Antonio Mendez Esparza
Antonio Mendez Esparza’s first feature Aquí Y Allá was named the Best Film in International Competition for First Feature Film of Directors at the Mumbai Film Festival 2012. A documentation of the struggles, joys and challenges in the life of a family in Mexico, the film won the Critics Week Grand Prize at Cannes Film Festival 2012 and went on to screen at 50th New York Film Festival, 17th Busan International Film Festival and 56th BFI London Film Festival.
Antonio Mendez Esparza talks about his film with Anita Thomas
How did the idea of the film occur to you?
I did several short films, sort of related in a way, about love stories, different approaches to life of people in big cities and usually their characters were immigrants. In the last film Una Y Otra Vez I decided to cast non-actors and I met Pedro who eventually played the protagonist in the film.
Antonio Mendez Esparza’s first feature Aquí Y Allá was named the Best Film in International Competition for First Feature Film of Directors at the Mumbai Film Festival 2012. A documentation of the struggles, joys and challenges in the life of a family in Mexico, the film won the Critics Week Grand Prize at Cannes Film Festival 2012 and went on to screen at 50th New York Film Festival, 17th Busan International Film Festival and 56th BFI London Film Festival.
Antonio Mendez Esparza talks about his film with Anita Thomas
How did the idea of the film occur to you?
I did several short films, sort of related in a way, about love stories, different approaches to life of people in big cities and usually their characters were immigrants. In the last film Una Y Otra Vez I decided to cast non-actors and I met Pedro who eventually played the protagonist in the film.
- 10/26/2012
- by Anita Thomas
- DearCinema.com
The nominees for the 2012 Latin Grammy awards are in, and Dominican singer Juan Luis Guerra tops the list with six nods.
Guerra scored two of the 10 "Best Song" nominations for his "Azul Sabina" and "En El Cielo No Hay Hospital." The Dominican singer’s unique blend of merengue, bolero, bachata and rock has already earned him 12 Latin Grammys.
The list of nominees released Tuesday by the Latin Recording Academy includes both established musical titans such as Cuban jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, and relative newcomers, including Afro-Colombian hip hop group Choc Quib Town.
Brazil's Caetano Veloso, who first came to prominence in the 1960s playing a samba-infused style of rock known as Tropicalia, is up for four awards. Caetano will also be honored as the "2012 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year."
The Latin Grammys are scheduled for Nov. 15 in Las Vegas and will be televised by Univision.
Check out the...
Guerra scored two of the 10 "Best Song" nominations for his "Azul Sabina" and "En El Cielo No Hay Hospital." The Dominican singer’s unique blend of merengue, bolero, bachata and rock has already earned him 12 Latin Grammys.
The list of nominees released Tuesday by the Latin Recording Academy includes both established musical titans such as Cuban jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, and relative newcomers, including Afro-Colombian hip hop group Choc Quib Town.
Brazil's Caetano Veloso, who first came to prominence in the 1960s playing a samba-infused style of rock known as Tropicalia, is up for four awards. Caetano will also be honored as the "2012 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year."
The Latin Grammys are scheduled for Nov. 15 in Las Vegas and will be televised by Univision.
Check out the...
- 9/26/2012
- by Miguel Ferrer
- Huffington Post
The DGA announced Friday the winners of its 2009 student film awards for African-American, Asian-American, Latino and female directors.
In the African-American category, Rashaad Ernesto Green of Nyu ("Premature"), Edward Osei-Gyimah of USC ("Kwame") and Sharon Hill of UCLA ("Shades of Gray") took the prizes.
In the Asian-American category, Theresa Wu of Columbia University ("Smoke and Mirrors"), Edward Kim of UCLA ("To Wander in Pandemonium") and Ken Ochiai of AFI ("Half Kenneth") were the winners.
Antonio Mendez Esparza of Columbia University ("Una y Otra Vez"), David Martin-Porras of UCLA ("Ida y Vuelta") and Jessica McMunn Macias of UCLA ("Soleil") won the Latino category.
And Eliza Subotowicz of Columbia University ("Ben"), Erika Cohn of Chapman University ("When the Voices Fade") and Rebecca Cremona of Art Center College of Design ("Magdalene") took the prizes in the womens category.
All the winning films will be screened and the awards presented in ceremonies at DGA...
In the African-American category, Rashaad Ernesto Green of Nyu ("Premature"), Edward Osei-Gyimah of USC ("Kwame") and Sharon Hill of UCLA ("Shades of Gray") took the prizes.
In the Asian-American category, Theresa Wu of Columbia University ("Smoke and Mirrors"), Edward Kim of UCLA ("To Wander in Pandemonium") and Ken Ochiai of AFI ("Half Kenneth") were the winners.
Antonio Mendez Esparza of Columbia University ("Una y Otra Vez"), David Martin-Porras of UCLA ("Ida y Vuelta") and Jessica McMunn Macias of UCLA ("Soleil") won the Latino category.
And Eliza Subotowicz of Columbia University ("Ben"), Erika Cohn of Chapman University ("When the Voices Fade") and Rebecca Cremona of Art Center College of Design ("Magdalene") took the prizes in the womens category.
All the winning films will be screened and the awards presented in ceremonies at DGA...
- 11/13/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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