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After graduating with a degree in Anthropology from the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, she formed the Mexican cinematic collective Cine 70 with her husband, writer-director Paul Leduc, director Rafael Castanedo and cinematographer Alexis Grivas.
Nov 13, 2022 · He is survived by his wife of 67+ years, Bertha Navarro Moraga, and his children, Monica Hart (Scott), Herman "Bobo", Jesse, Victor (Emily), Marisa Dillon (Jeff), Martha and Philip.
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- Gregory Nava on The Surprise Oscar Nomination For Best Original Screenplay
- David Villalpando on The Dangers of Shooting A Church Scene in Aguacatenango
- Gregory Nava on A Real Incident Inspiring The Washing Machine Scene
- Gregory Nava on Sears Refusing to Lend Them Washing Machines For The Film
- Gregory Nava on Armed Men Shutting Down Production in Mexico
- Gregory Nava on Steven Spielberg Being Impressed by One Particular Scene
- Gregory Nava on The Difficulty of Getting Rodents to Act
- Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez on Shooting The Rat Scene in Silence
- Gregory on Why The Film Resonated with Audiences and Critics
It’s a pretty historic script, in the sense that it was nominated for an Academy Award, and this was the first independent film that got an Academy Award nomination, and it was pretty shocking when it happened to us, because we weren’t even expecting that. It was incredible, because there was no Oscar campaign for El Norte. It had been released in ...
We were almost killed in Aguacatenango, Chiapas. It was a very dangerous place. Gregory Nava wanted to film inside the church in Aguacatenango. It’s the scene where Zaide lights the candles inside the church, and Gregory chose that location. It’s a wonderful place, but the indigenous people were a little drunk because it was dos de noviembre, the D...
We were working with the Kanjobal community of Mayan refugees, and they were mainly at that time, as you see in the film, working in downtown Los Angeles in sweat shops, and Luis Marroquín, who was one of the men we were working with, said, “We’re helping you, why don’t you help us? Our young women, they don’t like working in the sweat shops, so we...
When we went out to shoot the scene, we thought, “Ok, people are loaning us stuff and helping us with things, and the washing machines are from Sears,” and Sears went, “Sure, we’ll help you, let’s see the scene.” So we sent the script to Sears, and we got a message back saying, “No, you can’t have these machines for your movie,” because they didn’t...
That huge hacienda down in Morelos, where we were shooting the scene with the men being killed by the army, that was the day that the men came to shut the movie down because it was politically too heavy an image. There were wars in Guatemala and El Salvador, and the Mexican economy had collapsed, and they were very tenuous that Mexico would go into...
It turns out that rats are very finicky, very particular, and very hard. As a matter of fact, after this movie was released, I got a phone call from Steven Spielberg. He said, “I loved the movie,” and that’s when I met him. I went to his place, and we watched the movie together. But after saying, “It’s wonderful, I really loved it,” he asked, “How ...
Rats just come to the set and start preening themselves and they look cute. I talked to Ron Oxley, and I said, “I want them to run and attack, so how do you do get them to do that?” He said, “The only way to do it is to have them on the set, you have to have a dummy camera, doubles dressed like Zaide and David, everything has to be exactly the way ...
I would like to say that, in the tunnel with 200 rats, I didn’t want to get in, because I’m rat-phobic, but my Producer and Director convinced me to go in. But I remember that we couldn’t scream or make any sound, because the rats were scared of us, so we had to shoot silent, just miming our faces for the screaming, and then we made the sound at a ...
I was reading an essay recently where they were talking about these various films that came before El Norte, like Salt of the Earth and Border Incident, and none of them had any impact, and suddenly this film was a tremendous hit and had lines around the block. As I said, it played for a year. This essay was speculating on what did El Nortehave tha...
Sep 12, 2019 · Making the film wasn’t easy; Nava and producers Anna Thomas and Bertha Navarro underwent a series of harrowing run-ins with the Mexican authorities while filming there, and their shoot was...
Apr 18, 2023 · I met Bertha Navarro’s son, Memo García, when I visited San Luis Potosí, Mexico, for a Women’s National Championship in 2018. I was then the president of the Mexican Women’s Golf Association. Memo had found Bertha’s trophies, clubs and photographs and realized his mom had been a great golfer.
Nov 10, 2007 · She is closely linked with Tequila Gang partners Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron, who co-produced Sebastian Cordero’s “Cronicas” and del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth” with her. Navarro’s...
Jul 30, 2023 · Her family was her everything! Yolanda will be preceded into death by her husband Thomas "Tommy" Navarro and daughter Melissa Ann Perez. She is survived by her son, John (Melissa) Navarro; daughter, Vivian (Eric) Duarte; son-in-law Johnny Perez; sister, Bertha Navarro; grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.
