The kidnappers were often ghetto boys, some as young as 14, waving big guns in small hands and demanding ransoms ranging from millions of dollars to 2 quarts of milk, a dozen eggs, sugar and a sack of rice. They slipped through alleys like ragged spirits, dodging dogs and counting bullets in a Mexico run […]
“Days of Grace,” the debut feature from Everardo Gout, a Mexican filmmaker with a background in music videos and television commercials, weaves together three stories of violence and corruption in Mexico City. Mr. Gout and his tremendously talented cinematographer, Luis David Sansans (whose credits include Alfonso Cuarón’s “Y Tu Mama Tambien” and Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo+Juliet”), […]
“I went to talk to ex-kidnappers, to policemen, the corrupt ones, the good ones, to a lot of victims of kidnapping and that… showed me the awful truth of what was going on in my country.” REMEZCLA. By Andrew S. Vargas […]
Días de Gracia, de Everardo Gout; Miss Bala, de Gerardo Naranjo; y Pastorela, de Emilio Portes, se disputan el Ariel a Mejor Película y el de mejor director, en la entrega de premios de la Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas. ANIMAL POLÍTICO. Redacción […]