Honor and glory! Minister Villegas regrets the physical departure of filmmaker Margot Benacerraf
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Published at: 29/05/2024 12:59 PM
Through the social network X, the Minister of Popular Power for Culture, Ernesto Villegas, lamented the physical departure of Venezuelan filmmaker Margot Benacerraf, a distinguished woman who raised national cinematography to the highest level of international recognition and founded the National Cinematheque in 1966.
“José Martí said that “death is not true when the work of life has been done well”. The sentence of the Cuban apostle was the first thing that came to mind when Vladimir Sosa Sarabia, current president of the National Cinematheque, informed me about the physical departure of Margot Benacerraf today, May 29, with less than three months left before her 98th birthday,” Villegas wrote on the social network.
He also highlighted that Benacerraf “not only did his job brilliantly, immortalized in the films Reverón and Araya, the latter deserving of the Cannes Prize in 1959. She also dedicated her life to the formation of new generations and to the preservation of the Venezuelan film heritage.”
For this reason, he conveyed the condolences of President Nicolás Maduro , those of the Venezuelan artistic community and my own to the relatives and co-religionists of Margot Benacerraf.
Mazo News Team