The Cuban actor Omar Alí has just finished filming the scenes of the movie El Camino scheduled to be shot in the Spanish city of Madrid.
Omar, known for his character as an officer from the Ministry of the Interior in the series Tras la Huella, stepped behind the camera to direct a film based on a script by his daughter, Daniela Alí Pérez, in which his wife, the also actress Iris Pérez, worked as an acting coach.
It is a feature film for television co-produced by ICAIC, the Cubavisión channel, and the Cuban production company i4_films, consisting of seven stories ranging from 10 to 12 minutes set in different eras.
"Seven stories dedicated to the youth, the brave ones who have starred in the most honorable pages of our history, from the mambises to the present. These will be linked together, and some of the characters reappear in the different times traveled by the feature film," explained Iris Pérez to the Cuban television portal.
"Although there will be seven sensorially different stories, with distinct dramatic forms, the team seeks formal coherence in the feature film," he clarified.
The movie has about 28 characters, with eight leading roles played by Milton García, Andro Perugorría, Roberto Romero, Abel Molina, Eugenio Torroella, Daniela Leyva, Amalia Gaute, and Juannalise Ricardo.
In addition, Carlos Busto, David Pereira, Lola Amores, Miriam Alameda, Roberto Perdomo, José Ignacio León, Doimeadiós, Mario Guerra, Patricio Wood, Fernando Hechavarría, among others, participate.
Omar Alí has directed for television before. He has made several episodes of Tras la Huella, documentaries, the TV films Trigo Verde and Decisiones, and has co-directed the comedy Vivir del Cuento.
Recently, he was heavily criticized for stating in an interview that freedom is personal, that he can be as free as he wants to be, and that being free is not linked to politics.
"I think that freedom, above all, is individual, it belongs to one person, it is personal, and one is as free as one desires and as one is and wants. It is a big word, very manipulated," said actress Maikel Amelia on the program Cara a cara, from the YouTube channel La Familia Cubana.
"One is free when one is able to do and feel what one wants to do and feel," the actor emphasized, before adding that freedom "has nothing to do with politics," but rather with oneself.
"Freedom is personal, and there is a tendency in the world not to respect personal liberties, because I don't have to think like anyone else. I think the way I do, and the only thing I want is for you to respect that criterion," she emphasized.
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