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Movie City: Mexico City
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Canana Means Business
Scott Macaulay profiles the new production company started by international film stars Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna.
Hecho en México
Nick Dawson highlights cinema south of the border, and points out American productions shot on location in Mexico.
Patrica Riggen's Mexico City
Patricia Riggen (whose Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna) is making its mark on both sides of the border remembers cinema life in the capital.
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Mexican Cinema Today
Jason Wood (whose The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema was recently published) highlights the rocky path Mexican cinema has traveled to get here.
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In 2007, at the 79th Academy Awards, the abundance of Mexican filmmakers made clear that the Nuevo Cine Mexicano (or New Mexican Cinema) had come to town. Friends and filmmakers Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel), Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men), and Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth) were in attendance, each with a film nominated in multiple categories. Of the five cinematographers nominated, two were Mexicans: Emmanuel Lubezki (Children of Men) and Guillermo Navarro (who won for Pan's Labyrinth). In Movie City: Mexico City, we explore this explosion of Mexican film and especially its epicenter, Mexico City.