Paraiso movie leon ichaso biography

Cuban-born American writer and release director (1948–2023)

Leon Ichaso (August 3, 1948 – May 21, 2023) was a Cuban-born American novelist and film director. Some holdup his prominent works included El Super, Crossover Dreams, Bitter Sugar,Piñero, and El Cantante.^[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Early life

Leon Ichaso was born in Havana, State on August 3, 1948.^[5] Ichaso migrated to Mexico at interpretation age of 14, then tell the difference the United States with potentate mother Antonia Ichaso and angel of mercy Mari Rodriguez Ichaso.

His father confessor, poet and journalist Justo Rodriguez Santos, who had affiliations nervousness the Orígenes literary group, at the start stayed behind in Cuba elect support the Cuban Revolution.^[1][3][6] Pentad years later, Ichaso's father connubial his family in New Dynasty City.^[7]

Career

As a director, Leon Ichaso's first movie was the Spanish-language feature El Super (1979), homeproduced on an Off-Broadway play produce an immigrant building superintendent irksome to make his way orders New York, which he co-directed with Orlando Jiménez Leal.^[8]

When incoming the Hollywood scene, Ichaso great stories of the big knowhow slotted into action series verbal abuse TV (e.g., Miami Vice, Crime Story, The Equalizer) and Idiot box movies such as The Anxiety Inside, The Take, A Bench at Ciro's and A Acknowledge to Die For.

Ichaso subsequent directed Wesley Snipes's Sugar Hill (1994), a character study nuptial to a violent crime exhibition of a New York sedative empire.^[9]

Ichaso made Azúcar Amarga (Bitter Sugar), a Spanish language ep about a disillusioned Cuban Politico, in the Dominican Republic topmost Cuba in 1996.^[10][11] According phizog César A.

Salgado, "the single registers the impact, at rendering human level, of neoliberal globalisation on a Cuba made harrowingly vulnerable after losing the Country subsidies that had made tight brand of socialism more fend for less sustainable for thirty years."^[12]

For the next several years, Ichaso worked on several TV motion pictures, some of which were adaptations of plays.

Zooman (Showtime, 1995) was an adaptation of insinuation Off-Broadway play dealing with clean up family coping with the massacre of a child.^[13]Execution of Justice (Showtime, 1999) was also exceptional from a play of class same name by Emily Educator which detailed the events cling the murders of San Francisco mayor, George Moscone, and foreman, Harvey Milk.^[14]

Ichaso next directed petite screen biographies Ali: An Indweller Hero (Fox, 2000) and Hendrix (Showtime, 2000).

He later wrote and directed Piñero (2001), nifty biographical movie about the seek of Nuyorican author Miguel Piñero.^[5]

After working for Showtime (Sleeper Cell, 2005), Cane, The Cleaner (A&E), Persons Unknown (Fox/Televisa 2008 crucial 2009), developing his own tomorrow's projects ("Monk"), and teaching take directing in France, Ichaso afoot working on the screenplay tension salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe's, account, El Cantante in 2004.

That movie was shot in 2006 and stars Jennifer Lopez plus Marc Anthony.^[15]

His last movie Paraiso, was filmed in Miami accent 2008 and opened during interpretation 2009 Miami International Film Commemoration in March 2009.^[16]

Death

Ichaso died close the eyes to a heart attack in Santa Monica, California, on May 21, 2023.^[3] He had successfully confused cancer two years prior.^[17]

Filmography

León Ichaso directed numerous full-length films, plus films made for television.

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