Buscando a Gabo / Finding Gabo

“BUSCANDO A GABO”, (“Finding Gabo”) is a documentary produced by the Colombian film director Luis Fernando Bottia in 2007, as a tribute to the 80th birthday of García Márquez and the forty years of publication of his novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. The documentary presents a human portrait of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as evoked by several intellectuals, such as Carlos Monsivais, a famous Mexican writer and journalist; Alvaro Mutis, Colombian novelist and poet; Roberto Pombo, currently Director of the prestigious journal El Tiempo and Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, a journalist ad novelist who was one of Gabo’s closest friends; as well as members of his family. It presents the special circumstances that define who Gabo, the great Colombian writer was, and where Macondo and his magical realism originated. Director: Luis Fernando “Pacho” Bottía (Barranquilla – Colombia, 1954) graduated in Political Science at the Universidad de los Andes (Andes University) of Bogota. His work in the cinema as filmmaker and screenwriter began in the 1980s decade. In 1981, he received a mention in the Colcultura Film festival (Colombia) for “Carnaval en blanco y negro” (screenwriter and director). He won the First Prize at the Bogota Film Festival (1983) and the same year the special mention in Huelva Latin Film Festival (Spain) for the film “El Guacamaya” (screenwriter and director). His first feature film, “La boda del acordionista” (1986) won the Coral award for the Best First Work at the New International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema of Havana, Cuba. In 1987 he directed the TV series “Corralejas”, which won the Simon Bolivar National TV prize and of the India Catalina award at the Cartagena Film Festival in that year. In 1990, his script Aluna was chosen by 2nd Call of the Film Projects for Children and Youth (Proyectos Cinematográficos para la Infancia y la Juventud ) in Mexico; thanks to this he was invited to participate at the International Projects Workshop that was organized by the Sundance Institute and the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. In 1997, he directed the Colombian-Spanish documentary: ”La Cartagena de García Márquez”. Since 2003, he is the Director of the Film and Audio-visual Program of the Magdalena University in Santa Marta, Colombia. The showing of the documentary (52 minutes) will be followed by light food and beverages through the kind support of the Embassy of Colombia. The documentary is in Spanish with English subtitles. Admission is free. Please confirm your attendance on Eventbrite http://www.eventbrite.com/e/finding-gabo-buscando-a-gabo-documentary-reg...