News: Calle 13, filming wrapped up & more to do!
Suite 101 mentions the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) Documentary Fortnight Film Festival opened on February 16 (for those not in the know, MoMA is in New York). MoMA has joined forces, according to the article, with Cinema Tropical and Ambulante (Diego and Gael’s travelling documentary film festival).
MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight festival will run until February 29, 2011.
Diego’s been speaking about Presumed Guilty. According to ABC News, Presumed Guilty:
offers a rare front-row look into Mexico's secretive court system, which places the burden of proof on defendants. Trials conducted largely on paper offer no chance for public scrutiny. Critics say this results in a system in which innocent are jailed and criminals go free.
And what did Diego say?
"Indifference and ignorance are the major illnesses we're experiencing," said Diego Luna, the Mexican actor and director who has used his Hollywood star power to promote the documentary. "We've learned to live with injustice and move on as if nothing were wrong."
ABC NewsThe ABC News article states ‘the film would have been almost forgotten in its home country if not for key members of Mexico's entertainment elite, who promoted its commercial release at a moment when botched cases and legal abuses are causing public outrage.’
Presumed Guilty premiered two years ago at the Belfast Film Festival, has been shown in more than a dozen international film festivals as well as on US television; it has also won the Best Documentary category at the Morelia Film Festival in 2009.
The 26th Independent Spirit Award presenters have been announced and one of the presenters?
Diego!
A YouTube video has surfaced of Diego at the inauguration of Ambulante for 2011 (the video can be found immediately below).
Hispanically Speaking has a profile of Diego, talking about his busy year in 2011. Big news from the profile/article?
He has just finished filming a project with Gael García Bernal and Will Ferrell shot entirely in Spanish, and with English subtitles. Beginning this March, the actor will be shooting “Contraband” with Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster and Kate Beckinsale.
So, the filming for that Untitled Spanish Project (otherwise known as Casa de mi padre), has been done.
Latin Heat backs this up, complete with the filming for Contraband news! It also mentions, as did Hispanically Speaking, that Canana Films is in development for the Cesar Chavez life story, which they optioned last year in March.
Remember the Calle 13 music video that Diego directed? Terra and Latina.
MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight festival will run until February 29, 2011.
Diego’s been speaking about Presumed Guilty. According to ABC News, Presumed Guilty:
offers a rare front-row look into Mexico's secretive court system, which places the burden of proof on defendants. Trials conducted largely on paper offer no chance for public scrutiny. Critics say this results in a system in which innocent are jailed and criminals go free.
And what did Diego say?
"Indifference and ignorance are the major illnesses we're experiencing," said Diego Luna, the Mexican actor and director who has used his Hollywood star power to promote the documentary. "We've learned to live with injustice and move on as if nothing were wrong."
ABC NewsThe ABC News article states ‘the film would have been almost forgotten in its home country if not for key members of Mexico's entertainment elite, who promoted its commercial release at a moment when botched cases and legal abuses are causing public outrage.’
Presumed Guilty premiered two years ago at the Belfast Film Festival, has been shown in more than a dozen international film festivals as well as on US television; it has also won the Best Documentary category at the Morelia Film Festival in 2009.
The 26th Independent Spirit Award presenters have been announced and one of the presenters?
Diego!
A YouTube video has surfaced of Diego at the inauguration of Ambulante for 2011 (the video can be found immediately below).
Click to viewHispanically Speaking has a profile of Diego, talking about his busy year in 2011. Big news from the profile/article?
He has just finished filming a project with Gael García Bernal and Will Ferrell shot entirely in Spanish, and with English subtitles. Beginning this March, the actor will be shooting “Contraband” with Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster and Kate Beckinsale.
So, the filming for that Untitled Spanish Project (otherwise known as Casa de mi padre), has been done.
Latin Heat backs this up, complete with the filming for Contraband news! It also mentions, as did Hispanically Speaking, that Canana Films is in development for the Cesar Chavez life story, which they optioned last year in March.
Remember the Calle 13 music video that Diego directed? Terra and Latina.