"Rállame la zanahoria", by Eduardo del Llano premieres at the Gibara International Film Festival

July 9, 2019

More than 50 audiovisual materials are competing for the Lucía awards at the International Film Festival (FIC) in Gibara -2019, including the Cuban fiction short film Rállame la zanahoria, by actor and director Eduardo del Llano, which was among the proposals screened Monday night in the coastal city of Holguín.

More than 50 audiovisual materials are competing for the Lucía awards at the International Film Festival (FIC) in Gibara -2019, including the Cuban fiction short film Rállame la zanahoria, by actor and director Eduardo del Llano, which was among the proposals screened Monday night in the coastal city of Holguín.

The cinematographic work is part of the popular Nicanor series, which, as Eduardo del Llano explained to the Cuban News Agency, does not have a conventional serial continuity from the point of view of the characters' story, since each chapter is single-themed and independent.

This time the main characters, masterfully interpreted by Luis Alberto García and Néstor García, represent a filmmaker in search of financing for his work and a reggaeton artist whose career is going excellently, despite the absurd lyrics of his songs which he insists on calling metaphors.

Young actress Andrea Doimeadiós also displays her on-stage abilities, bringing to life a graduate of acting from the Superior Institute of Art who was forced to seek money through other means outside her chosen profession.

Eduardo del Llano noted that Doimeadiós is a great artist and enriches the space with her special charisma, in addition to having a characteristic comic timing, which she displays in each performance.

The story, whose main success is the appropriate script with refined humor that reflects current reality, suggests the world of culture as the battlefield of artists.

Participants and guests packed the areas of the Gibara cinema during the premieres of the second day of the FIC, and also appreciated the short Cositas Malas directed by Víctor Alfonso and starring Coralia Veloz, who takes on the role of a scandalous elderly woman involved in disputes with mischievous kids.

The projection program for the coming days will include, among others, the Argentine documentary feature film El camino de Santiago, by filmmaker Tristán Bauer and the Canadian Havana from On High, by Pedro Ruiz.

Until next Saturday, the also-known White Village of the Crabs, located about 30 kilometers from the Holguín capital, becomes a true sea of the arts and giant screens are placed in different parts of the city for viewing classic and contemporary films.