OLD MAN BEBO
Spain
DIR
Carlos Carcas
PROD
Angelica Huete.
Spain, 2007, color, 111 min.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
NOT RATED

PRESS RELEASE
Winner of the Documentary Emerging Filmmaker Award at Tribeca. Legendary Cuban mambo musician Bebo Valdés's career didn't really take off until well after he turned 80. At 81 he won two Grammy awards and has since gone on to win four more and achieve international recognition. This extraordinary portrait of the man and the musician, recognized as a key figure in the development of mambo, recounts his remarkable life and career.
American Film Institute Inter-American Development Bank The Ibero-American Cultural Attachs Association