Tributes

Ellis Pérez

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Ellis Pérez, quien recientemente cumplió cincuenta años de dedicación al trabajo en los medios de comunicación, carrera que según afirma no ha sido tarea fácil, pero sí de muchos logros.

Se inicia en el área en 1953, en la emisora HIZ, con la transmisión en inglés del “Hit Parade, una selección de las canciones más populares de la semana en Estados Unidos, marcando así, el comienzo de la revolución de la música juvenil de la época en el país.

“Yo hice carrera sin condiciones básicas, pero aprendí a hacer mi trabajo, porque para ese tiempo HIZ era un nido de los mejores exponentes de la locución dominicana””.

Expresa que no fue algo buscado, porque lo menos que había pensado en su vida era ser locutor y llegar a ser un hombre de los medios de comunicación.

En el 1964 se instala en la Radio Universal con la transmisión de “American Music”, una programación que incluía los discos más actualizados de la música norteamericana de entonces.

Explica que su experiencia ha sido muy gratificante, una universidad continua, porque para estar en los medios, si se va a realizar un trabajo de manera efectiva uno tiene que educarse adecuadamente y mantener ese proceso de educación continua para de esa manera, enriquecer el intelecto y la condición de comunicador.

“Doy gracias a Dios por enriquecerme en el área y por ser un comunicador. He tenido la oportunidad de ligar las profesiones de comunicador y turismo, y la oportunidad de darme a la gente y enriquecerme culturalmente, cuya riqueza no tiene precio””.

Aclara que para alcanzar el éxito en cualquier actividad por simple que sea, no debe faltar el sentido de dedicación a lo que se hace, el sentido de compromiso y de identificación fácil.

Expresa que en el área de la comunicación hay que cuidar la dicción, redacción, apariencia y forma en que se dirige al público, pero si las cosas se hacen con sentido de seriedad, compromiso y dedicación, el final de la tarea será positivo.

Recomienda a los futuros profesionales de la comunicación a prepararse y sacrificarse en ciertas ocasiones para lograr el éxito, porque la vida está llena de triunfos.“

“He trabajado en mis propios proyectos desde el año 1959, cuando me marché de turismo y regresé en 1963, para entonces instalar a Radio Universal. Me he sentido muy independiente y soy independiente. Generalmente me he involucrado en más de 2, 3 ó 4 diferentes pequeñas cosas para mantener esa condición de independencia”.

Fue director de comunicaciones del Aeropuertos Dominicanos (AERODOM); asesor turístico del Poder Ejecutivo; asesor turístico del Senado de la República; asesor del Proyecto Turístico Playa Macao, dentro del área del sector privado y miembro del Consejo de Directores del Proyecto Cap Cana.

Gusta de la lectura de Mario Vargas Llosa y Gabriel García Márquez, por ser los relatores de esta época en Latinoamérica. De Vargas Llosa me atrae su interés por la sociedad y su mantenimiento sobre el tapete a través de sus trabajos periodísticos. Es un analista agudo muy racional e inteligente.

Sin embargo, siendo muy joven leyó “Los factores del triunfo”, cuyo contenido es de realización personal; de la autoría de Waldo Swingle, del cual tuvo un impacto extraordinario.

“Ese libro me ayudó a forjarme y formarme en algunos de mis criterios de vida, que luego habrían de moldear mi estilo y es por eso que esa obra nunca la olvido”. En su libro, Swingle, planteaba todas esas pequeñas y simples cosas de que nada viene fácil, que todo requiere dedicación, trabajo, persistencia y esfuerzo”.

Para Pérez, el gran artista de esta época en República Dominicana lo es Juan Luis Guerra, por poseer los elementos y condiciones en formación y sentimiento. “Juan Luis es un artista extraordinario y un orgullo de nosotros los dominicanos en diferentes aspectos”.

Señala que Charitín Goico también debe ser orgullo de los dominicanos, porque ha tenido una carrera extraordinaria, así como Rhina Ramírez. Además, admira la durabilidad de Niní Cáffaro. “Fui miembro del jurado del Primer Festival de la Canción Dominicana, donde Niní Cáffaro participó y se eligió la canción “Por amor”.

Don Ellis Pérez dedica su tiempo libre a escuchar música de Rafael Solano. “No lo digo por la amistad que nos une, sino por su real condición de gran músico y el sentido musical que ha tenido toda su vida”.

Ellis, como se le conoce artísticamente, es una persona que no guarda reconocimientos. Si no puede dar una impresión en los primeros minutos de una interacción, entonces considera no haber realizado su trabajo. Actualmente es el director Dirección General de Cine República Dominicana.

 

Tribute to Delia Fiallo

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Two Thousand million viewers shared the joys and tears of the characters in the telenovelas created by Delia Fiallo, the great pioneer of entertainment on television, a genre that through her pen has brought millions of dollars for the television industry on four continents.

A tireless worker, has spent most of her life behind a typewriter, instrument where with great imagination gave birth to about 35 works which are then multiplied in several versions and adaptations that include productions winners as Esmeralda, Marielena, Guadalupe, Cristal, Kassandra, Topaz, La Señorita Elena, a girl named Milagros, Leonela, Morelia in a list that represents the audience to the remembrance of three generations who have shared the joys and anxieties of her heroines against their villains, and ultimately lessons have been learned for application in their own lives.

Some of these messages are glaring. The first, love always triumphs over all odds. Second, the importance of honesty and dreams. The third, that evil is always paid in this life.

Always with a positive message and the importance of values, kindness, loyalty, compassion, friendship, respect for family feelings, you can find a range of human qualities than the pen of this writer protrudes through the lives of her characters.

