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Riggen partnered up with writer and producer Ligiah Villabobos for the creation of Under the Same Moon. Riggen and Villabobos are both Mexican-born but relocated to the United States, and after taking many years to embrace their careers, they became extremely passionate about the work they produced.
Mar 19, 2008 · Written by Ligiah Villalobos who worked as a studio executive and knows what sells and directed, with visible earnestness, by Patricia Riggen, “Under the Same Moon” blunts the hard edges of...
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Mar 18, 2008 · The immigration issue has in the last few years become a hot one in part due to economic angst and homeland security paranoia, but Mexican director Patricia Riggen and screenwriter Ligiah...
- Patricia Riggen is best known for directing the 2007 film Under the Same Moon and the 2011 Disney Channel original film Lemonade Mouth.
- Patricia Riggen had many jobs up and into her early 20s, she worked as a writer for her local Guadalajara newspaper, worked for producer Bertha Navarro, and collected research on the death industry for a Guillaremeo Del Toro documentary.
- Patricia Riggen moved to New York City, where she received her master's degree in directing and screenwriting at Columbia University.
- Patricia Riggen noted, "I had to write and direct all my exercises and English is not my first language, so I started writing all these little movies that had no dialogue".
Under the Same Moon (Spanish: La misma luna) is a 2007 drama film directed by Patricia Riggen (in her feature film directorial debut) and starring Kate del Castillo, Adrián Alonso, and Eugenio Derbez.
“I don’t know what I think of my work—I let the people tell me,” said Mexican-born director Patricia Riggen of her first feature, “Under the Same Moon,” about a young boy trying to cross the border to reach his mother, an undocumented immigrant working in Los Angeles, after his grandmother’s death.
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Mar 20, 2008 · That story is, as told by director Patricia Riggen and writer Ligiah Villalobos, a little too sweetly predictable for its own good.
