Antonio Serrano
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José Antonio Serrano Argüelles (May 17, 1955, Mexico City
) is a Mexican
film director
, actor
, playwright
and screenwriter
.
He graduated with a degree in Communications
from the Universidad Iberoamericana
. He also attended the Royal Weber Academy of Dramatic Art in England
and the Odin Teatre of Denmark
. He studied with the following directors: Polish
Jerzy Grotowski
, French
Philippe Gaulier
and Italian
Carlos Bosso. Back in Mexico he worked in the telenovela
(soap opera) industry for Televisa
and TV Azteca
, directing actors such as Gael García Bernal
, Salma Hayek
, Chayanne
and Angélica Aragón
.
He directed ten plays as well including Sexo, pudor y lágrimas, which he also wrote. He made this play into a movie in 1999 which became the highest grossing at the time (118 million Mexican peso
s or 12 million US dollars at the exchange rate of 1999). The movie was seen exhibited for six months by millions and earned several Ariels awarded by the Mexican Academy of Film. His following films were Lucia, Lucia
with All About My Mother
Argentine
actress Cecilia Roth
and the segment El Torzón of the series of short-films about violence in Mexico City titled Cero y van cuatro. Serrano was nominated for the Ariel Award in 2004
for his adaptation of the script of Lucía, Lucía.
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
) is a Mexican
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
, actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
and screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
.
He graduated with a degree in Communications
Communication studies
Communication Studies is an academic field that deals with processes of communication, commonly defined as the sharing of symbols over distances in space and time. Hence, communication studies encompasses a wide range of topics and contexts ranging from face-to-face conversation to speeches to mass...
from the Universidad Iberoamericana
Universidad Iberoamericana
The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...
. He also attended the Royal Weber Academy of Dramatic Art in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and the Odin Teatre of Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
. He studied with the following directors: Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
Jerzy Grotowski
Jerzy Grotowski
Jerzy Grotowski was a Polish theatre director and innovator of experimental theatre, the "theatre laboratory" and "poor theatre" concepts....
, French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
Philippe Gaulier
Philippe Gaulier
Philippe Gaulier is founder of École Philippe Gaulier, a theatre school located in Sceaux, near Paris. He trained with Jacques Lecoq from 1965 - 67. Then became a teacher at École Jacques Lecoq from 1976 - 80. Gaulier is also a playwright and has worked as a clown and theatre director...
and Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
Carlos Bosso. Back in Mexico he worked in the telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
(soap opera) industry for Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...
and TV Azteca
TV Azteca
Azteca, is the second largest Mexican television entertainment. It was established in 1983 as the state-owned Instituto Mexicano de la Televisión , a holding of the national TV networks channel 13 and 7 and was privatized under its current name in 1993 and now is part of Grupo Salinas...
, directing actors such as Gael García Bernal
Gael García Bernal
Gael García Bernal is a Mexican film actor and director.-Early life:García Bernal was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, the son of Patricia Bernal, an actress and former model, and José Ángel García, an actor and director. His stepfather is Sergio Yazbek, whom his mother married when García Bernal was...
, Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek
Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez de Pinault is a Mexican film actress, director and producer. She received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role as Frida Kahlo in the film Frida.-Early life:...
, Chayanne
Chayanne
Elmer Figueroa Arce , best known under the stage name Chayanne, is a Puerto Rican Latin pop singer and actor. As a solo artist, Chayanne has released 21 solo-albums and sold over 20 million albums worldwide.-Early life:...
and Angélica Aragón
Angélica Aragón
Angélica Aragón is a Mexican actress of telenovelas and such films as Dune, A Walk in the Clouds, Bella, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, Vivir un poco, Mirada de mujer, Novia que te vea, and the blockbuster film Sexo, pudor y lágrimas.-Early life:Aragón was born Angélica Espinoza Stransky in Mexico...
.
