The Nicanor’s return

By Jorge Fernández Era

Eduardo de el Llano, a prolific writer, journalist and audiovisual filmmaker, is rehearsing Arte during these days. This is a short film by his authorship and the first one of the second season of the Nicanor’s saga coming after some break he took by ending the ten chapters of the first season, which have been well received mostly in alternative media.

"We are not sure it is going to be ten chapters this time- s Del Llano says -. Arte will be shooting in the first days of February and should be ready in may to be premiered at the Havana’s Bienal since its producer is painter Michel Mirabal, whose works are somehow related to the plot of the short film, which will take place in the closed space of an art gallery for twenty minutes ».

As expected, well-known Cuban actors Luis Alberto García and Néstor Jiménez will be included in the cast playing the characters of Nicanor and Rodriguez plus six actors and an actress, all of them are young artists and have theatrical training. Music will be in charge of rap artist known as Bárbaro el Urbano, who will probably accompanied by the girls of the Sexto Sentido vocal group.

Eduardo is waiting for a response on the part of the ICAIC (Cuban Institute of Art and Cinematographic Art) on a script for a film titled Manicato - "a less risky project than the two previous ones ", according to the director -, that in case it is approved, it would be his third film after Vinci, his first film and Omega 3, his second one and the first Cuban science fiction movie. He is also planning to turn his latest book Bonsai into script, which is recently published by the Letras Cubanas Publishing Company, but he clarifies that, in that case, the complexity of the production would be higher and he would not able to assume it by himself.

With humor and social criticism, as Eduardo de el Llano uses to do, Arte will be included in a list of short films such as Monte Rouge, Photoshop, Intermezzo, Brainstorm, Exit, among others, which are like a cult for its many followers.