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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…)

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

By 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…)

Tagged with: Gabriel García Márquez • Love in the Time of Cholera • Movie • Scott Steindorff

244 municipalities in high risk for elections

03.08.2010 Ombudsman said that 244 municipalities of Colombia are at high risk for the coming elections. They could face constraint to the voter, disruption of the electoral contest, threats, restrictions on mobility and suffragan corruption, warns the office. The threats come from the Farc guerrillas and the new armed groups, especially in the northern coast and the southwest of Colombia. General Freddy Padilla declared to the press that the security forces will be alert in all the national territory to guarantee safety during the elections.

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CAMILO VILLEGAS: The best Colombian golfer is leading the Honda Classic with 199 hits, 67 impacts - NASA: The earthquake of Chile changed the rotation of the earth and shortened the duration of the day in 1 microsecond - JUSTICE: A judge sentenced a guerrilla group of Farc for its responsibility in the killing of more than 100 persons who took refuge in the church of Bojayá - Chocó during a battle between guerrillas and paramilitary groups on May 2, 2002. - COLOMBIAN SOCCER (last updated on Sunday, March 07): Santa Fe 3, Tolima 2 - Medellín 1, Junior 1 - Caldas 0, Cali 3; TODAY SUNDAY: Cúcuta, Quindío - Chicó, Nacional - América, La Equidad - Cortuluá, Pereira - Cartagena, Envigado - Huila, Millonarios - You are in Colombia Passport! - TERRORIST PLAN: The Ministry of Defense, Gabriel Silva Luján, said that there are not evidences of a possible terrorist attack against the Supreme Court, but he said that the security has been reinforced to avoid any possible violence. - BOGOTÁ TRANSPORT STRIKE IS FINISHED: The transports and the city government reached an agreement in 1,8. - SPAIN AND VELEZUELA: Madrid asked information from Caracas, no explanations, in the possible implication of the Venezuelan government between the relations Farc-ETA, said Moratinos. - CHILE: The reconstruction of the country will take three or four years, said President Bachillet. - REFERENDUM: The promoters of the referendum law for a third presidential period of Uribe could face disciplinary prosecutions and even political dead, predicts Semana magazine.

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