He directed ten plays as well including Sexo, pudor y lágrimas, which he also wrote. He made this play into a movie in 1999 which became the highest grossing at the time (118 million Mexican peso
Mexican peso
The peso is the currency of Mexico. Modern peso and dollar currencies have a common origin in the 15th–19th century Spanish dollar, most continuing to use its sign, "$". The Mexican peso is the 12th most traded currency in the world, the third most traded in the Americas, and by far the most...
s or 12 million US dollars at the exchange rate of 1999). The movie was seen exhibited for six months by millions and earned several Ariels awarded by the Mexican Academy of Film. His following films were Lucia, Lucia
Lucía, Lucía
Lucía, Lucía, also known as La hija del caníbal, is a Mexican film and the second by Antonio Serrano. The story is based on Spanish journalist Rosa Montero's novel of the same name, 1997 in Spain. The film stars Argentine actress Cecilia Roth , Mexican actor Kuno Becker and Spanish actor Carlos...
with All About My Mother
All About My Mother
All About My Mother is a 1999 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. The film deals with complex issues such as AIDS, transvestitism, faith, and existentialism....
Argentine
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
actress Cecilia Roth
Cecilia Roth
Cecilia Roth is an Argentine actress.Her father, Abrasha Rotenberg , a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Ukraine, is an editor and a journalist. He met Cecilia's mother, an Argentinian singer of Sephardic descent Dina Rot, in Argentina. Cecilia Roth has made appearances in numerous television series...
and the segment El Torzón of the series of short-films about violence in Mexico City titled Cero y van cuatro. Serrano was nominated for the Ariel Award in 2004
Ariel Award in 2004
The XLVI Award of the Premio Ariel of the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas took place on March 30, 2004 at the Palacio de Bellas Artes...
for his adaptation of the script of Lucía, Lucía.
Telenovelas (as a director)
- Cara o cruz (2002)
- La vida en el espejo (1999)
- Mirada de mujerMirada de mujerMirada de mujer is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on TV Azteca in 1997, based in the Colombian telenovela of 1994 " Señora Isabel". It is considered one of the best Telenovelas in the history of the television industry in Mexico...
(1997) - Nada personalNada PersonalNada Personal may refer to:* Nada Personal , by Soda Stereo* Nada personal * "Nada Personal" , theme song to the TV series, by Armando Manzanero...
(1996) - Mágica juventud (1992)
- Teresa (1989)
Theater
- Café americanoCafe AmericanoCaffè Americano, or Americano is a style of coffee prepared by adding hot water to espresso, giving a similar strength but different flavor from regular drip coffee...
(1992) - Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (1990)
- Doble cara (1988)
- A destiempo (1986)
As a director
- Cero y van cuatro (segment "El Torzón") (2004)
- La hija del canibal (Lucía, LucíaLucía, LucíaLucía, Lucía, also known as La hija del caníbal, is a Mexican film and the second by Antonio Serrano. The story is based on Spanish journalist Rosa Montero's novel of the same name, 1997 in Spain. The film stars Argentine actress Cecilia Roth , Mexican actor Kuno Becker and Spanish actor Carlos...
) (2003) - Sexo, pudor y lágrimasSexo, pudor y lágrimasSexo, pudor y lágrimas is a Mexican film, the second of the so-called New Era of the Cinema of Mexico . It was the first film directed by Antonio Serrano....
(Sex, Shame & Tears) (1999) - Hidalgo: La historia jamás contada (2010)
As a screenwriter
- La hija del canibal (Lucía, Lucía) (2003, adaptation)
- Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (Sex, Shame & Tears) (1999, origina; script)
As an actor
- Un mundo maravillosoUn mundo maravillosoUn mundo maravilloso is a 2006 Mexican comedy film/fairy tale produced by Bandidos Films, directed by Luis Estrada and considered a "spiritual sequel" to La ley de Herodes; it's a political satire about Vicente Fox Quesada's government and its neo-liberal doctrine.Contrary to La ley de Herodes,...
(2006) - Un hilito de sangre (1995)
- La dedicatoria (1992)
- The Comfort of StrangersThe Comfort of StrangersThe Comfort of Strangers is a 1981 novel by British writer Ian McEwan. It is his second novel, and is set in an unnamed city . It was adapted into a film in 1990 , which starred Rupert Everett, Christopher Walken, Helen Mirren and Natasha Richardson...
(1990) - La última luna (1990)
- RomeroRomero (film)Romero is a film depicting the life of assassinated Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero, played by Raúl Juliá. Richard Jordan played the role of Romero's close friend and fellow martyred priest Rutilio Grande, and actors Ana Alicia and Harold Gould also appeared in the film.Romero was the first...
(1989) - Tranquille donne di compagna (1980)