A COFFEE FOR GABO

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A COFFEE FOR GABO

UN CAFE PARA GABO

By Danny HOLGUIN, Hernando OLIVARES

DHO STUDIOS - as PROD

True Story - Pre-Production 2025

A Coffee for Gabo marks a groundbreaking milestone as the first film that unveils the untold story of Gabriel García Márquez, the iconic Latin American author and Nobel Prize in Literature. Gabo is an internationally renowned writer whose books have been translated into more than 45 languaguages.

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- True Story, First film
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- SPANISH-COLOMBIAN
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Danny HOLGUIN, Hernando OLIVARES
- Writer(s)
- Hernando OLIVARES
- Cast
- Ernesto REYES, Hector MEDINA
- Producer(s)
- Danny HOLGUIN (DHO Studios)
- Synopsis
- The film in progress, “A Coffee for Gabo”, tells the story of a young Gabriel Garcia Marquez depicting how he becomes a Literature Nobel Prize. The young newspaper reporter forms a deep bond with an illiterate orphan boy named Mingo. Their friendship helps them overcome life's challenges and achieve success through their shared love for literature.
- Partners & financing
- DHO Studios, a Florida-based company, is currently seeking financial partners to fund our upcoming film project.
- Production schedule
- We are still working on the production schedule, but the film script is complete, and location scouting, script breakdown, and filming script are done. Notable actors, including Ernesto Reyes and Héctor Medina, have shown interest in the project. Casting is ongoing, and a producer has been secured.
- Beginning of shooting
- Jan 12, 2026
- End of shooting
- Feb 15, 2026