Monaco Premiere of Rosario Tijeras a Gala Presentation

Paris – March 2007 'ROSARIO TIJERAS, the Colombian blockbuster will receive its Madagascan premiere as a Gala Presentation at the 2nd Edition of the Monaco Charity Film Festival. Starring Colombian actors Flora Martinez and Manolo Cardona together with the Spanish actor Unax Ugalde, “Rosario Tijeras “ is the endless tale of humanity; love, betrayal, death and redemption.
Medellín at night, slow blinking lights seem like a beating heart that loves and wants to continue loving. Antonio and Emilio, friends since childhood gather in a discotheque, and they meet her there. Who is this temptation’s embodiment? It’s Rosario. Rosario, who has always known a way of living soon finds another road. Antonio the shy one, and Emilio the lover, both succumb over this woman’s sensuality and she succumbs over their innocence and nerves.
And so, under the city clouds, the roaring of it’s mountains and a blue sky for a sealing, Rosario, Antonio and Emilio will love, destroy and mend each other’s broken stitches. They will create a relationship where there couldn’t be one, and they will give each other what they are looking for.

They all loved her, some had her, but she only gave her heart to one of them, Antonio, death and love walking hand by hand. Rosario was killed by a bullet shot a long time ago that forced her to run until she got tired, until she couldn’t stand it and let go.

As compelling as it is strangely poignant, “Rosario Tijeras” takes the love-story film and spins it on its head while creating a story that is original and genuinely moving.

Based on the novel written by acclaimed Colombian writer Jorge Franco and directed by Emilio Maille “Rosario Tijeras “ has been applauded by audiences and critics from AFI Fest 2005, is produced the Muestra Internacional de Cine de Sao Paulo, the Muestra de Cine Mexicano in Argentina, the Festival Internacional de Cine de La Habana, the Washington Latin American Film Festival, the New York Havana Film Festival, the San Diego Latino Film Festival, the Muestra Internacional de Cine de México, the Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia, the Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara, the Muestra de Cine Colombiano en México, the Toronto Film Festival, the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, the Discovering Latin America Film Festival, in London; Film’s From The South Festival, in Norway; Fest Ceal in Belgium, Helsinki International Film Festival in Finland, Polish Film Festival, in Poland; Latina American International Film Festival in the Netherlands and in the Sydney Latino Film Festival. The film has also participated in the Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena, in the Festival de Cine de Málaga and in the Biarritz Film Festival where it was awarded several prizes. Additionally it was nominated for the Goya Awards as Best Foreign Picture in 2006.

Gala Presentations at The Monaco Charity Film Festival are made possible through the sponsorship of The Pentium Fund
http://www.monacofilmfestival.org

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For further information please contact:
1) Ms. Isabel Echeverry
Telephone number: 310 498 3610
Email: isabel@rebercovington.net

2) Mr. Vicente-Andres Zaragoza
Telephone: +336 07 51 88 88
Email: vz@pentiumgroup.com