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Producer/Writer/Director
Orestes Matacena with partner Producer Orna Rachovitsky
shooting on location in the California desert
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Orestes
Matacena has worked as an actor with high profile directors
on films, television and commercials including Charles “Chuck” Russell,
Barry Sonnenfeld, Doug Liman, John Milius, Marcus Nispel,
Michael Ritchie, John Fortenberry, Leon Ichaso, Kim Manners,
Armand Mastroianni, Leslie Dektor, Peter Bloomfield and
the great artist Bill Viola.
Orestes first ventured into films
at the age of six when he worked as an actor
in "The Life of Billy the Kid," with
a cast comprised only of children. The movie
was shot at the Mercedes Sugar Mill in Matanzas,
Cuba, where he lived with his parents.
As a film actor Orestes has played
the antagonist in many Hollywood Studio films
such as “The Mask” starring Jim Carrey
and “Diggstown” with James Woods
and Lou Gossett Jr. just to name a couple.
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In
the advertising world, Orestes has worked in 37 commercials
so far (2007), nine of them directed by Marcus Nispel.
The New York Museum of Modern Art has made Mr. Nispel’s
body of work part of its Permanent Collection. Thanks
to Mr. Nispel’s artistic endeavor, Orestes is part
of that wonderful collection.
Orestes
is well known for not taking “no” for
an answer. He raised the capital to produce and
direct a feature movie from a screenplay he wrote
called “Tainted.” However, he decided
that rather than consuming his time finding investors
to bankroll his movies he would finance them himself
and use that time to sharpen his creative vision.
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Orestes
is, as the French would say, a real film auteur. His
body of work to date (2007) as a filmmaker includes “In
Plain View,” “Sex Guns Money @ 20,” “Cuba
Libre,” “Fatal Encounter,” “Tainted,” “James
Gilbert Albright and the Haunted Studio,” “The
Two Faces of Ruben Rabasa,” “Aguabella” and “Theater
in the Parks.” He has written, directed, produced
and edited almost all of his work.
In
1968, Orestes wrote his first play, “The
Gym.” Since then, he expanded his versatility
as a playwright and screenwriter with three plays
and more than twenty five screenplays and various
television concepts to his credit to date (2007).
His writing encompasses a variety of styles: thrillers,
dramas, comedies, horror and action-adventures.
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“Bitter
Sugar,” a movie Orestes wrote for Hollywood director
Leon Ichaso about a young couple living under the Cuban
Communist Tyranny, opened to excellent reviews and was
shown to the Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland
and to the United States Congress. For Orestes this was
a spiritual and rewarding experience.
Orestes was born in Cuba to Italian immigrants
and grew up on a sugar mill plantation where the
country and all kinds of animals, especially horses,
were a large part of his life. He describes himself
as a "third world country boy." But his
business partner, Orna Rachovitsky, says he is
a “hillbilly in an Armani suit.”
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As
a teenager Orestes was part of the resistance fighting
to overthrow the Cuban tyrant and billionaire (according
to Fortune Magazine, May 5, 2006) Fidel Castro and his
despotic Communist Regime, in order to establish freedom
and a real Democracy on the island.
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