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Desierto
''Desierto'' is a 2015 thriller drama film co-written and directed by Jonás Cuarón. It was produced by Cuarón together with his father Alfonso and his uncle Carlos, and distributed by STXfilms. The film stars Gael García Bernal (also executive producer) and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. It was shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Prize of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) for Special Presentations, and was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. Plot A group of Mexican migrant workers seek a better life by crossing the US border illegally; when the truck carrying them breaks down in the middle of nowhere, the driver points the migrants and his partner Mechas in the direction of the United States and wishes them luck. Moises (Gael García Bernal) is also a member of the migrants and follows as the group splits in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodkid
Yoann Lemoine (; born 16 March 1983), known professionally as Woodkid, is a French music video director, graphic designer and singer-songwriter. His most notable works include his music video direction for Katy Perry's " Teenage Dream", Taylor Swift's "Back to December", Lana Del Rey's " Born to Die" and Harry Styles's " Sign of the Times". Lemoine is also a chamber pop musician. On 28 March 2011, he released his first EP ''Iron EP''. On 18 March 2013, he released his first album titled '' The Golden Age'', which is an autobiographical record. He released his second album ''S16'' on 16 October 2020, more than seven years later, following some single releases. Life and career Early life Yoann Lemoine was born in Tassin-la-Demi-Lune, near Lyon to a mother of Polish-Jewish origin. He studied illustration and animation at the Émile Cohl school, where he completed his diploma with honors. He then left for the UK to follow a silk screen printing process course at Swindon College. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Pérez (actor)
Marco Pérez (born March 17, 1977) is a Mexican actor and writer. He began his artistic career working in experimental theater in Jalisco. After moving to Mexico City he was cast as Ramiro in the film ''Amores perros'' directed by Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu in 2000. Pérez has worked extensively on TV series, including ''Capadocia'' (2010), ''El 8° Mandamiento'' (2011), ''El Señor de los Cielos'' (2013), '' Señora Acero'' (2014), '' Caminos de Guanajuato'' (2015), and the ''El Señor de los Cielos'' spin-off ''El Chema'' (2016). Pérez is also featured in several films including ''Trade'' (2007), ''Backyard: El Traspatio'' (2009), ''Días de Gracia'' (2011), ''Mariachi Gringo'' (2012), '' Colosio: El Asesinato'' (2012), '' La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas'' (2012), and '' Desierto'' (2015). For his performance of Comandante in the film '' Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso'' he received a Diosa de Plata nomination for Best Supportin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alondra Hidalgo
Alondra Patricia Hidalgo Quintero (born February 17, 1989) is a Mexican actress with 231 voiceovers in Spanish. Life and education Alondra Hidalgo was the youngest child of Mexican actors Patricia Quintero and Enrique Hidalgo. Her parents met each other at work and she declares "she was raised on dubbing studios". Alondra is the younger half-sibling of Mexican actress Alma Cero and voice actor Alejandro Hidalgo. She later became the aunt of Bruno Vega (born in 1997). Her parents got divorced on her youth and she lived with her mother and her sister. She studied Chemistry of gastronomy at National Autonomous University of Mexico(UNAM) but left the course. Alondra was raised as non-catholic by her mother. She is agnostic and feminist. Career She began doing voice dubbing at a very young age, as she was born in a family of voice actors. She recorded screams and whims as a toddler as it was illegal to get the original SFX of American movies to dubbing studios. She is known f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Jeffrey Dean Morgan (born April 22, 1966) is an American actor of television and film, best known for playing the character Negan in the AMC horror drama series '' The Walking Dead'' (2016–2022), for which he has received critical acclaim. He has also appeared in such television roles as John Winchester in the CW fantasy horror series ''Supernatural'' (2005–2007; 2019), Denny Duquette in the ABC medical drama series ''Grey's Anatomy'' (2006–2009), Jason Crouse in the CBS political drama series ''The Good Wife'' (2015–2016), the Comedian in the superhero film ''Watchmen'' (2009), as well as film roles including Clay in '' The Losers'' (2010), Sgt. Andrew Tanner in ''Red Dawn'' (2012), and Agent Harvey Russell in '' Rampage'' (2018). Early life Morgan was born in Seattle, Washington to Sandy Thomas and Richard Dean Morgan. He graduated from Lake Washington High School in 1984 and briefly attended Skagit Valley College to pursue a career in basketball. Following a leg i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Toronto International Film Festival
The 40th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 10 to 20 September 2015. On 28 July 2015 the first wave of films to be screened at the Festival was announced. Jean-Marc Vallée's ''Demolition'' starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts was the opening night film; '' Mr. Right'' by Paco Cabezas was the closing night film. The year's edition included two new sections called Platform and Primetime. At Platform, twelve films will be screened in front of a jury, with the best film of the program winning the C$25,000 Platform Prize. Film directors Claire Denis, Jia Zhangke, and Agnieszka Holland were selected as the jurors for this section. At Primetime, six high-quality television programs will be presented at public screenings with Question and Answer sessions with show creators. The lineups for the TIFF Docs, Vanguard, Midnight Madness, and Masters sections were announced on 11 August 2015. More than 100 films were added to the festival's programme on 18 August. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gael García Bernal
