Pinar del Rio-Cuba, December 10 (AIN) A movie about the social relations of famous Cuban singer Polo Montañez, who recently died as a result of a fatal car accident, will start to be filmed by the beginning of next year in the island.

Young Cuban TV-maker Armando Arencibia will be the director of the film, which will be released on video. He will be working in the screenplay with Raúl Damas, Polo’s self-representative -a farmer that was born within a family of woodcutters in the "Sierra del Rosario" mountain range, in the northeastern part of Pinar del Rio province.

This will be a fiction movie; it will not have a biographical or documentary character, but it surely will have the songs written and sung by the third Cuban who ever won a platinum disc with popular music. They plan to make a one-and-a-half-hour movie.

Arencibia perfectly knows Polo’s work, for he had the chance to make some video-clips with the famous music creator. The movie will be sponsored by the Cuban Radio and Television Institute and they plan to include Polo’s group in the filming; as well as some guest actors, such as Ramoncitín Veloz, Dianelis Brito and a few others from Pinar del Rio.

Polo Montañez -whose real name was Fernando Borrego Linares- died last November 26th, but he left two CD’s for farm and popular music fans: his awarded "Guajiro Natural" (Native Farmer) and "Guitarra Mía" (Guitar of Mine); both recorded by French disc company "Lusáfrica".

(AIN) 10-12-2003