ABTA Includes Colombia in its Holiday Hot Spots for 2008

On 2007/12/20, In Culture, By Albeiro Rodas

The prestigious Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA), included Colombia in its Holiday Hot Spots list for 2008. The other countries are China, Australia, Abu Dhabi, Botswana and Israel. The Agency said that Colombia has become a very popular tourist detination and it is supposed that by year 2008 it will have a golden time for tourism thanks to the efforts of the government and its meaningful investments. One of the big factors to decide the inclusion of a country that used to steal headlines of violence and political instability in the past, is also the Mike Newell´s film of Gabriel García Márquez´s novel, “Love in the Time of Cholera”. The movie was shooted in the stuning Cartagena de Indias, which is regarded as the most beautiful city in South America.

The inclusion of Colombia in the top lists of ABTA came after the news of Colombia being as top destination of National Adventure for 2008 by the National Geographic.

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Shakira: Nomed Best Song for Love in the Time of Cholera, Golden Globe

On 2007/12/14, In Culture, By Albeiro Rodas

Shakira

The Colombian singer is in the list of noms for best original song in the film “Love in the Time of Cholera” with “Despedida”. The song, composed for the film based in the Gabriel García Márquez novel and produced by Scott Steinford who shot it in Cartagena de Indias, gave to the famous artists the honor to be among the bests in the candidacy for the Golden Globe to be celebrated in Berverly Hills next Sunday 13th January 2008, just nine days before the prizes of the Acadamy.

Shakira, whose full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarat Ripoll, was born in Barranquilla on February 2, 1977 and she is one of the most popular singers, composer and productor of pop-rock from Colombia. Her family is of Arab-Lebanon origin and her name, Shakira, means “full of grace”. She started her path to fame during the 80´s and in 2001 was well known around the world for her album “Laundry Service”. According to the United World Chart, Shakira has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide. She is also two times Grammy winner and seven times Grammy Latino winner.

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Scott Steindorff wants to live in Cartagena

On 2007/11/30, In Culture, By Albeiro Rodas

The producer of the Love in the Time of Cholera Movie got in love with the Colombian city

By Albeiro Rodas — ColPass

Scott Steindorff, the producer of “Love in the Time of Cholera” with Dune Kozat. Picture from David Patrick Columbia/Jeffrey Hirsch.

Cartagena. The producer of the movie based in the novel of Gabriel García Márquez, “Love in Time of Cholera,” said in a press conference in Cartagena that he is looking a house to live in the city, according to El Tiempo.

Scott Steindorff got also a Colombian girlfriend, the actress Marcela Mar and he said that he wants to do another film in the Colombian Caribbean city.

The statement was done before 200 international journalists in the World Organization for Tourism Summit in the classic Heredia Theater, a famous cultural building that stands within the stunning historical center of Cartagena de Indias. (more…)

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Cartagena in the Time of Cholera

On 2007/11/01, In Culture, By Albeiro Rodas

The movie revealed not only a novel but a real city: Cartagena de Indias

Cartagena de Indias.Septiembre 2007 656By Albeiro Rodas

Cartagena – PasCol. When Scott Steindorff bought the rights of the Gabriel García Márquez novel to make his film, he did not buy Colombia: he was thinking in recreate a Cartagena de Indias in Mexico or in Brazil. Colombia was then a dangerous country.

Picture by Bitacoreta.

The same Colombian 1982 Nobel Prize, Gabo – as he is known in the Hispanic world – and the Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos, asked him to consider the same Cartagena de Indias promising security guarantees for the production. Steindorff brought Mike Newell to the city, as he said in a press conference in Cartagena after the movie was presented there, and let him to stay for some days to prove if that was real, if Cartagena Colombia was a real secure city. The yes of Newell archived the Mexican and Brazilian options and the movie stayed in the city. (more…)

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