Gael García Bernal (; born 30 November 1978) is a Mexican actor and producer. He is best known for his performances in the films '' Bad Education'', '' The Motorcycle Diaries'', ''Amores perros'', ''Y tu mamá también'', ''Babel'', '' Coco'', and ''Old'', as Jack Russell / Werewolf by Night in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television special ''Werewolf by Night'', and for his role as Rodrigo de Souza in the Amazon Studios streaming television series ''Mozart in the Jungle''. He and Diego Luna founded Canana Films in Mexico City. García Bernal was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of a young Che Guevara in ''The Motorcycle Diaries'' in 2005, and in 2016 won his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy for ''Mozart in the Jungle''. In 2016, ''Time'' magazine named him in the annual ''Time'' 100 most influential people list. In 2020, ''The New York Times'' ranked him No. 25 in its list of the 25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonás Cuarón
Jonás Cuarón Elizondo (born 1983) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and cinematographer. He is the son of the Academy Award-winner Alfonso Cuarón by the latter's first wife, Mariana Elizondo. Jonás Cuarón studied film at Vassar College. His first feature film, '' Año uña'' which he directed, wrote and produced, was released in 2007. It is known in English as ''Year of the Nail''. He co-wrote the highly acclaimed 2013 film ''Gravity''. The film was co-written and directed by his father. His uncle, Carlos Cuarón Carlos José Cuarón Orozco (born 2 October 1966) is a Mexican screenwriter, film producer, and film director. He is also brother of the Academy Award-winner Alfonso Cuarón. Biography Carlos Cuarón was born in Mexico City and studied Eng ..., is also a writer and director and his half-brother, Diego Cataño, is an actor. His first film credit is a cameo as a child in the 1991 film '' Sólo con tu pareja'', which was directed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butch McCain
Butch McCain is an American actor, an award winning broadcaster, producer and one-half of the singing-songwriting team, The McCain Brothers. Butch appeared as TV reporter Joachim West in MGM's Bio-Dome, the character, Creel, in Roger Corman's remake Humanoids From The Deep, dual roles as a uni-browed farmer and deputy in Bruce Campbell's My Name Is Bruce, and most recently as Mayor Eddie Modry in Dragon Soldiers. Butch and his brother, Ben McCain, wrote and performed the theme song of My Name is Bruce titled "The Legend of Guan Di". Butch is a multi-award winning broadcaster including Best Weathercaster of the year two years in a row by the Colorado Broadcasters Association. Early life Butch McCain was born in Muleshoe, Texas, and raised on a farm near Bovina in Parmer County, Texas. McCain is a graduate of Bovina High School, South Plains College in Levelland, Texas, and West Texas State University now West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas. Film and television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco ( , ; born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican filmmaker. He is known for directing films in a variety of genres including the family drama ''A Little Princess (1995 film), A Little Princess'' (1995), the romantic drama ''Great Expectations (1998 film), Great Expectations'' (1998), the coming of age road film ''Y tu mamá también'' (2001), the fantasy film, fantasy film ''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'' (2004), the science fiction films ''Children of Men'' (2006) and Gravity (2013 film), ''Gravity'' (2013), the semi-autobiographical drama Roma (2018 film), ''Roma'' (2018), and the 2009 short ''I Am Autism''. Cuarón has received 10 Academy Award nominations, winning four including Academy Award for Best Director, Best Director for ''Gravity'' and ''Roma'', Academy Award for Best Film Editing, Best Film Editing for ''Gravity'', and Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Best Cinematography for ''Roma' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lava Bear Films
Lava Bear Films is a production and film financing company producing three to five projects annually that are specifically designed for the global marketplace. The company was founded in 2011 by David Linde who served as CEO until October, 2015 when Participant Media announced that Linde joined the company as its CEO. Lava Bear’s development slate of over fifteen titles and upcoming productions will continue to be overseen by Tory Metzger, President and Partner of Lava Bear, with Linde’s support during his transition. The company's creative partners include David S. Goyer, David Michôd, Guillermo del Toro, Shawn Levy, Denis Villeneuve, Zhang Yimou, and Alfonso and Jonás Cuarón, among many others. With Reliance Entertainment as its primary equity investor, Lava Bear also maintains a network of direct output partnerships in several key territories around the globe with the following companies serving to complete its worldwide distribution and financing platform: * Entertainm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lew Temple
Lew Temple (born October 2, 1967) is an American actor, known for his roles as Locus Fender in the action film, ''Domino'', Cal, the diner manager in the comedy-drama ''Waitress'', and Axel in the third season of '' The Walking Dead''. Early life Temple was raised in Texas. He was the 1982 Baseball MVP at Rollins College, and graduated in 1985. Career Baseball Though he was too small for the big leagues, he continued with his love for baseball, snagging roles as a minor league bullpen catcher for the Seattle Mariners and Houston Astros. In 1986, he was a scout for the New York Mets, and would later go on to serve as Assistant Director of Minor League Operations and Scouting for the Astros until 1993. Acting Film Temple has had several film roles in the horror genre, appearing in Rob Zombie's horror film, '' The Devils Rejects'' as Adam Banjo, portraying Sheriff Hoyt in the prequel to the remake of ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' and as Noel Kluggs in Rob Zombie's slashe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gillibert
Charles Gillibert (born 14 September 1977) is a French film producer. Life and career Gillibert was born in Tassin-la-Demi-Lune. His parents were Michel Gillibert and Françoise Barquin; he is the brother of the actress Violaine Gillibert and Emmanuel Gillibert, the head of Eggs publicity agency. In 1995 Gillibert and Nathanaël Karmitz founded the film production company NADA as well as the Kieslowski Award, producing around a hundred short films, art videos and documentaries, many of which were awarded in most of international film festivals. In 2002, NADA merged with the MK2 group and Charles Gillibert launched MK2 Music, a label in the heart of the connection between music and moving images, facing new creative formats, giving rise to the first ''cinemix'' performances. MK2 Music has also produced modern dance performance films with artists such as William Forsythe directed by Thierry de Mey (One Flat Thing Reproduced), Merce Cunningham directed by Charles Atlas (Biped/Pon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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