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((Short description|Cuban-born American writer and film director (1948–2023)))
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((Infobox person
| name               = Leon Ichaso
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| birth_date         = ((birth date|1948|08|03))
| birth_place        = [[Havana]], [[Republic of Cuba (1902–1959)|Cuba]]
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| death_place        = [[Santa Monica, California]], U.S.
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'''Leon Ichaso''' (August 3, 1948 – May 21, 2023) was a Cuban-born American writer and film director. Some of his prominent works include ''[[El Super]]'', ''[[Crossover Dreams]]'', ''[[Azúcar Amarga|Bitter Sugar]],'' ''[[Piñero]]'', and ''[[El Cantante]]''.<ref name=Ojito>((Cite news |last=Ojito |first=Mirta |date=2007-07-29 |title=The Scorsese of Salseros in New York |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/movies/29ojit.html |access-date=2011-07-10 |issn=0362-4331))</ref><ref>((Cite web |title=Leon Ichaso - Rotten Tomatoes |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/leon_ichaso |access-date=2022-08-19 |website=www.rottentomatoes.com |language=en))</ref><ref name=Genzlinger>((Cite news |last=Genzlinger |first=Neil |date=2023-05-24 |title=Leon Ichaso, Whose Films Explored Latino Identity, Dies at 74|language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/movies/leon-ichaso-dead.html |access-date=2023-05-24 |issn=0362-4331))</ref><ref>Baugh, Scott L. "Ichaso, Leon (1948–)." ''Latino American Cinema: An Encyclopedia of Movies, Stars, Concepts, and Trends.'' Greenwood, 2012, pp. 134-135. ((isbn|0313380368))</ref>

==Biography==
===Early life===
Leon Ichaso was born in [[Havana|Havana, Cuba]] on August 3, 1948.<ref name=IMDb>((Cite web|title=Leon Ichaso|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0406687/bio|access-date=2021-07-15|website=IMDb))</ref> Ichaso migrated to Mexico at the age of 14 and then to the United States with his mother Antonia Ichaso, and sister Mari Rodriguez Ichaso. His father, poet and journalist Justo Rodriguez Santos, who had affiliations with the ''Orígenes'' literary group, initially stayed behind in Cuba to support the [[Cuban Revolution]].<ref name=Ojito/><ref name=Genzlinger/><ref>Fernández de Cano, J. R. [https://www.mcnbiografias.com/app-bio/do/show?key=rodriguez-santos-justo "Rodríguez Santos, Justo (1915-1999)."] ''MCNBiografias.com.'' Retrieved 4 July 2023.</ref> Five years later, Ichaso's father joined his family in New York City.<ref>((Cite news |last=Ojito |first=Mirta |date=2007-07-30 |title=Leon Ichaso captures the poetry of Latin New York in new film |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/30/arts/30iht-salsa.1.6893095.html |access-date=2022-12-26 |issn=0362-4331))</ref>

===Career===
As a director, Leon Ichaso's first movie was the Spanish-language feature ''[[El Super]]'' (1979), based on an [[Off-Broadway]] play about an immigrant building superintendent trying to make his way in New York, which he co-directed with Orlando Jiménez Leal.<ref>((Cite web |last=ctosadmin |date=1970-01-01 |title=Ichaso, Leon |url=https://cubansinamerica.us/prominent-cuban-americans/art-entertainment/leon-ichaso/ |access-date=2022-12-26 |website=Cubans in America |language=es))</ref> 

When entering the [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] scene, Ichaso told stories of the big city slotted into action series on TV (e.g., ''Miami Vice'', ''Crime Story'', ''The Equalizer'') and TV movies such as ''[[The Fear Inside (film)|The Fear Inside]]'', ''The Take'', ''A Table at Ciro's'' and ''A Kiss to Die For''. Ichaso later directed Wesley Snipes's ''[[Sugar Hill (1994 film)|Sugar Hill]]'' (1994), a character study wedded to a violent crime drama of a New York drug empire.<ref>((Cite web |title=Leon Ichaso |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/91689%7C0/Leon-Ichaso |access-date=2022-12-26 |website=www.tcm.com |language=en))</ref>

