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Canana Films
Canana Films is a Mexican film and television production company and former distributor. Founded in 2005, Canana is focused on Latin American-focused projects in Spanish and English and became one of Mexico's leading producer-distributors during the late 2000s/early 2010s. Canana has been inactive since 2020. Among their best known productions are Cary Joji Fukunaga's ''Sin nombre'' (2009), the action thriller ''Miss Bala'' (2011) and its 2019 American adaptation, the Oscar-nominated drama ''No'' (2012), the comedy ''Rudo y Cursi'' (2006), and the biopic ''Cesar Chavez'' (2014). Profile Canana was founded in 2005 by Mexican actors Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna and producer Pablo Cruz. García Bernal and Luna departed the company in 2018, with Cruz and Arturo Sampson providing leadership. García Bernal and Luna subsequently founded their studio La Corriente del Golfo.Cruz went on to co-found the international production studio El Estudio in 2020. In 2005, they partne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photography, photographing actual scenes with a movie camera, motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of computer-generated imagery, CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still imag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soy Tu Fan
''Soy tu fan'' (English: ''I'm your fan'') is a Mexican romantic comedy television series produced by Canana Films, Fox Television Studios and Once TV México, and is an adaptation of the Argentina series of the same name created by Dolores Fonzi and Constanza Novick. It is directed by Álvaro Hernández, Mariana Chenillo & Gerardo Naranjo, produced by Pablo Cruz, Constanza Novick, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Geminiano Pineda, Jorge Mondragón, Diego Martínez Ulanosky and Ana Claudia Talancón and written by Constanza Novick. It premiered Wednesday, April 28, 2010 in Mexico on Once TV Mexico, and in the United States on mun2, October 17, 2010. Season 2 began airing on October 19, 2011 on Once TV in Mexico. Synopsis Charly (Ana Claudia Talancón) and Nicolas meet in a coffee shop in Mexico City after Charly's breakup with Julián, the frontman of an upcoming band. Nicolas shows interest in Charly and tells her to tell her therapist, with whom she has an appointment later, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Well (2013 Film)
''The Well'' (Spanish: ''Manto acuífero'') is a 2013 Mexican slice of life drama film by the Australian director Michael Rowe Michael Rowe (born 1960) is an American television writer, producer and comedian. He has written for ''Becker (TV series), Becker'', ''The Nanny'', ''Futurama'', ''Paranormal Action Squad'' and ''Family Guy'', as well as writing the episode of .... Plot A little girl moves to a new home in another town with her mother and abusive stepfather, and suffers from missing her caring father. Cast * Tania Arredondo as Mamá * Zaili Sofia Macias as Caro * Arnoldo Picazzo as Felipe References External links * Mexican drama films Films set in Mexico 2010s Spanish-language films 2013 films 2010s Mexican films 2013 drama films {{2010s-Mexico-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
César Chávez (film)
''Cesar Chavez'' is a 2014 Mexican-American biographical film produced and directed by Diego Luna about the life of American labor leader Cesar Chavez, who cofounded the United Farm Workers. The film stars Michael Peña as Chavez. John Malkovich co-stars as the owner of a large industrial grape farm who leads the opposition to Chavez's organizing efforts. It premiered in the Berlinale Special Galas section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot The film follows Cesar Chavez's efforts to organize 50,000 farm workers in California. Some of them were braceros—temporary workers from Mexico permitted to live and work in the United States in agriculture, and required to return to Mexico if they stopped working. Working conditions are very poor for the farmworkers, who also suffer from racism and brutality at the hands of the employers and local Californians. To help the workers, Cesar Chavez (Michael Peña) forms a labor union known as the United Farm Workers (UFW). Chav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ardor
''The Ardor'' (original title: ''El Ardor'') is a 2014 American Western film, written and directed by Pablo Fendrik. It stars Gael García Bernal as a lone shaman who rescues a kidnapped woman from mercenaries who kill her farmer father and take over her property. The film premiered on May 19, 2014, at 2014 Cannes Film Festival out of competition, at "special screening" section. It was also one of the Argentinian films which were in consideration to send as Argentina's official entry for 87th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film but ultimately '' Wild Tales'' was selected. Premise A mysterious, lone Amazon shaman named Kaí, rescued the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was killed by a band of deforesters and exact revenge from them. Cast *Gael García Bernal as Kaí *Alice Braga as Vania *Chico Díaz *Claudio Tolcachir as Tarquinho *Jorge Sesán *Iván Steinhardt Releases After its premiere at Cannes, the film screened at Sitges International Fantastic Film Festiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sand Dollars (film)
''Sand Dollars'' ( es, Dólares de arena) is a 2014 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. It was selected as the Dominican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards. In 2016, director Laura Amelia Guzmán announced she was working on a sequel called ''Noelí Overseas''. Plot Noeli is a young Dominican woman working as an escort for tourists. She has a three-year relationship with Anne (Geraldine Chaplin) a much older French woman who buys her services. Despite their transactional relationship, Anne is in love with Noeli and Noeli plans to use her to get a visa to go to France then Barcelona to reconnect with her mother who has moved there. While out with Anne, Noeli sees her boyfriend with another girl at a club. She angrily confronts him while Anne is in the washroom, but Anne sees the tail e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Doesn't Sleep
