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Patricia Riggen is a film director and producer.

Fernando Eimbcke is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. Fernando Eimbcke studied film direction at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos of the UNAM . He started his career directing music videoclips and short films. His feature debut in Mexican cinema was the 2004... Temporada de patos , which won several Film Festival awards including the Ariel Award for Best Film. His latest film, Lake Tahoe was received positively at the Berlin International Film Festival, winning two awards.
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Amat Escalante is a Mexican director, producer and screenwriter known for his films Sangre and Los Bastardos. Escalante has spent the majority of his life in Guanajuato, Mexico, though he was born in Barcelona, Spain. He came back to Barcelona to study motion picture editing and sound at the... Centre of Cinematographic Studies in Catalunya. Later on he studied at the International School of Film and Television in Cuba. In 2003, he received an award at the Berlin Film Festival for his short film Amarrados. His 2005 film Sangre was included in the section Un Certain Regard at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. It was also presented at the Rotterdam Film Festival and the San Sebastian Film Festival. He is a close friend and collaborator of Carlos Reygadas.
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Gael García Bernal is a Mexican film actor and director. García Bernal was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, the son of Patricia Bernal, an actress and former model, and José Ángel García, an actor and director. His stepfather is Sergio Yazbek, whom his mother married when... García Bernal was young. He started acting at just a year old and spent most of his teen years starring in telenovelas. Gael studied the International Baccalaureate, with chemistry being his favorite subject. When he was fourteen, he taught indigenous peoples in Mexico to read, often working with the Huichol Indians. In his later teens, he took part in peaceful demonstrations during the Chiapas uprising of 1994. García Bernal was becoming a soap opera heartthrob, but at age of 19, he left Mexico's television world to study acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, becoming the first person from Mexico to be accepted into the program. In the brief period beforehand, he had begun to study philosophy at UNAM, Mexico's national university, before a strike closed the college and he then left for London.
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Rodrigo García is a Colombian-born television and film director. García was born in Bogotá, Colombia, the son of Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha Pardo. Because of this he knew Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortázar, Pablo Neruda and Luis... Buñuel when he was young. García has directed a variety of independent films such as the award-winning "Nine Lives" and "Albert Nobbs" and several episodes of the HBO series, Six Feet Under, Carnivàle, and Big Love. He created, wrote and directed the wildly popular HBO hit "In Treatment" As of 1987, he lives in the United States. He has also worked as a camera operator and a cinematographer for several films such as Gia, The Birdcage and Great Expectations. His film Nine Lives was nominated for the William Shatner Golden Groundhog Award for Best Underground Movie, the other nominated films were Green Street Hooligans, MirrorMask, Up for Grabs and Opie Gets Laid.
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Diego Luna is a Mexican actor known for his childhood telenovela work, a starring role in the film Y tu mamá también, and supporting roles in American films. He is also known for his roles in Rudo y Cursi and Milk. Together with Romola Garai, he starred the film Dirty Dancing: Havana... Nights. Luna also had minor roles in Frida and Before Night Falls. He also provides Spanish language narration for the National Geographic Channel documentary Great Migrations. Luna was born Diego Luna Alexander in Mexico City; the son of Fiona Alexander, an English costume designer, and Alejandro Luna, a Mexican set designer who is one of the most acclaimed living theatre, cinema, and opera set designers in Mexico. His mother died in a car accident when he was two years old. She had worked in the film industry and had made sure that this was a life Luna would be immersed in. His father also reinforced the importance of theater and the arts in his life. In Luna's youth, he would bring him to the sets and mentor him in all different aspects of his art, furthering his desire to become an actor and uphold a family tradition.
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Gerardo Naranjo is a Film Director, Film Producer, and Screenwriter.

Carlos Reygadas is a Mexican filmmaker known for his three films Batalla en el Cielo, Japón and Silent Light . After Batalla en el Cielo, he was known for his raw depiction of sex in his films and the use of old or ugly-seeming characters. His films explore spirituality and the sublime... through the interior lives of men suffering existential crises. Reygadas has shot all but one of his films in CinemaScope. With Silent Light, Reygadas competed once more for the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, and has become one of the most prominent writer–directors of modern cinema. Martin Scorsese called Silent Light "A surprising picture, and a very moving one as well." In 1987 Carlos Reygadas discovered his filmic passion after watching Andrei Tarkovsky's films. He attended Mount St Mary's College, Derbyshire, and later studied Law in Mexico. Afterward, he specialized in armed conflicts in London and worked for the United Nations. In 1997, Reygadas participated in a film competition in Belgium with his first short film, Maxhumain.
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Rodrigo Plá is a Uruguay screenwriter and director. He is known for his 2007 film La Zona , studied photography, screenwriting and direction at the Centro de capacitacion cinematogrfica in Mexico City, where he has lived since he was 11. In 1988 he directed his first short-film.