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Avenol A. Franco


Avenol A. Franco, a native New Yorker, born to Cuban refugees, Avenol is a commercial (television ads) producer by trade working on both national and international television commercials. He has also staged special events, concerts, theatre and worked on television programs and movies thru-out the years with personalities like Cachao, Paquito D’Rivera, Andy Garcia, Graciela, Taj Mahal, Marco Rizo, Chocolate, Candido, Robert Duvall, Albita, Tony Bennett, Guillermo Cabrera-Infante, Matt Dillon, Chico O’Farrill, Las Hermanas Marquez and many others. But his heart is in the independent film world where he is writer, producer and director of documentary shorts that pertain culturally to his heritage. Most of his short films have been either televised or viewed throughout various countries and concern music as a primary subject. He is currently working on a feature length documentary on the legendary Cuban singer Graciela who performed with the historic orchestras of Anacaona, Machito and Mario Bauza, throughout her illustrious 75year career.



Avenol A. Franco, nacido en Nueva York, hijo de exilados cubanos. Avenol es un productor de Comerciales para la television Norteamericana asi como otros proyectos interncionales. El ha producido numerosos eventos, conciertos, obras teatrales asi como progamas de television. Entre sus experiencias, Hispanas y Anglo, cuenta haber trabajado con luminaries como Cachao, Paquito D’Rivera, Andy Garcia, Graciela, Robert Duvall, Marco Rizo, Albita, Guillermo Cabrera-Infante, Tony Bennett, Taj Mahal, Matt Dillon, Chico O’Farrill y muchos otros. Pero su corazon esta principalmente en el mundo de las peliculas independientes donde el es escritor, productor y director de documentales cortos que reflejan la epoca en que vivimos. Muchos de sus documentales cortos han sido televisado en paises hacienda de la musica su objeto principal.

El esta trabajando en estos momentos en un documental, largo metraje, sobre la legendaria cantante cubana, Graciela, que canto con las historicas orquestras: Anacaona, Machito y Mario Bauza a traves de una larga carrera de setenta-cinco anos.

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