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Long wanting to become a film director, Leon, along with friend and co-screenwriter Manuel Arce, and cinematographer and co-director Orlando Jiménez Leal, realized his ambition with the low-budget feature-length comedy-drama EL SUPER (1979), which would be hailed by The Miami Herald as “the ultimate Cuban exile film.”
- Film Forum · EL SUPER
Screenplay by Leon Ichaso and Manuel Arce Approx. 90 min....
- Film Forum · CROSSOVER DREAMS
Screenplay by Leon Ichaso and Manuel Arce Approx. 86 min....
- Film Forum · EL SUPER
Screenplay by Leon Ichaso and Manuel Arce Approx. 90 min. DCP courtesy Manuel Arce. Shot entirely in NYC on the streets and in real apartments, with its characters largely speaking Spanish (a first for an American independent film), EL SUPER is the story of 42-year-old Cuban exile Roberto, superintendent of a large Washington Heights apartment ...
Screenplay by Leon Ichaso and Manuel Arce Approx. 86 min. 16mm print courtesy Manuel Arce. Coinciding with the Latin music explosion in popular culture, Ichaso’s second film, CROSSOVER DREAMS, set largely in East Harlem, follows a salsa singer on his rise from obscurity to the mainstream and back.
Leon Ichaso (August 3, 1948 – May 21, 2023) was a Cuban-born American writer and film director. Some of his prominent works included El Super, Crossover Dreams, Bitter Sugar, Piñero, and El Cantante.
Ivan Acosta's play El Super inspired the neatly crafted, economical script by Leon Ichaso and Manuel Arce, which pinpoints the liveliness, self-mocking: humor and frankness in the way Cubans behave with each ottler.
El Súper is a 1979 Spanish-language comedy-drama film directed by Leon Ichaso and Orlando Jiménez Leal, based on a stage play by Iván Acosta. The film is a look at life in the U.S. from the perspective of frustrated Cuban exiles.
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Jan 9, 2024 · ñ spoke to the wonderful Manuel Arce, co-writer and Producer of El Super and Crossover Dreams on the newest ep of the ñ podcast – its a talk not to be missed with the incredibly talented Mr. Arce – we speak about Leon Ichaso’s work – which is having a retrospective this month at Film […]
