• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Arts and Culture
• 11 / 21 / 2011

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The 33 Latin American Film Festival to be held next December in Havana and announced celebrities participating in the event. The organizing committee has missed name like Gregory Nava, Harry Belafonte, Benicio del Toro and Laurent Cantet.

Nava, who travel to the island for the first time, will chair the screening of his film Bordertown (2006) and will participate in the Seminar Latinos in the U.S., which confirmed their presence a large delegation of Puerto Rican and Dominican managers, among others.

Del Toro, Cantet and the cast of Seven days in Havana, a contemporary portrait of the Cuban capital led by an equal number of directors, will accompany the audience in the world premiere of the film.

According to organizers, is still expected surprises in the film event, which will begin on December 1.

To abound in tributes to be held this year, the festival's president, Alfredo Guevara, said a special tribute to two outstanding figures of Latin American art and literature, the Chilean surrealist painter Roberto Matta in its centennial, and the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, one of the leaders of Latin American cinema, he said.

Gabo Island unconditional friend, he deserves this honor at length, "for being the great writer and filmmaker is not fully realized, the great revolutionary, responsive to the transformations that we are fighting every American," he said.

For Matta, he said, as we pay tribute paid to us before when we inherited two large posters promoting our festival. One of them is revealed in this 33 issue to remember that great iconic figure, he added.

For the occasion, travel to the island by his widow, Germaine Matta, who opened an exhibition of prints never seen before, some of them made during his stay in Havana.