Santiesteban, Daisy Granados, Sergio Corrieri, René de la Cruz, Fela Hart, Raquel Revuelta, Enrique Almirante, are considered paradigms of acting.
Eslinda Nuñez and Manuel García, two great Cuban filmmakers, referents for present and future generations who aspire to excellence in the seventh art.
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