La Hora Cero: debuts in Latin America with a view to the U.S. 
Venezuelan
The film premiered in Costa Rica and Panama.
Los Angeles .- The Venezuelan Diego Velasco, director of Zero Hour hoped that the exhibition of his film in Latin America will open the doors of American theaters.
"We are very pleased with what's going on with our movie, Latin American cinema crosses borders often do not traditionally Colombian film not seen in Argentina, or a Venezuelan film is not in Mexico," Velasco said in an interview with Eph.
Hour Cero se estrenó la semana pasada en Costa Rica, el 8 de abril en Panamá, el 25 en El Salvador y en el mes de mayo continuará su recorrido por las carteleras de cine de Latinoamérica, siempre con los ojos puestos en Estados Unidos.
"Es difícil porque a los latinos, aun cuando nos une la hispanidad, nos separan muchas costumbres locales, entonces es un reto de gran dimensión la internacionalización de nuestro cine, mucha gente nos dijo que por esta razón el mercado latinoamericano no existe, pero con La Hora Cero hemos roto ese paradigma. Por primera vez una película latinoamericana viaja en Latinoamérica", agregó.
La Hora Cero es la primera película de acción, Hollywood style, filmed in Venezuela under the leadership of Velasco, who has been awarded in different festivals for his short films and RG Day Shift City, the latter shortlisted for the Oscar in 2000.
The film tells the story of the Grim Reaper (Zapata 666), a feared assassin who is forced to hijack a private clinic to save the love of his life, LadyDi (Amanda Key).
The screenplay was written by Velasco and his wife, Carolina Paiz Guatemala, who in four years were 14 versions rewriting history until they learned in 2009 that they had reached the final.
Velasco, 38, born in New York, Cuban father and Venezuelan mother, lived in Venezuela from age 7 to 18 when he entered the University of Southern Mississippi to study media, film reference.
"With so many years living outside of Venezuela whenever I returned I saw that lives very polarized and this polarization are labels that put people in absolute extremes ... Nothing is as white or as black, white and black is a gray scale and that's where we are all on the grayscale, "he said.
