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Capturing the Revolution on Film
President Hugo Ch¿vez traveled around Venezuela with actor Sean Penn during his visit early last month.
(By Howard Yanes -- Associated Press)
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She wrote the film over three years during a sojourn in New York in which she completed graduate school in filmmaking at Columbia University. Back in Venezuela, she presented the idea to City Cinema. "They liked the script very much and then they proposed to produce it at Villa del Cine," she said.
On a recent night, filming took place on a highway that skirts the mountain on Caracas's northern fringe.
The first romantic scene was to be filmed, and Charalambidis rushed to make sure that the lights were just right, that the sappy song by Pedro Infante was loud enough and that the cameraman captured her star's best angle.
That star, Rafael Gil, 39, had a neat, pencil-thin mustache, his thick, black hair combed back and held in place with excess hairspray. Gil is a tad plump and is no classical Casanova, nothing like the pretty faces familiar to those who watch Venezuelan soap operas.
Of course, that's exactly the point.
Gil had never played a big role in a feature-length film, and part of what Cinema City hopes to do is expand opportunities. His work had, until now, been limited to the stage.
"They're calling on many stage actors for the films being made by Cinema City," he said, taking a break from the shoot. "This is good for Venezuelan movies because you're seeing new faces."
