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Originally published on January 23, 2021 6:22 pm
Mexican film directors have enjoyed success at the Academy Awards in recent years. Alfonso Cuarón won an Oscar for directing
Gravity in 2014, and for
Roma in 2019
Birdman and the following year for The Revenant. And Guillermo del Toro won his Oscar for directing The Shape of Water in 2018. Now, the Tres Amigos, as they re known, may welcome uno más: up-and-coming filmmaker Fernando Frías de la Parra. His film
I m No Longer Here is Mexico s Academy Award entry for Best International Feature Film.
The film, also titled
Ya No Estoy Aqui, is set in 2010, during a real, but very brief, cultural phenomenon that happened in Monterrey, Mexico. That s when teens in the industrial city s impoverished barrios would hang out in the streets wearing baggy clothes, singing and dancing to nostalgic cumbia music from Colombia.
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Director Fernando Frías arrives for the screening of the HBO series Los Espookys on June 2019 in New York City.
Mexican film directors have enjoyed success at the Academy Awards in recent years. Alfonso Cuarón won an Oscar for directing
Gravity in 2014, and for
Romain 2019
Birdmanand the following year for
The Revenant.And Guillermo del Toro won his Oscar for directing
The Shape of Water in 2018. Now, the Tres Amigos, as they re known, may welcome uno más: up-and-coming filmmaker Fernando Frías de la Parra. His film
I m No Longer Here is Mexico s Academy Award entry for Best International Feature Film.