This “literature of the feelings”, as she calls the genre that has grown by more than four decades, is rooted in a strong literary background, Delia Fiallo is a graduate in Philosophy and Letters at the University of Havana. She had a promising career in the world of books when she discovered what she calls “a fascinating world of magic to tell a story and get her to the heart of the people”.

First, these emotions would arrive on the radio, through the voices and sounds. Later, with the birth of television, these stories would recreate images and the characters went on to become part of life in households where the family gathered together to watch the telenovelas, as still happens today.

Like the characters in her telenovelas the story begins when, the only daughter of a doctor and a nurse is born in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. From there, like the protagonists of her fantasies brought to the screen as a child she used to watch the train go by and dreamt of traveling in search of her destiny. At 14 she moved with her family to Havana, and she was “full of hopes and challenges and also with my timidity and provincial complex”. In her long hours of solitude, was an avid reader. She remembers that after high school had a desire to study veterinary medicine, but to please her mom ended up getting a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Letters.

In 1948 she won the renowned International Prize for Literature Hernández Catá. But because she was attracted by the mass media and begins to develop a radio novel in a space called “Tierra Adentro”. When television emerges she makes the transition to this new and fascinating medium.

She wrote the first continuous series that aired in primetime in Latin America for Palmolive, as an experiment. It was called “Hasta que la muerte nos separe”, consisted of 16 chapters first broadcasted by CMQ in 1957. By then falls for the director of her novelas, Bernardo Pascual, the marriage is celebrating its 54th anniversary, out of which five children and thirteen grand children are born.

Of her production in Cuba, securing step by step the traditional telenovela genre, surge “Soraya”, “El ángel perverso”- better known as “Estrellita” – and a series with a historical touch as “Cuando se quiere un enemigo”, “Bajo el cielo de Argelia”, “Indio” and “México Indómito”, among others. She also writes a popular adventure series that was titled “The Spirit” and soon became an international success.

However, the Cuban goverment accuses her of “counter revolution” with her telenovelas and punish her for a year without being able to write.

After that time she is only allowed to do children’s story adaptations in a program called “Los Muñecones”. On Christmas Eve in 1966 she finally gets out into exile with her family in the so-called “Freedom Flights”, claimed by her eldest daughter who had emigrated to the United States.

After that time she is only allowed to do children’s story adaptations in a program called “Los Muñecones”. On Christmas Eve in 1966 she finally gets out into exile with her family in the so-called “Freedom Flights”, claimed by her eldest daughter who had emigrated to the United States.

Looking for proximity to her homeland and hoping for a return that never happened, she settled in Miami where she began a new phase of her life and opened the doors of the international market starting with Venezuela with “Esmeralda” in 1970, starring Lupita Ferrer and José Bardina. The success of that telenovela was instantaneous with millions of viewers across the continent. Televisa would make a “remake” of this telenovela Twenty seven years later. It was also made in Brazil by SBT in 2004, and one version was “Topacio” made in Venezuela in 1984 by Radio Caracas Television.

Since then she has worked tirelessly in a career in which the main ingredients are love and the responsibility that she puts into making her work and especially in its themes and characters.

“It is true that I have given my career a good part of my life, but I can not complain because this difficult and loved task to tell stories has given me great satisfaction”, she says, noting that her biggest struggle has been to find that in many of her telenovela “remakes” asks for respect of the original texts and the character of her characters.

Success after success her telenovelas have proven to be winners in an industry that depends on the ratings, conquering always the top places. “Cristal” topped the ratings in Spanish television. “Kassandra” has passed into the Guinness Book of Records as the best-selling telenovela of all time having been transmitted in 159 countries and translated into 22 languages.

The recognitions were not long in coming and has won two “Ondas” of Spain, also received a medal of recognition of MIP Festival Cannes, France and for four years was invited to lecture on telenovela forums held in El Escorial, Madrid.

The outstanding writer recalls that when she began her career writing in this genre, there was a suspicion about the role of telenovelas in the mass media. Now occupies the place it deserves and is the subject of study in prestigious universities as a manifestation of popular culture and one of the main engines of the television industry.

Tribute to Cassianoo Gabus Mendes (1927-1993)

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Cassianoo Gabus Mendes

Cassiano Gabus Mendes was an innovator of Brazilian television as he infused humor into all his characters, this being a distinctive characteristic in all the telenovelas he created throughout his career.

In 1966 he wrote his first telenovela “El amor tiene cara de mujer” (original by the Argentine Nene Cascallar) and in 1968, he created the compendium that transformed and altered the Brazilian telenovela structure, in blending with cleverness drama and humor in the anti-hero character in “Beto Rockefeller”.

This man commenced in television next to the first Brazilian company, TV Tupi (1950),
Cassiano-Gabus-3where he collaborated  as a production assistant, became a producer where he flourished, and devoted to become a novelist and become the first artistic director of the Brazilian television. His first creation was the series “Alo, Docura!”, and on the air from 1953 until 1964.

Already in Rede Globo, in 1977, he writes what would be labeled the second phase in the modernization of the telenovela genre: “Locomotivas”. He also completed other successful productions until 1993, year in which he released his last work work, “O Mapa da Mina” (1933).

Cassiano-Gabus-2Cassiano Gabus scripts were also produced in Chile, especially for Universidad Catolica  and TV Nacional of Chile, between 1986 and 1996. His work currently is a source of inspiration for a new success, the new version of “Ti Ti Ti”, written by Maria Adelaide Amaral.

Cassiano Gabus Mendes is the father of two major actors: Cassio Gabus Mendes and Tato Gabus Mendes.

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