Maribel Ramos-Weiner
Olympusat, Inc. has acquired Guillermo Calderóns library of classic Spanish-language motion pictures for restoration and broadcast to across all platforms available.Olympusats Film Restoration department, which has been restoring hundreds of classic movies for nearly four years, is bringing iconic Mexican films back to life from the 40s 50s and 60s from Calderóns library, including classics such as La Aventurera (1950) starring late Cuban iconic actress Ninon Sevilla, La Ilegítima (1956) and La Rondalla (1949). The 35mm films, optically scanned to 2k, are restored frame by frame to their original luster. Its painstaking work. After all these decades, the films are in pretty bad shape, said Jim Wicks, senior colorist and manager of Film Restoration Services at Olympusat. “We are giving them new life and bringing them to a new audience of film fans in the 21st Century.