‘I’m No Longer Here’ Director Fernando Frias Talks About the Mexican Film Biz

Relative unknown Mexican actor Diego Calva has nabbed a career-changing role and will now join Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt in Babylon, the drama set in the Golden Age of Hollywood that Damien Chazelle is directing for Paramount. Rising actors Jovan Adepoand LiJun Li will also be on the call sheet as part of the ensemble when cameras roll this summer in Los Angeles.

Manuel Betancourt “Fauna” is a curious proposition. On the surface, the ninth feature from Mexican-Canadian independent filmmaker Nicolás Pereda consists of a series of dialogue-driven scenes taking place in a remote Mexican village where an estranged brother and sister are visiting their parents.

Say it loud and proud! Bekah Martinez hit back at trolls who have told her she’s not “Mexican enough” in an interview for Parents Latina‘s April/May 2021 issue.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicJoining Variety for its first-ever all-music edition of the “Strictly Business” podcast is Sony Music Group chairman Rob Stringer, who oversees the standalone labels Columbia, RCA, Epic and Arista Records as well as Sony Music Publishing and The Orchard and leads a staff of more than 5,000 employees around the world.Stringer has spent his entire professional career in the Sony system, starting out as a marketing trainee in his native U.K., then moving up

Thomas Markle reacted to his daughter Meghan Markle and her husband Prince Harry's bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey on Tuesday, and amid his defense of the British royal family, he voiced regret for the staged photos he took in Mexico that ultimately led to his estrangement from the Duchess of Sussex.

Ricardo González, known as Cepillín, has died at the age of 75. González died after entering intensive care yesterday for heart failure and pneumonia.

Good Morning Britain today.Thomas joined Piers and Susanna on the show following his daughter Meghan's tell-all two-hour interview with Oprah Winfrey.As he spoke live from his home in Mexico, Thomas discussed the comments his daughter made during the controversial interview, the Mirror reports.On GMB, Meghan's father held his hands up and admitted that he lied to his daughter and also worked with the press in 2018 but said it has been a long time since he spoke to his estranged daughter and the

direct to your inboxThomas Markle, the father of the Duchess of Sussex, said he was "disappointed" after seeing his daughter’s interview with Oprah Winfrey. The explosive interview with Meghan and Prince Harry is being discussed across the world after it aired in the US on Sunday night before being aired in the UK on ITV.

Activist Rose McGowan says the political divide in America contributed to her decision to move out of the United States to Mexico last year. Speaking with Fox News from her new home, the former "Charmed" actress detailed her current path to healing after feeling rather depleted in the wake of Harvey Weinstein's early 2020 New York trial as well as the build-up to the presidential election.

EXCLUSIVE: Sales outfit FilmSharks has signed a deal with Videocine, the Mexican company affiliated with Televisa, to represent international rights on its upcoming Spanish-language feature Come Play With Me (Juega Conmigo).

James Linhardt “Ya No Estoy Aquí (I’m No Longer Here),” the third feature from Mexican director Fernando Frías de la Parra, paints a stirringly cinematic portrait of cultural dislocation and youthful rebellion. It’s an epic drama built upon an authentic, documentary-style depiction of Monterrey, Mexico’s Kolombiano subculture, focused on a youth gang bonded together not by violence, but by music.

Editors note: Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker Prize in 2008 for his debut novel The White Tiger, which his old Columbia University classmate Ramin Bahrani turned into the movie that has been generating awards buzz since its Netflix release in January. Adiga penned a guest column for Deadline about how the pair became fast friends by bonding over Scorsese films in Bahrani’s dorm room, a kinship that has lasted ever since.

EXCLUSIVE: Lion’s Heart (Corazón de León), which is one of the most successful Argentinian movies of all time with more than two million cinema tickets sold, will be getting the Italian remake treatment after the Fremantle-owned Wildside landed rights.

There is a long list of films that were turned down by one major film festival only to have a breakout moment at another. For example, Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood” ended up going to Sundance after Cannes passed and Lena Dunham’s “Tiny Furniture” went to SXSW after Sundance passed.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Mexican filmmaker Fernando Frias’s latest feature, “I’m No Longer Here,” has garnered a host of awards since it was minted at the Sundance Screenwriters lab. Now streaming on Netflix, the film’s depiction of a nearly extinct countercultural movement framed against an immigration drama has won accolades from Oscar-winning directors Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron.It’s shortlisted to represent Mexico at the Oscars in 2021.

 America Ferrera  is already an Emmy and Golden Globe winner, but she’s about to add another accomplishment to her growing resume. The actress is set to make her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter.