Amílcar Salatti González

Amilcar Salatti González is a writer and screenwriter at the Cuban Institute of Film Art and Industry. He graduated as a veterinarian from the University of Havana. He is attentive and respectful of his reality with which he has an explicit commitment: to tell it so that through art he can make it better, whether through television or cinema.

Amílcar is one of the creators who, when showing fiction, relies on tangible facts, whether historical or from the most recurring everyday life. Concerned with the man-social context relationship, in interpersonal relationships he has achieved a very particular poetic approach to narration.

He creates atmospheres in which he includes a succession of events that do not seem to have great implications, until the moment when conflict erupts. He possesses a simple way of probing the springs of ethics, which constitutes another of the favorable points found in the discourse conceived by this screenwriter laureate in both cinema and television. Evidence of this are the films, Esteban and Inocencia.

He always returns to television. As he stated exclusively for the Cuban TV Portal: "I return to television because of a mixture of things: some emotional and others a bit more practical and earthly. I owe my formation as a screenwriter, the craft I have and my work capacity to it. Upon returning to television came the telenovela Entrega, which as we approach its first chapters shows itself as a necessary dramatization. The 'inspiration' came upon finishing writing Inocencia.

His great fear was placing a protagonist in a telenovela space who spoke about Martí, about the Granma, about the mambises, about the assault on the Moncada Barracks… that was the challenge and he did it with the fear that the public could take control and change the channel, because the history is really there. He decided to mix this national history with a second plot, co-starring, of a police nature.

A fan of writing police stories. He never writes for a specific actress or actor. On this subject he comments: "I never work for actors.

He is credited with screenplays in various genres, some in co-authorship, such as the TV series SOS Academia, Of Loves and Hopes (1st season) and Zoológico, the telenovela Shared Heartbeats and the film Natural Bohemian.

Alone he has written for the films Esteban, Inocencia and Red Line; and the telefilms Lost, The Colors of Life, Sacrifice, OH, Alone, Skein for Six and Mismatch, for which he has received various national and international awards.

Other screenplays include his work on Patrol 444 and ONE (all three seasons) and Entrega.

Adventures and police stories. All the books by Emilio Salgari, Jules Verne, Agatha Christie, etc. were his readings as a child and adolescent.

His first screenplay was for a feature film, What a Bad Day by God, which won the Cine Plaza Award in 2005 and has never been filmed. Literature is a completely different language and one he believes he would never dare attempt.

Salatti seeks emotion but without reaching sentimentality, deals with important themes without becoming intellectual. In summary: He seeks the heart of the public with sincerity. He thinks that by being aware of people, their concerns, interests or emotions, as well as their generational dreams. It is possible that this is why he has achieved those results attributed to him.

Also, in some of the projects, a well-placed dose of humor can make the situation work better, he likes people to laugh; and the mixture of emotions in a story. When the public cries, laughs and reflects, they leave spiritually nourished. His best projects have had behind them directors who knew how to carry his screenplays despite difficult conditions.

Films
Esteban
Inocencia
Red Line

Telefilms
''Lost''
''The Colors of Life''
''Sacrifice''
''Skein for Six and Mismatch''

Screenwriter
''What a Bad Day by God''
''Patrol 444 and ONE (all three seasons)''
''Entrega''

Awards and Recognition
Cine Plaza Award in 2005