‘I’m No Longer Here’ Director Fernando Frias On The Journey Of Mexico’s International Feature Oscar Entry

Oscars ceremony. Danish tragicomedy "Another Round" stars former James Bond villain Mikkelsen as a middle-aged alcoholic who vows to get drunk every day, as part of a pseudoscientific experiment featuring three fellow school teachers.

Also Read: Oscars Eliminate Executive Committee Picks for International Feature, Expand ShortlistThe rest of the list: Bosnia and Herzegovina’s “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” Guatemala’s “La Llorona,” Hong Kong’s “Better Days,” Iran’s “Sun Children,” Norway’s “Hope,” “Russia’s “Dear Comrades!” and Tunisia’s “The Man Who Sold His Skin.”Normally, the general voters would choose all but three of the films on the shortlist, and then an executive committee would look at the results and add three additional

Anna Marie de la Fuente James Schamus (pictured, left), the former co-president of Focus Features who is best known for his laureled producing partnership with multi Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, is creating his first TV series for Netflix Mexico.Schamus will serve as executive producer and showrunner for the series, which he co-wrote with Monika Revilla (“The House of Flowers,” “Someone Has to Die”) and author Fernanda Melchor (“Hurricane Season”).The series, whose storyline is under wraps,

Anna Marie de la Fuente It’s been worth the wait. Mexican indigenous filmmaker Angeles Cruz and her producing team could have bowed her feature debut “Nudo Mixteco” at one of the many virtual film festivals last year, but they decided to wait for an in-person film festival to launch it to the world.“Premiering ‘Nudo Mixteco’ during the maelstrom of last year did not feel appropriate,” said Cruz.

Following in the footsteps of acclaimed Mexican directors Guillermo del Toro, AlfonsoCuarón and Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Fernando Fríasde la Parra has entered the awards conversation this year with his featureI'm No Longer Here,Mexico's official submission for the best international feature Oscar.

With international buyers unable to travel to Germany to scout movies at year’s Berlin International Film Festival, the event will instead bring a selection of titles from its program to them through new initiative ‘EFM goes global’.

Chloe Sims has been spotted out with her rarely-seen daughter Madison in Tulum, Mexico.The Only Way Is Essex star Chloe, 38, and her 15 year old daughter Madison were seen leaving the Kin Toh restaurant in Tulum, Mexico. Chloe and her daughter were accompanied by Chloe’s cousin Frankie Essex, 33, as they dined out in the picturesque eatery.

Ed Meza @edmezavarMandy Patinkin and Lena Dunham have joined German filmmaker Julia von Heinz’s next film, “Iron Box,” about a New York businesswoman who decides to take her aging father back to his native Poland, where she hopes to explore her Jewish roots.In an interview with Variety during last year’s Venice Film Festival following the premiere of her latest pic, “And Tomorrow the Entire World,” von Heinz said she planned to send Patinkin and Dunham the script and expressed hope that they

 Eva Longoria ’s husband  José Bastón  is an extremely private person. For this reason, it’s rare to see the 52-year-old Mexican media mogul appear on red carpets or the 45-year-old star’s social media pages.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorDirector Fernando Frias new film, Mexican Oscar hopeful “I’m No Longer Here,” gives audiences a look into the American dream, and his deconstruction of it.Rather than cast well-known actors, Frias relied on his casting director to find non-actors to help tell the story of Ulises, played by Juan Daniel Garcia Treviño who goes on a journey from Monterrey, Mexico to New York for a new life, except his American dream isn’t all it’s expected to be.Frias teamed with

Anna Marie de la Fuente While speaking at a masterclass at Mexico’s 2019 Morelia Film Festival, Willem Dafoe said about acting: “When you do the bidding of someone else, it’s like falling in love: You have a new energy, you don’t think about yourself, you’re on an adventure… and it’s always better when it’s through someone else; you become their creature.”Indeed, Dafoe has portrayed a slew of characters in his storied career, but perhaps inhabiting Hector Babenco’s alter-ego Diego in the deeply

Guy Lodge Film CriticFor the past two years, the Oscar race for international feature hasn’t been a race at all. With Mexico’s “Roma” and South Korea’s “Parasite” heavyweight contenders for best picture, the lower-profile award became a done deal.

Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner went on a trip to Mexico this past week and they stayed in an incredible villa that was surrounded by a jaw-dropping 360-degree infinity pool!