Camaguey. - Representatives of international film festivals of four American countries invited the Cuban film “Pablo”—concerning family violence—to be shown in those events.

The forums will be in 2013 in New York and Los Angeles (United Sates), Bogota (Colombia), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Curazao.

Yosmani Acosta, form Camaguey province and director of the film that was filmed in 2011 in the same city, said to AIN that the abovementioned requests show the interest on the film which was premiered in a sample outside of the competition during the 34th International New Latin American Film Festival.

Acosta, who is studying a Master at the New Technologies School in Madrid, Spain, added that during the meeting in Havana the film was screened five times, and the most recent ones—also in December—in an eight-day cycle in Guerrero Room, in Camaguey.

The first full-length film made in the province, “Pablo” illustrates with examples the rejection to family violence in a context where a child who has lost his mother gets a diverse and habitual mistreatment.

The audiovisual is considered a campaign of public well with a universal value, and it includes actors, and a technical team composed mostly by people from Camaguey.

The brothers Jadiel and Javier Diaz Varona, who were then five and 12 years old, respectively, played Pablo, the protagonist, in two different stages of his life.

Aramis Delgado (Mantecon) and Omar Franco (Rogelio) are also part of the cast. The soundtrack includes songs by Buena Fe, Carlos Varela, and Humberto Garcia, director of Musicora group, from Camaguey.

A progressive projection of “Pablo” should start this month in Matanzas, and it will then be spread to the rest of the country.

Translation: Adriana Pérez (Cubarte)