Right now at the Cannes Film Festival, Argentina is in the spotlight with the film Maradona by Kusturica. Diego Maradona is Argentina’s most famous soccer player. He won numerous championships with Argentine and international teams and tied with the great Brazilian player Pele for the title of FIFA Player of the Century. The film features new footage with Maradona as well as archive material and chronicles his rise to stardom, his years as a soccer player for Boca Juniors and beyond, and the life of alcoholism, drugs, weight gain and struggle that followed. Now back on his feet, this film by Serbio-Croation director Emir Kusturica is a tribute to the soccer player’s physical and spiritual recovery. Currently, Maradona is a television host in Argentina and continues to be one of the most iconic figures in Argentine culture.
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Diego Maradona did a PSA for a new campaign called Burma: It Can’t wait with the US Campaign for Burma and the Human Rights Action Center. Maradona graciously did a REALLY amazing short film spot which went live last week, where he speaks out against the atrocities performed by the Burmese military junta. We are using videos like Maradona’s spread awareness of the terrorization of the people of Burma behind closed doors (70,000 child soldiers, 2x more villages burned than in Darfur, torture and massacre of monks, systematic rape- and that was before the most recent crime of denying aid to desperate victims of the Myanmar cyclone, resulting in 100,000 deaths). The idea is to get 30 celebrities to be in 30 short films rolling out over the month of May. In addition to Maradona’s, also up are Mana, Jennifer Aniston & Woody Harrelson, Will Ferrell, Sarah Silverman, and Eddie Izzard – it’s a really cool campaign.
check out the videos and sign up for the campaign:
http://www.burmaitcantwait.org
http://www.youtube.com/user/uscampaignforburma
http://apps.facebook.com/burmaitcantwait/
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