Those Who Remain,’ ‘Round Trip’ scoop prizes at Guadalajara film fest.
Peter Gabriel implored President Calderon to show “real political will, muscle and budget” in investigating the hundreds of unsolved murders of young women in Ciudad Juarez.
The homes that Mexican migrants come from are often a jumping-off point for filmmakers, but Rulfo and Hagerman chose to stay at the point of departure to see how those who remain deal with their reduced numbers.
Throw together two feisty characters from different sides of life’s tracks. It’s an old strategy but it works, as demonstrated by “Viaje Redondo”, Mexican director Gerardo Tort’s road-trip chick flick.
“El Enemigo” (The Enemy) is one of the movies competing for the Guadalajara International Film Festival’s Best Ibero-American Fiction Feature Film this year.
They first catch the eye as tiny, ghost-like flashes. It takes a moment to fix the flitting shapes.
Guillermo del Toro’s imagination is a fascinating abyss full of the kind of monsters that inhabit both our dreams and our nightmares.
I’m on the hoof, but wanted to report on some of the films I’ve seen so far here at the Guadalajara International Film Festival.
After writing a song for los Tigres Del Norte about the controversial 670-mile fence project along the U.S.-Mexico border, Cristina Rubalcava got to listening to some of the band’s narcocorridos and created a mural that illustrates phrases from them.
In El Alberto, a small village over 1000km from the border between Mexico and the US, tourists can pay to experience what it’s like being an illegal migrant.
Gael Garcia Bernal is to be honored at the upcoming International Film Festival in Guadalajara for his contributions to cinema.
Mexico City’s Museo de la Ciudad is playing host to a photojournalism exhibition — Expofotoperiodismo — that features nearly 50 photos from 2008.
In a country with such a rich artistic heritage of mural-ism, graffiti is a popular past-time for many of Mexico´s youth.
An exhibition honoring lucha libre legend El Santo opened in Mexico City late last month, marking the 25th anniversary of the fighter-turned-film-star’s death.
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