El Gran Fellove is a documentary film from actor and filmmaker Matt Dillon, that chronicles the musical career of Cuban scat singer and showman Francisco Fellove and the recording of his last album. Through a series of interviews, archival photos and videos, as well as Matt's own footage, the film recounts Fellove's life as a struggling musician in Cuba, his eventual success in Mexico, and the contagious love he had for music until the very end.
Over a period of four decades, Matt Dillon (New Rochelle, USA. 1964) has developed a prolific career as an actor with noteworthy films including The Outsiders (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983), Drugstore Cowboy (Gus van Sant, 1989), Singles (Cameron Crowe, 1992), Beautiful Girls (Ted Demme, 1996), There’s Something about Mary (Bobby and Peter Farrelly, 1998), Crash (Paul Haggis, 2004), for which he landed his only Oscar nomination, The House that Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018) and Proxima (2019), which competed in the Official Selection at San Sebastian. In 2002 he made his directorial debut with City of Ghosts. San Sebastian Festival presented him with its Donostia Award in 2006.