''Eva Doesn't Sleep'' ( es, Eva no duerme) is a 2015 Drama (film and television), drama film written and directed by Pablo Agüero. The film stars Gael García Bernal and Denis Lavant. Plot The film details the fate of the corpse of Eva Perón, from her death on July 26, 1952 to the final arrival to the La Recoleta Cemetery in October 1976, where it has been located since then. The plot is divided in three short chapters, starring the embalmer of her corpse, the military that takes it to a secret location, and the kidnapping of Pedro Eugenio Aramburu by revolutionaries. Production The lead actress of the film is Sabrina Macchi, who plays Eva Perón. Initially, she took part in the casting of another character, but the director Pablo Agüero thought that she would be a good actress for Evita's role. She underwent a strict training to control her breathing, keep her eyelids quiet and avoid swallowing saliva. The film is also starred by Gael García Bernal, who plays the admiral Emil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chosen Ones (2015 Film)
''The Chosen Ones'' ( es, Las elegidas) is a 2015 Mexican drama film directed by David Pablos. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The film was named on the shortlist for Mexico's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards. Plot Ulysis and Sofia are in a relationship. It is revealed that Ulysis is being groomed by his family to entrap his lovers into the prostitution ring that forms his family's business. Having fallen for Sofia, his first lover, Ulysis puts up an unsuccessful fight to prevent her from being exploited. His father agrees to let Sofia free only when Ulysis gets another girl to replace her in the brothel. Thus he sets toward honeytrapping his next victim. Meanwhile, Sofia is forced into sexual slavery and is losing hope after seeing that her possibility of escape is very slim. By chance she encounters a good samaritan pretending to be a client who plans to help her escape; bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt And Fire
''Salt and Fire'' is a 2016 thriller film written and directed by Werner Herzog. The film stars Michael Shannon, Veronica Ferres, and Gael García Bernal. It tells the story about a hostage-taking situation set against an ecological disaster in Bolivia. It had its premiere at the Shanghai International Film Festival. It was selected to be screened in the Special Presentations section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. Plot Three scientists (Dr. Laura Sommerfield, Dr. Fabio Cavani, and Dr. Arnold Meir) are sent to South America as part of a U.N. investigation into an ecological disaster of Salar de Uyuni. In the past, two rivers had been diverted for irrigation, but the effort failed, and the result was an ever growing toxic salt flat. Upon landing, all three are kidnapped by the man who had become CEO (played by Michael Shannon) of the large international consortium held responsible for the ecological disaster. He seems both tormented by the disaster and uncertain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zama (film)
''Zama'' is a 2017 Argentine period drama film directed by Lucrecia Martel, based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Antonio di Benedetto. It premiered at the 74th Venice International Film Festival. It was also screened in the Masters section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. On 29 September 2017, the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences chose the film as the national entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards and Best Iberoamerican Film at the 32nd Goya Awards. In 2022, it was selected as the 19th greatest film of Argentine cinema in a poll organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines ''La vida útil'', ''Taipei'' and ''La tierra quema'', which was presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival. Plot In the late 18th century Don Diego de Zama is a magistrate in a remote outpost in Argentina. His wife and children are far away and he longs to be assigned to a post in Lerma, a change he believes is imm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance Of The 41 (film)
''Dance of the 41'' ( es, El baile de los 41) is a Mexican drama film directed by David Pablos, written by Monika Revilla and produced by Pablo Cruz and El Estudio. It portrays the events leading up to and around a 1901 party of gay men, half of whom were dressed in drag, known as the Dance of the Forty-One (). It stars Alfonso Herrera as Ignacio de la Torre y Mier, the gay son-in-law of then-president of Mexico Porfirio Díaz, Mabel Cadena as Amada Díaz, his illegitimate daughter, and Emiliano Zurita (son of Christian Bach) as Ignacio’s fictional lover, Evaristo Rivas. Plot The film is based on the Dance of the Forty-One which was a society scandal in early 20th-century Mexico. The incident revolved around an illegal police raid carried out in 17 November 1901 in a private home in Mexico City. The scandal involved the group of men who attended, 19 of whom were dressed in women's clothing. Despite the government's efforts to hush the incident up, the press was keen to repor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariana Chenillo
Mariana Chenillo (born 29 April 1977 in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director and screenwriter, known for ''Nora's Will'' (2008), ''Paradise (2013 Mexican film), Paradise'' (2013) and ''Revolución (film), Revolución'' (2010). Chenillo is the first female filmmaker to have directed a Best Picture-winning film at Mexico's Ariel awards with ''Nora's Will'', a comedy about the five days following Nora's suicide which she'd planned to bring her family back together. Her film ''Paradise'' showed what happens when an overweight couple moves from the middle-class suburban area of Naucalpan to Mexico City. She directed episodes of ''Soy tu fan'' and Netflix' ''Club de Cuervos'', and co-directed the Netflix limited series ''Somos.''. Selected filmography * ''Nora's Will'' (''Cinco días sin Nora'') (2008) * ''Revolución'' (2010) * ''Paradise'' (''Paraíso'') (2013) * ''All That is Invisible'' (2020) References External links * Living people Mexican film directors 1977 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
