Director alan gilsenan is giving the last brushstrokes to the film Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay, a footage that tells us the love story between the beautiful Eliza and Francisco Solano López, president of Paraguay.
She was the most famous woman in South America during the XNUMXth century and, as her enemies claimed, the most unworthy. The film is based on the biography of Michael Lillis and Ronan Fanning entitled The Lives of Eliza Lynch.
The film is produced by Stuart Switzer for the Irish company Coco Television and has the support of the Irish Film Board, Broadcasting Commission of Ireland Sound & Vision Fund, Ireland's tax incentive program, RTE, Abbeyfield Group ans Sudameris Bank and Hibernia Misiones of Paraguay, come on ... that funding and support have not been lacking.
The actress who gives life to the elderly Lynch is the Irish María Doyle Kennedy and during her youth, she will be played by the Paraguayan model and Olympic athlete Leryn Franco. The footage has been shot in different locations in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, France, England and Ireland and will be screened exclusively first for the president of Paraguay on the 10th in Asunción.
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Source - Cin-Europe