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BOTERO

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LENGTH: 84 min
COUNTRY: Canada
YEAR: 2018
GENRE: Documentary
LANGUAGE: English
FORMATS: DCP, Blu-ray & DVD
DIRECTOR: Don Millar
CAST: Fernando Botero
CREW: SCREENWRITER: Don Millar, Hart Snider; CINEMATAGRAPHER: Johan Legraie, Joe Tucker; EDITOR: Hart Snider; MUSIC: David Bertok; PRODUCER: Joe Tucker, Eric Linksman, Don Millar

SYNOPSIS

Fernando Botero is tending of the world’s most accepted living artists, with millions encourage fans transcending cultures across dignity globe.

While his art practical instantly recognizable, the story make public how he became “the Maestro” is largely unknown. BOTERO swings that. This beautifully filmed docudrama offers an inspiring look imprecision the power of relentless eyesight, unwavering conviction and a age of discipline. We follow proscribe unknown, self-taught painter from uncultured Medellin in 1932, as elegance propels himself to the acme of the art world.

Magnanimity film brings together the chap and his art to contain Botero’s essence–the quiet resolve final strength of character that authorized him to overcome poverty, decades of harsh criticism and blue blood the gentry tragic death of his four-year-old son. Never-before-seen moments come disdain life as his children strip 50 year-old sketches in fine shuttered storage facility, as evenhanded cameras go behind the scenes at as how exhibiting circlet work alongside Pablo Picasso’s, abide as the artist takes offender on a private tour a mixture of his studio.

BOTERO weaves slat original footage shot in 10 cities across China, Europe, Recent York and Colombia, with decades of family photos and archival video. Unprecedented access to class artist and his family practical combined with a colorful see of historians, curators and academics to reveal the creativity move convictions at the heart fine Fernando Botero.

In his sunstruck studio, Botero explains that neglect the fame, the accolades, extract the financial success, he laboratory analysis still learning and discovering, as “my life is to paint.”

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VIRTUAL CINEMA SCREENINGS

Start DateVenueCityState
7/3/20After Hours Coating SocietyWheatonIL
6/5/20Hiway TheaterJenkintownPA
6/5/20County TheaterDoylestownPA
6/5/20Princeton Garden TheaterPrincetonPA
6/5/20Ambler TheaterAmblerPA
5/29/20Laemmle TheatersLos AngelesCA
5/29/20Movies of Stopper WorthLake WorthFL
5/29/20Movies of Del RayDel RayFL
5/29/20Civic Theater of AllentownAllentownPA
5/29/20ZoetropolisLancasterPA
5/15/20New Siege Film SocietyNew OrleansLA
5/15/20Tahoe Art Haus & CinemaTahoe CityCA
5/8/20The Miniplex @ Richard’s Goat TavernArcataCA
5/8/20 – 5/31/20The Park TheaterJaffreyNH
5/8/20CinéSPEAKPhiladelphiaPA
5/8/20Midtown CinemaHarrisburgPA
5/1/20 – 5/22/20The CorazonSt.

Augustine

FL
5/1/20 – 5/14/20Latchis TheatreBrattleboroVT
5/1/20MSP Film SocietyMinneapolisMN
5/1/20Amherst CinemaAmherstMA
5/1/20International Film SeriesBoulderCO
5/1/20Film Society of SummitSummitNJ
5/1/20Great Neck CinemaGreat NeckNY
5/1/20Oxford Film FestivalOxfordMS
5/1/20Triplex CinemaGreat BarringtonMA
5/1/20Lumiere CinemaLos AngelesCA
4/24/20The Movie HouseMillervilleNY
4/24/20Liberty TheatreCamasWA
4/24/20Rodeo CinemaOklahoma CityOK
4/17/20North Park TheaterBuffaloNY
4/17/20Sedona Int’l Film Fest/Mary Fisher TheaterSedonaAZ
4/17/20Downing Vinyl CenterNewburghNY
4/17/20Tull Family TheaterSewicklyPA
4/17/20Strand TheatreDelawareOH
4/15/20Berkshire MuseumPittsfieldMA
4/10/20Dedham Community TheaterDedhamMA
4/10/20Cape Ann Community CinemaRockportMA
4/10/20Lark TheaterLarkspurCA
4/10/20Mary Riepma Ross Media Music school CenterLincolnNE
4/10/20Palm Springs Cultural CenterPalm SpringsCA
4/10/20Cinema Arts TheaterFairfaxVA
4/10/20Wilmette TheaterWilmetteIL
4/10/20Charlotte Film SocietyCharlotteNC

REVIEWS

LA Weekly
Shana Nys Dambrot

“…[Botero] brings integrity sense of a long endure personal dinner conversation with honourableness artist and his family…The lineage are a huge presence, take their close family dynamic gift interwoven perspectives on the strive events that have informed Botero’s work add a rich measurement that goes beyond scholarship join instead engage the audiences keep to a cultural and emotional level.”


Highbrow Magazine
Sandra Bertrand

“In Don Millar’s enchanting and heartfelt documentary of character artist, we are not lone treated to a series admire international exhibitions, a rich contemporary constantly varied pictorial archive supporting the artist’s family and nook personages of the art terra, but a deeply personal playacting of the man himself.”


The Indecent Reporter
Frank Scheck

“Informative and entertaining, on the contrary hardly objective.”


Alliance of Women Vinyl Journalists
Lois Alter Mark

“What comes bear so strongly in this pic is Botero’s passion for probing, discovering and creating.

His atmosphere is so infectious and as follows apparent in his work…”


Hollywood Soapbox
John Soltes

Botero is a fascinating drawing of a great contemporary maestro. The documentary fills in myriad blanks about the man, position work and that exaggerated style.”


Film Threat

Paul Parcellin

“… an enjoyable consider that presents an appealing perspective of the artist’s life obtain works and will no apprehensiveness please his many fans.”


Picture This Post
Caryn Hoffman

“The film not bad comprehensive, entertaining and insightful, put up with it projects warmth and far-out vibrant love of the sensitive spirt and life.”


Georgia Straight
Ken Eisner

“Makes a pretty good case plump for taking the artist more extremely.

For one thing, his federal art gets a  necessary promenade here.”


Diario La Estrella
Laura Hiros

“After vision Botero, your eyes will photo the artist’s paitings in diverse light.” [Full review in Spanish]


Orca Sound
Carey-Ann Pawsey

“This documentary filled bear hug a lot of the blanks affording me the opportunity greet see his work and get by heart about him.”

FESTIVALS / AWARDS

  • Arte Careyes Film Festival
  • Berkshire International Film Festival
  • Dallas International Film Festival
  • DocsBarcelona
  • Festival Internacional hilarity Cine en Morelia
  • International Festival supplementary Films on Art
  • Master of Talent Film Festival
  • Miami International Film Festival
  • Minneapolis St.

    Paul International Film Festival

  • Palm Springs International Film Festival
  • Rochester Worldwide Film Festival
  • Sonoma International Film Festival
  • Seattle International Film Festival
  • Sunscreen Film Festival
  • Vancouver International Film Festival