Felipe Cazals is a Mexican 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:...

, 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:...

 and producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 born in Guethary

Guéthary

Guéthary is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France. It is located in the traditional Basque province of Labourd, the town traditionally standing on the northernmost coastal linguistic boundary of the Basque language....

, France

France

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, but registered as born in Zapopan

Zapopan

Zapopan is a city and municipality located in the Mexican state of Jalisco, which is part of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area. It is best known as being the home of the Virgin of Zapopan, an image of the Virgin Mary which was made in the 16th century. This image has been credited with a number of...

, Jalisco

Jalisco

Jalisco officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in Western Mexico and divided in 125 municipalities and its capital city is Guadalajara.It is one of the more important states...

, where he lived his childhood, before being established with his family in Mexico City

Mexico City

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. He was born of Spaniard

Spain

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 parents exiled after the Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War

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, and he studied film production in France.

Together with Arturo Ripstein

Arturo Ripstein

Arturo Ripstein y Rosen is a Mexican film director.-Life and career:Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir...

 and Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...

 is considered in Mexico one of the most representative film directors of his generation. His masterworks (1986), Las Poquianchis (1976), El Apando (1976) and Canoa

Canoa (film)

Canoa is a 1976 Mexican drama film directed by Felipe Cazals. The film is based on real events about a group of employees of the Autonomous University of Puebla who go mountain climbing to La Malinche and have to spend the night in a small town called San Miguel Canoa, where they are confused...

(1976), make him considered to be one of the most creative and bitter-critic filmmaker in the history of Latin-American movies. Canoa was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival

26th Berlin International Film Festival

The 26th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 25 to July 6, 1976.-Jury:* Jerzy Kawalerowicz * Hannes Schmidt* Marjorie Bilbow* Michel Ciment* Guido Cinotti* Georgi Daneliya* Wolf Hart* Bernard R...

, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize

Jury Grand Prix

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Filmography

• Chico Grande (2010)
• Las Vueltas del citrillo (2006)
• Digna: Hasta el último aliento (2004)
• Su alteza serenísima (2000), His Most Serene Highness (International: English title)
• Kino (1993)
• Desvestidas y alborotadas (1991)
• Burbujas de amor (1991)
• La Furia de un dios (1987) (1986)
• Testimonios de la revolución (1986)[TV Series]
• El Tres de copas (1986)
• La Dama solitaria (1985) [TV Series]
• Damian (1985) [TV Series]
• Dulce espiritu (1985) [TV Series]
• La Habitación que silva (1985) [TV Series]
• Pesadilla (1985) [TV Series]
• Los Motivos de Luz (1985)
• Centenario (1984)
• Bajo la metralla (1983)
• El Qué sabe, sabe(1983) [TV Series]
• Siete cucas, Las (1981)
• El Gran triunfo (1981)
• Rigo es amor (1980)
• El Año de la Peste
  El Año de la Peste
  El Año de la Peste is a Mexican motion picture categorized as drama, thriller and Sci-Fi. It was filmed in 1978 and released in 1979. The production counted with the famous Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez for the adapted screenplay from the novel of Daniel Defoe A Journal of the Plague...
  
   (1979)
• La Guera Rodríguez (1978)
• Las Poquianchis (1976)
• El Apando (1976)
• Canoa
  Canoa (film)
  Canoa is a 1976 Mexican drama film directed by Felipe Cazals. The film is based on real events about a group of employees of the Autonomous University of Puebla who go mountain climbing to La Malinche and have to spend the night in a small town called San Miguel Canoa, where they are confused...
  
   (1976)
• Investigación cientifica (1975)
• Testimonios y documentos; Paro agrario (1975)
• Los que viven donde el viento sopla suave (1974)
• Aquellos años (1973)
• Jardín de tía Isabel, El (1971)
• Emiliano Zapata (1970)
• Familiaridades (1969) , Familiarities (International: English title)
• La Manzana de la discordia (1968), The Apple of Discord (International: English title)
• Alfonso Reyes (1965)
• Leonora Carrington o el sortilegio ironico (1965)
• Mariana Alcoforado (1965)
• La Otra guerra (1965)
• Que se callen... (1965)

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