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New ambassador of Cannes Critics Week: Bernal

He has pretty much made it his home away from home – after presenting 2004’s The Motorcycle Diaries and Bad Education, The King in 2005 and Babel in 2006,

Eric Lavallée

Published on April 13, 2007

He has pretty much made it his home away from home – after presenting 2004's The Motorcycle Diaries and Bad Education, The King in 2005 and Babel in 2006, and to show he hasn’t worn out his welcome, Gael Garcia Bernal has been picked as ambassador of the Critics Week sidebar at Cannes. The final selection for the Critics Week lineup will be announced April 26.

Garcia Bernal will present his directorial debut, Déficit – written by Kyzza Terrazas, this is an adaptation of a television episode of Ruta 32 which focuses on class differences in Mexico.

A bit of trivia: Amores Perros was the section's winner that year.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).