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Miguel A. Reina
Miguel Alejandro Reina Gómez Maganda (; born 11 August 1980) is a Mexican filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. Some of his works include ''Un aliado en el tiempo'', '' Mi vida en frenesí'', '' Trazos mágicos de Oaxaca'' and '' El hombre que detuvo el tiempo''. Early life Reina was born in Acapulco City. He studied Mass Communication at the Universidad del Nuevo Mundo (UNUM) and filmmaking at SAIC (School of the Art Institute of Chicago). also attended CECAAP (Centro de Capacitación Artística Profesional). He began working on television in Mexico, first as a producer assistant and then as a screenwriter. Reina's television work led to assignments as a creative director for several advertising spots, and in 2003, he landed his first awarded screenplay ''Pan de dulce''. He was honored guest at the 60th Venice International Film Festival. ''El Hombre que detuvo el tiempo (The man who stops time)'' '' El Hombre que detuvo el tiempo'' is a documentary about Andrés Henestr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice International Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the "Big Six" International film festivals worldwide, which include the Big Three European Film Festivals, alongside the Toronto Film Festival in Canada the Sundance Film Festival in the United States and the Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia. The Festivals are internationally acclaimed for giving creators the artistic freedom to express themselves through film. In 1951, FIAPF formally accredited the festival. Founded by the National Fascist Party in Venice in August 1932, the festival is part of the Venice Biennale, one of the world's oldest exhibitions of art, created by the Venice City Council on 19 April 1893. The range of work at the Venice Bienn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
León Krauze
León Rodrigo Krauze Turrent (Mexico City, January 4, 1975) is a Mexican journalist, author, and news anchor. Personal life He is the son of Enrique Krauze and is married with children. Krauze holds a master's degree from New York University. Career He began his career as a sports journalist, focusing on football. That passion led him to become not only an expert and official chronicler of the Mexico national team but also a highly regarded historian: he has written four books and eighty documentaries on the history of “fútbol” in Mexico. Since 1997, Krauze has covered politics in the United States, for both American and Mexican media outlets. In 2005 he published “La Casa Dividida,” an account of the first five years of the Bush presidency. Krauze has interviewed leading political figures such as Juan Manuel Santos, Nick Clegg, Felipe Calderón, Enrique Peña Nieto, Shimon Peres, and Barack Obama. His work has been published in ''Foreign Affairs'', ''The New Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Guerrero
Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became ''Jacome'' and later ''Jacme''. In east Spain, ''Jacme'' became ''Jaime'', in Aragon it became ''Chaime'', and in Catalonia it became ''Jaume''. In western Spain Jacobus became ''Iago''; in Portugal it became ''Tiago''. The name '' Saint James'' developed in Spanish to ''Santiago'', in Portuguese to ''São Tiago''. The names ''Diego'' (Spanish) and '' Diogo'' (Portuguese) are also Iberian versions of ''Jaime''. In the United States, Jaime is used as an independent masculine given name, along with given name James. For females, it remains less popular, not appearing on the top 1,000 U.S. female names for the past 5 years. People * Jaime, Duke of Braganza, Portuguese nobleman of the 15th/16th centuries, the 4th Duke of Braganza * Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia (1908–1975), Spanish prince, the second son of Alfonso XIII of Spain and his wife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrés Roemer
Andrés Roemer Slomianski (born July 12, 1963) is a Mexican writer, producer and former ambassador to UNESCO. Roemer rose to prominence by being at the front of Ciudad de las Ideas, organized in partnership with media, banking and retail conglomerate Grupo Salinas, an annual festival in the Mexican state of Puebla. as well as the creator of "Rethinking G20: Designing the Future" pre-G20 of 2012 G-20 Los Cabos summit in 2012, of the "Mex-I-Am" and co-funder of the "Haus der Musik", museum in Puebla City. Andres Roemer is also author of sixteen books and two plays that treat diverse topics. His works are characterized for his analysis of non-market activities through economic analysis of law such as: happiness, art, sexuality, love, water, soccer, law, economics, crime, evolutionary psychology, government and public policy. His name rose to prominence in public debate in the context of the Me Too movement, as several sexual abuse accusations were put forward by women who inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis García Postigo
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Origins The Germanic name (and its variants) is usually said to be composed of the words for "fame" () and "warrior" () and hence may be translated to ''famous warrior'' or "famous in battle". According to Dutch onomatologists however, it is more likely that the first stem was , meaning fame, which would give the meaning 'warrior for the gods' (or: 'warrior who captured stability') for the full name.J. van der Schaar, ''Woordenboek van voornamen'' (Prisma Voornamenboek), 4e druk 1990; see also thLodewijs in the Dutch given names database Modern forms of the name are the German name Ludwig and the Dutch form Lodewijk. and the other Iberian forms more closely resemble the French name Louis, a derivat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Villoro
