Icarus Films announced this past week that documentary
filmmaker Justin Webster’s Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel García Márquez,
loving tribute to the life of Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Gabriel “Gabo” García
Márquez, has been added to its May 10 DVD release calendar.
Already in place on that date is director Marianne Lambert’s
I
Don't Belong Here: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman.
Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel García Márquez had a very limited
arthouse run during the fall of last year that generated ticket sales of $14,796
and arrives with an ARR of 221 days.
The Colombian-born literary giant, who was affectionately
known as simply Gabo, was a journalist, a screenwriter (a Silver Ariel-winner
for his 1979 screenplay, El Ano de La Peste (aka: The Year
of the Plague) and renown author, whose works include the best-selling
“One Hundred Years of Solitude” (for which he won the Nobel Prize) and “Love in
the Time of Cholera.”
Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel García Márquez is presented in
Spanish with English subtitles and features interviews with president Bill
Clinton and biographer Gerald Martin.
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