The important director and guionista of Cuban cinema, Juan Carlos Tabío, co-director of the movie Fresa y Chocolate, failed in the madrugada of this month 18 of the year 77 years, after dio to announce a note of the portal Cubasia, which does not specify the cause of the decade.
Cin National Award in 2014, Juan Carlos is renowned internationally as one of the most distinguished directors of Cuban directors of the last decades, with important titles in his filmography as Is allowed (1983), Plaff o demasiado miedo a la vida (1988) and The Elephant and the Bicycle (1994).
Especially significant results the co-management that shared with Tomás Gutiérrez Alea in the multiplication Fresa y chocolate (1993), which was nominated including the Oscars, and Guantanamera (1995).
Also featured in his filmography List of hopes (2000), Aunque estés lejos (2003), The Corner of Abundance (2008) y dirigió “El dulce amargo de la desesperación”, uno de los cuentos del largometraje Places in La Habana (2012). This last, a coral realization in which other important international directors participate, in particular the Spaniard Julio Medem, the Frenchman Laurent Cantet, the Argentine Pablo Trapero, the Palestinian Elia Suleiman and the Argentine-Frenchman Gaspar Noé.
The filmography of Tabío was greatly enhanced by Cuba, Plaff obtuvo la Mención Especial del Jurado de la International Federation of Film Societés en el XIV Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva, España, in 1988, as well as tercer Premio Coral, Premio FIPRESCI en el X Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano.
The divertida comedy, which was chosen by the actress Daisy Granados as a prize in Portugal and elsewhere in Paraguay, also won the Best Film Award at the New York Latino Film Festival in 1989 and the Best Film Award at the II Cine del Cibe Festival, Fort de France, Martinica, 1990.
El Elephant and the bicycle FIPRESCI Mención recipient at the XVI International Festival of the New Latin American Cine, was nominated for the Goya Prize for Best Foreign Film, in Spain. In addition, the Second Prize at the International Festival of China, Damascus, Syria and the Public Prize at the Brussels Festival, Belgium, in 1997.
Born in 1943, Juan Carlos Tabío began working in 1961 at the ICAIC as a production assistant and subsequently continued as an assistant director.
Between 1963 and 1980 made more than 30 documentaries, various of them awarded in various certifications. In 1983 dirigio su primer largometraje de fiction, Se Permuta, widely acclaimed by the Cuban public, who won the Third Coral Award at the VI International Festival of the New Latin American Cine.
Is allowed and its second film, Plaff, permanecen como one of the most important comedies of the Cuban cinema of all time.
List of hopes received in 2000 the Award of the Ministry of French Culture and the Public Award of the Cine-Forum at the Cannes Film Festival.
El Cuerno de la Abundancia, for its part, received the Third Coral Award at the XXX Latin American New International Film Festival in 2008 and also received the Special Award of Lawyer at the 49th International Film Festival of Cartagena, Colombia, 2008, among others.
Between 1989 and 1990 Tabío became professor of theater and cinematographic direction at the International School of Cinema and Television of San Antonio de los Baños. In its extensive career dictation, in addition, numerous guillotine, direction and dramaturgy in various countries, between Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama.
UNEAC and other Cuban institutions are high on the news, with messages from the huge loss to Cuban culture that means the death of Tabío, which sums up the recent bankruptcy of the former director of cinema, Enrique Pineda Barnet, happened a few weeks ago.
The deadly remains of Juan Carlos Tabío will be cremated and “in a timely manner will inform the delivery of the delivery to this director who thinks in pictures and we should have left an important career in Cuban cinematographic work”, concludes the ICAIC note.
From the editing of CiberCuba We send our condolences to the family of the director of the Cuban city.