Ichaso made ''[[Azúcar Amarga]]'' (''Bitter Sugar''), a Spanish language film about a disillusioned Cuban Communist, in the [[Dominican Republic]] and [[Cuba]] in 1996.<ref>Gonzalez, David. [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/nyregion/as-a-movie-about-cuba-resurfaces-so-do-a-filmmakers-thoughts-of-his-homeland.html#:~:text=Thirty%20years%20ago%2C%20Leon%20Ichaso,as%20an%20ambitious%20salsa%20singer. "Filmmaker Won't Weep for the Cuba He Left Behind."] ''New York Times'', 16 Mar. 2015, p. A16(L). Retrieved 2023-07-04.</ref><ref>((Cite news |date=1964-03-08 |title=Disillusioned And Defiant; Fidel Castro & Company, Inc.: Communist Tyranny in Cuba. By Manuel Urrutia Lléo. 217 pp. New York: Frederick A. Praeger. $5.95. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/08/archives/disillusioned-and-defiant-fidel-castro-company-inc-communist.html |access-date=2022-12-26 |issn=0362-4331))</ref> According to César A. Salgado, "the film registers the impact, at the human level, of neoliberal globalization on a Cuba made harrowingly vulnerable after losing the Soviet subsidies that had made its brand of socialism more or less sustainable for thirty years."<ref>Salgado, César A. [https://cubacounterpoints.com/archives/2091.html "Why We Should Watch Bitter Sugar Again Today."] ''Cuba Counterpoints'', 10 September 2015. Retrieved 2023-07-04.</ref>

For the next several years, Ichaso worked on several TV movies, some of which were adaptations of plays. ''Zooman'' (Showtime, 1995) was an adaptation of an Off-Broadway play dealing with a family coping with the murder of a child.<ref>((Cite web |title=Leon Ichaso |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/91689%7C0/Leon-Ichaso |access-date=2022-12-26 |website=www.tcm.com |language=en))</ref> ''Execution of Justice'' (Showtime, 1999) was also derived from a [[Execution of Justice|play]] of the same name by [[Emily Mann (director)|Emily Mann]] which detailed the events behind the murders of San Francisco mayor [[George Moscone]] and supervisor [[Harvey Milk]].<ref>((Cite web |last=Henry |first=Carmel |title=A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States |url=https://library.law.howard.edu/civilrightshistory/lgbtq/harveymilk |access-date=2022-12-26 |website=library.law.howard.edu |language=en))</ref>

Ichaso next directed small screen biographies ''[[Ali: An American Hero]]'' (Fox, 2000) and ''[[Hendrix (film)|Hendrix]]'' (Showtime, 2000). He later wrote and directed ''[[Piñero]]'' (2001), a biographical movie about the life of [[Nuyorican]] author [[Miguel Piñero]].<ref name=IMDb/>

After working for Showtime (''[[Sleeper Cell (TV series)|Sleeper Cell]]'', 2005), ''Cane'', ''[[The Cleaner (American TV series)|The Cleaner]]'' (A&E), ''Persons Unknown'' (Fox/Televisa 2008 and 2009), developing his own future projects ("Monk"), and teaching movie directing in France, Ichaso started working on the screenplay of salsa singer [[Héctor Lavoe]]'s biography, ''[[El Cantante]]'' in 2004. This movie was shot in 2006 and stars [[Jennifer Lopez]] and [[Marc Anthony]].<ref>((Cite web |date=2022-08-03 |title=Jennifer Lopez reveals what she really thinks of ex Marc Anthony amid Ben Affleck wedding |url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/20220803147233/jennifer-lopez-really-thinks-ex-marc-anthony-ben-affleck-wedding/ |access-date=2022-12-26 |website=HELLO! |language=en))</ref>

His last movie ''Paraiso'', was filmed in Miami in 2008 and opened during the 2009 Miami International Film Festival in March 2009.<ref>((Citation |last=Ichaso |first=Leon |title=Paraiso |date=2009-03-11 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1351790/ |type=Thriller |publisher=Camino Verde Films |access-date=2023-02-17))</ref>

===Death===
Ichaso died of a heart attack in Santa Monica, California, on May 21, 2023.<ref name=Genzlinger/> He had successfully beaten cancer two years prior.<ref>((cite web | title=Muere el cineasta León Ichaso a los 74 años | website=People en Español | date=22 May 2023 | url=https://peopleenespanol.com/celebridades/muere-leon-ichaso-director-cubano/ | language=es | access-date=22 May 2023))</ref>

== Filmography ==

León Ichaso directed numerous full-length films, including films made for television. This is a partial list.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Directed features
! Year
! Title
! Distributor
|-
| 1979
| ''[[El Super]]''
|  (unknown)
|-
| 1985
| ''[[Crossover Dreams]]''
| [[New Yorker Films]]
|-
| 1992
| ''[[The Fear Inside (film)|The Fear Inside]]''
| [[Viacom Productions]]
|-
| 1994
| ''[[Sugar Hill (1994 film)|Sugar Hill]]''
| [[20th Century Fox]]
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Azúcar Amarga]]''
| (unknown)
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Ali: An American Hero]]''
| [[ Fox Television Studios]]
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Hendrix (film)|Hendrix]]''
| [[MGM Television]]
|-
| 2001
| ''[[Piñero]]''
| [[Miramax Films]]
|-
| 2006
| ''[[El Cantante]]''
| [[Picturehouse (company)|Picturehouse]]
|}

==References==
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==External links==
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