The documentary Omarathat collects the life and work of the world -famous diva of the Buena Vista Social Club and that He saw the light for the first time in 2021premiered today in PBS public Broadcastin System.
It was Omara herself who announced in her profile of Facebook The arrival at that platform of the material that “collects my life, my music and my path: a story told from the heart and for you.” In addition, he thanked “all those who have been part of this trip that continues full of love, songs and hope.”
By the hand of the American filmmaker Hugo Pérez, Omara He premiered world Miami Film Festival.
Pérez told a EFE that structured the film as a musical to dominate the singer’s performances above the opinions of relative or knowledgeable of her work.
It was Ariel, the only son of the singer, who proposed to Pérez to make a film about his mother when the filmmaker visited them in Havana for a project about the Cuban baseball players who played in the African -American leagues in the US. UU., As was the case of the singer’s father, Bartolomé Portuondo.
“I thought about it one night and told her yes,” Pérez recalls, who thought that a figure at Edith Piaf or she Fitzgerald deserved a documentary.
Documentary “Omara” will be exhibited at the Miami Film Festival
Pérez raised as a goal that the viewer knew Omara’s personality through his songs after realizing that this was what preferred the “diva” of Cuban music.
Winner of a Latin Grammy in 2009 and a Latin Grammy Special Prize to the Trajectory in 2019, in addition to many other distinctions, including the Medal of the Fine Arts of Spain, Portuondo will meet next October 95 years of age.
It is one of the living legends of Cuban music, with a career that includes having belonged to the quartet Las d’Aida and Buena Vista Social Club.
Produced by Dana Kuznetzkoff and Frida Torresblanco, Omara It is an intimate documentary about a woman with seven decades of career and an equivalent weight in Cuban music.