Juan Villoro (born 24 September 1956, in Mexico City) is a Mexican writer and journalist and the son of philosopher Luis Villoro. He has been well known among intellectual circles in Mexico, Latin America and Spain for years, but his success among a wider readership has grown since receiving the Herralde Prize for his novel ''El testigo''. Biography Juan Villoro received his bachelor's degree in Sociology from the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Iztapalapa campus. He was also part of a short story workshop conducted by Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso. As a rock music fan, he was the DJ for the radio program "El lado oscuro de la luna" (the Spanish translation of ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' by Pink Floyd) from 1977 until 1981. He was then made the cultural attaché to Berlin in the then German Democratic Republic. For three decades, Villoro has produced a steady output of articles for various Mexican periodicals, concentrating in such areas as sports, rock, cinema, li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guerrero 12
''Guerrero 12'', also known as ''12th Warrior'', is a Mexican documentary film that plans to release in theaters in the winter of 2011 in Mexico. The film is directed by Mexican director Miguel A. Reina and produced by E Corp Studio, and was shot on three continents in high definition digital cinema. Plot Beyond the fun and sporty, it is clear that football has become part of the idiosyncrasies of people. In Mexico it is a religion, it is a phenomenon that promotes an inexplicable passion. Cast * Álvaro "El Mago" Romero, The Mexican soccer fan, originally from Morelia, Michoacán, where a museum dedicated to him. * Mario "Pichojos" Pérez, Currently the coach for only second division team in the state of Guerrero. * Arturo Brizio, former football (soccer) referee from Mexico. * Mauricio Cabrera, Analyst and commentator on Medio Tiempo, the most important sports blog in Latin America. * Luis García, Former football player, national team. * Jaime Guerrero, Journalist and re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York International Latino Film Festival
The New York International Latino Film Festival is a major Hispanic film festival located in New York City. The festival features over sixty films, shorts, and documentaries over the course of six days, along with other events focused on Latino culture. List of award winners by year 2008 * Best Picture - '' Vicious Circle'' - Director: Paul Boyd * Best Documentary Award - ''Transvestites Also Cry'' - Director: Sebastiano D'Ayala Valva * Best Documentary Award - ''La Americana'' -Directors: Nicholas Bruckman & John Mattiuzzi * Best Short Award - ''Rojo Red'' - Director: Juan Manuel Betancourt * Heineken Red Star Award - ''Malta Con Huevo'' - Director: Cristobal Valderrama 2009 * Best Film - ''Inside a Change'' - Director: Rik Cordero * Best Short Film - ''Lalo'' - Director: Daniel Maldonado * Audience Choice Award: Best Picture - ''El Regalo de la Pachamama'' - Director: Toshifumi Matsushita * Best Documentary - ''Stages'' - Directors: Meerkat Media Collective 2010 * Best Dom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,660 attending in 2016. It takes place each January in Park City, Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah; and at the Sundance Resort (a ski resort near Provo, Utah), and acts as a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival consists of competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature films and short films, and a group of out-of-competition sections, including NEXT, New Frontier, Spotlight, Midnight, Sundance Kids, From the Collection, Premieres, and Documentary Premieres. History 1978: Utah/US Film Festival Sundance began in Salt Lake City in August 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival in an effort to attract more filmmakers to Utah. It was founded by Sterl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pantalla De Cristal Film Festival
The Pantalla de Cristal Fest is a major international film festival located in Mexico City. The festival features over two hundred digital films, shorts, musical videoclips, TV spots and documentaries over the course of seven days. History The Festival was established in 1999 by José Antonio Fernández, founder of the Mexican film magazine ''Screen''. Eight categories of awards were included in its most recent edition: for feature films, documentaries, short films, video clips, commercials, newspaper reports, corporate videos, television series and miniseries. See also * Film festivals in North and Central America This is a list of film festivals that take place (or took place) in North America (Canada, United States and Mexico). Canada * List of film festivals in Canada Caribbean Central America Mexico United States * List of film festivals in the ... References External links Official website for the Festival Pantalla de CristalThis work contains a translation deri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
