Known for Production
Born
May 31, 1950 (age 76)
Birthplace
Cordoba, Veracruz, Mexico
Filmography
14 films


Such is Life
2001 · 1h 38m
country: France
After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, the helping of her caring, but cynical godmother, is not enough to prevent Julia from plotting her revenge.


The Ruination of Men
2000 · 1h 46m
country: Mexico
A woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home.


In The Country Where Nothing Happens
2000 · 1h 31m
country: Mexico
A crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom.


Speaking of Buñuel
2000 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative, his films are florid, flamboyant, and utterly bizarre.


Entangling Shadows
1998 · 1h 33m
country: Venezuela
Documentary that celebrates 100 years of cinema in Latin America and talks about the origins and the development of cinema in this subcontinent. Its structure is based in 12 short films directed by various Latin American directors. These are: 1) "Los inicios", Iván Trujillo 2) "Cuando comenzamos a hablar", María Novaro 3) "Jugando en serio", Jacobo Morales 4) "De cuerpo presente [Las espirales perpetuas del placer y el poder] Cine Mexicano [1931- 1997]", Marcela Fernández Violante 5) "Cuando quisimos ser adultos", Edmundo Aray and David Rodríguez 6) "Cinema Novo", Orlando Senna 7) "Memorias de una isla, Juan Carlos Tabío 8) "Un grito, 24 cuadros por segundo", Julio García-Espinosa 9) "El día de la independencia", Federico García 10) "¿Sólo las formas permanecen?", Fernando Birri and Pablo Rodríguez Gauregui 11) "Todo final es un principio", Andrés Marriquín.


Oedipus Mayor
1996 · 1h 40m
country: Colombia
Edipo, is appointed mayor of a town plunged in misery and violence. His first mission is to discover and punish the murderers of Layo, a well-known potentate of the region. His investigation is directed towards all the armed factions that exist in Colombia.


The Garden of Eden
1994 · 1h 44m
country: Canada
Tijuana is a mystical city and the scene of different stories, where the characters search for meaning in their lives.


Danzón
1991 · 1h 42m
country: Mexico
A telephone operator from Mexico City tries to support a family and her passion for popular dance.


Lola
1989 · 1h 32m
country: Mexico
A single mother sells clothes on the streets to support her daughter in Mexico City after the earthquake.


What Do You Think?
1986 · 1h 15m
country: Mexico
A gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer through the streets, to rock concerts, and to the bars and clubs, where he exposes the hunger, repression, unhealthy conditions and violence in the marginal communities of Mexico's capital city.


Complot Petróleo: La cabeza de la hidra
1981 · 4h
country: Mexico
While Mexico swims in the oil veins that were deeded to him by the Devil, a bureaucrat is thrown into a whirlwind of intrigue and international espionage where he discovers that the guts of the beast in charge are one and the same, and the evacuation conduit itself. : We are the shit of that monster. At the same time, a man and a woman discover that behind their passion there is a dark reality that drives them to disguise as action what is only hunger, suffering, desire.