Itzia, Tango y Cacao | BLOCK L
Itzia is a deaf woman who assures to have started listening to a mysterious music that always comes from the same cardinal point: south. The villagers fear Itzia is starting to lose her mind and they encourage her to visit a doctor. But instead, Itzia decides to follow those melodies that only she can hear. This music could return her to a place she has long forgotten.
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Director Biography - Flora Martinez
Flora is an actress, singer, director and producer.From a very young age she showed interest in acting, dancing and singing.
At 14 she debuted in Colombian television, becoming the first female actress to star at such a young age, and from then on, she has had a career filled with big television hits “María Bonita”, “Leche”, “La Otra Mitad Del Sol”, “Mambo”, “Vecinos”, “La Bruja”, among others.
In 1999, her first film “Soplo De Vida”, brought her “Best Actress” award at the Biarritz Film Festival (France). In 2000 she moved to New York to further her studies in music and acting at the Actors Conservatory where she resided five years, participating in films and TV shows such as “Law and Order”, “I´m With Lucy”, among others.
In 2003 Flora stars in one of the most important movies in Latin America´s history, after winning an audition among 400 female candidates, the adaptation of the book ¨Rosario Tijeras¨ by Jorge Franco. In this film Flora brings to life a beautiful hit woman from Medellin, for which she was awarded “Best Actress” in Spain, France Monaco and Colombia. The nomination of “Rosario Tijeras” to the Spanish Goya Awards brought her to Spain in 2006, where she remained living after meeting Jose Reinoso, the renowned Uruguayan jazz pianist and producer (Buika, Calamaro, Perales, Morente, Poveda, Luz Casal, Chico Novarro, Luis Salinas, Rosa Passos, Ivan Lins, Karen Souza) to whom she is actually married and with whom she has her children.
Legendary Spanish directors such as Vicente Aranda and Bigas Luna described Flora as an “authentic cinematographic beast”.
