The audiovisualist, Gerardo Jara, director of the documentary ‘Pecci’. Photo: Media Nation
“Pecci” is the name of the documentary feature film about the life of the well-known Paraguayan tennis player, Víctor Pecci, which will premiere on GEN screens. It is directed by the audiovisual artist Gerardo Jara who
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The prestigious career of the Paraguayan tennis player, Victor Pecciis the premise of the documentary ‘Pecci’which on April 2 will see the light through the screens of GENEchannel responsible for the project.
In conversation with TODAY, the film’s director, Gerardo Jaracomments on the realization of the aforementioned audiovisual work, which arrives as part of the new ventures in which the television station is working with its extensions, GEN Digital and GEN Originals, through which it seeks to create different and quality.
“This time we are working on generating documentary projects about different events and historical figures and portraying them from our point of view”says Gerardo, who, although he already has vast experience in documentaries, is directing a documentary for the first time.
She says that she came to the project through the manager, Patricia Santacruzand the content director of the channel, Marcelo Tolces“of whom I am very grateful, for the trust and opportunity they gave me.”
Approximately 40 to 50 professionals worked on the documentary for four months. “The entire process, from the extensive research work carried out by the scriptwriters, then all the effort of the producers and directors, to the editing and animation work of the post-producers”.
He says that the public is going to find a very exciting story like Pecci’s life was, in addition to unpublished anecdotes that he and the other protagonists revealed to us. In this sense, he highlights that the production of the film managed to make exclusive contact with Pecci’s rivals of the time such as: Borg, McEnroe, Noah, Clerc, among others.
“I don’t think there is currently a historical resource on Pecci’s life that compiles all the relevant stuff the way this documentary does. And lastly, they (the public) will find a top-level product, made by very professional people of whom I am very proud.”asserts.
MORE ABOUT GERARDO
Gerardo Jara has a degree in Audiovisual Communication, graduated from the Autonomous University of Asunción. He studied Visual Arts at the Higher Institute of Art of the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Art of the National University of Asunción (UNA), and has extensive experience in television, advertising and film productions.
He collaborated in documentary projects such as “90 Years of the Paraguayan Red Cross”, “Guarani Kokue” and “The Story of Marina Cué in 6 Minutes”. With regard to his own works, among the most notable are “Postcards” (2007), with presence in national and international festivals and exhibitions, such as the Asuncion International Film Festival and in Video Library of South New York and Havana.
also headlined “Jesareko”a documentary that is part of the series ‘Partnerships Between Borders’exhibited in several countries in the region, including a special exhibition at the Mar del Plata Festivalin 2010.
Since 2013 he ventured into making video clips. In July 2016, he was selected to be part of an Essay Film Workshop, taught by the famous Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase, in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Member of the association of photographers and photographers in Paraguay “The Wild Eye”.
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