Tag: David Zonana

2023 San Sebastián: Lila Avilés, Felipe Galvez, David Zonana & Carolina Markowicz Fill Horizontes Latinos Section

A dozen film titles with items dating back to this year's Sundance (David Zonana's Heroic), Berlinale (Lila Aviles' Totem and Tatiana Huezo's The Echo)...

Interview: David Zonana – Heroic

In his sophomore feature, David Zonana plunges into the dark underpinnings that propel military college-type institutions in Mexico (not much different around the world)...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #68. David Zonana’s Heroic

Heroic A sophomore feature that we thought might drop in '22 will instead break out this month at Sundance. Mexican filmmaker David Zonana who gave...

2022 Venice Film Festival: 70 Predictions (Part I) Iñárritu, Dominik, Zlotowski & Escalante

This week we throw ourselves into predicting the world premiere options for both the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals. We begin by looking...

2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Un Certain Regard

Hovering around the eighteen to twenty film selection range, the Un Certain Regard section wasn't necessarily overhauled but there was an unofficial memo that...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #51. David Zonana’s Heroico

Heroico A longtime producer for Michel Franco's films, Mexican filmmaker David Zonana finally kicked off his feature filmmaking career with Workforce (Mano de obra) in...

The Conversation: Top 10 Films of the 2019 Toronto Intl. Film Festival

Surprises were few and far between at a relatively reserved 2019 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. Sans a rather intense interest in...

The Conversation: 10 Most Anticipated Films – TIFF 2019

Despite its various programming cutbacks over the past several years, TIFF remains an overwhelming buffet of juxtapositions. A marvelous chance to catch up on...

The Conversation: Leaping to Locarno’s Leopard

Arriving August 7th and extending through August 17th, the Locarno Film Festival and its leaping Leopard is the final stepping stone before the grand...

Interview: Michel Franco – Las hijas de Abril | 2018 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival

Having been ardent fan of this filmmaker since being introduced to his minimalist essay on how an assault on the affluent can infuse toxicity...

The Conversation: 2019 Cannes Film Festival Predictions

For several reasons, the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival was something of a slight progression, if at least for the number of...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #99. Labor (Mano de obra) – David Zonana

Labor (Mano de obra) Mexican producer David Zonana steps into the director’s chair with his debut Labor (Mano de obra), produced through Michel Franco’s Mexico...

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