The inhabitants of Aracatacapopulation of Caribbean Colombian where he was born Gabriel Garcia Márquez, you will be able to see the first episode of the adaptation he made on December 11 on the giant screen in his square. Netflix of ‘Hundred years of loneliness‘, crowning novel of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The screening will take place in the Simón Bolívar Park of Aracataca the same day that the series of eight episodes in its first season will premiere in 190 countries, reported this Friday the Foundation Gabopromoter of the initiative together with the local Mayor’s Office and with the support of the Ministry of the Cultures of Colombia and Proimágenes.
The event is the culmination of a series of outreach initiatives that Foundation Gabo has conceptually supported, along with embassies of Colombia and UNESCO in different places around the world, such as Washington, Paris, London, Madrid, Barcelona, Mexico City, Bogotá, Brussels, Tokyo and Bangkok.
The recording of this series with 16 episodes in Spanish and filmed in Colombia, it employed nearly a thousand workers Colombianspassed through 22 locations and involved building half a thousand square meters of facilities to bring it to a successful conclusion.
The great Gabo
For the Foundation Gaboand its director Jaime Abello, it is symbolic that “these presentations around the launch of the series culminate in Aracatacain it Cupcake and the Caribbeanthe place where it all began.”
- Gabriel Garcia Márquez was born in Aracatacadepartment of Cupcakeon March 6, 1927 and died on April 17, 2014, at the age of 87, in Mexico City.
- This screening of the first episode of ‘Hundred years of loneliness‘is part of the activities of the Foundation Gabo and the Ministry of Culture to commemorate the writer on the tenth anniversary of his death and advance the design of the centenary of his birth in 2027.
In that direction it will be carried out in Aracatacaon the 11th and 12th of this month, the workshop ‘Narrate he Caribbean from the perspective of Gabo‘, directed by the cultural journalist María José Marroquín, accompanied by María Jesús Espinosa de los Monteros, from the Governing Council of the Foundation Gabo and general director of Prisa Audio.
10 will participate in the workshop journalists cultural of the Caribbean Colombian, selected from the 40 applications received in the Foundation Gabo.
