Published February 28, 2011.EFE. Havana –  Oscar-winning actor Benicio del Toro is in Cuba to film one of the stories making up the movie "Siete dias en La Havana" (Seven days in Havana), in which he will make his debut as a director, a source with the production confirmed to Efe.Del Toro is one of the seven directors involved in the Spanish-French co-production that was begun this month by French director Laurent Cantet and will also include Spain's Julio Medem, Cuba's Juan Carlos Tabio, Argentines Gaspar Noe and Pablo Trapero and Palestinian Elia Suleiman.">Published February 28, 2011.EFE. Havana –  Oscar-winning actor Benicio del Toro is in Cuba to film one of the stories making up the movie "Siete dias en La Havana" (Seven days in Havana), in which he will make his debut as a director, a source with the production confirmed to Efe.Del Toro is one of the seven directors involved in the Spanish-French co-production that was begun this month by French director Laurent Cantet and will also include Spain's Julio Medem, Cuba's Juan Carlos Tabio, Argentines Gaspar Noe and Pablo Trapero and Palestinian Elia Suleiman.">

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Benicio del Toro debuts as director with film shot in Cuba

Published February 28, 2011.EFE. Havana –  Oscar-winning actor Benicio del Toro is in Cuba to film one of the stories making up the movie "Siete dias en La Havana" (Seven days in Havana), in which he will make his debut as a director, a source with the production confirmed to Efe.

Del Toro is one of the seven directors involved in the Spanish-French co-production that was begun this month by French director Laurent Cantet and will also include Spain's Julio Medem, Cuba's Juan Carlos Tabio, Argentines Gaspar Noe and Pablo Trapero and Palestinian Elia Suleiman.

The project will offer a "multiplicity of visions" of Havana and the script coordination is being handled by Cuban writer Leonardo Padura. It is being co-produced by Spain's Morena Films and France's Full House with a budget of about 3 million euros ($4.1 million) and is scheduled to be screened for the first time next October.

The cast includes Cubans Jorge Perugorria, Mirta Ibarra, Ana de Armas and Vladimir Cruz.

Del Toro, who won Spain's Goya for best actor for his starring role in Steven Soderbergh's pair of films about Che Guevara, has visited Cuba on several occasions, one of them in 2009.

On that trip, the Puerto Rican actor received the first Tomas Gutierrez Alea international award bearing the name of the late Cuban movie director, a prize bestowed by the Writers and Artists Union of Cuba.

Source: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2011/02/28/

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