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Matilde Landeta
Matilde Soto Landeta (20 September 1913 – 26 January 1999) was a Mexicans, Mexican filmmaker and screenwriter, the first woman to serve in those roles during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema (1936-1956). Her films focused on the portrayal of strong, realistic female protagonists in a Patriarchy, patriarchal world. Early life Landeta was born on 20 September 1913 in Mexico City to a wealthy family, the daughter of Gregorio Soto Conde and Matilde Landeta Dávalos. After the death of her mother when she was three years of age, Landeta moved to San Luis, Potosí, where she was raised by her aunt and grandmother. She then moved back to Mexico City where she continued her studies in a monastery for Dominican mothers. Her love for film was born when she watched the film ''Old San Francisco'' during a trip to the United States. Growing up in San Luis, she would play theater with her brother and friends, going so far as to hitting the other children if they didn't memorize their lines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexicans
Mexicans () are the citizens and nationals of the Mexico, United Mexican States. The Mexican people have varied origins with the most spoken language being Spanish language, Spanish, but many also speak languages from 68 different Languages of Mexico, Indigenous linguistic groups and other languages brought to Mexico by expatriates or recent immigration. In 2020, 19.4% of Mexico's population identified as Indigenous peoples of Mexico, Indigenous. There are currently about 12 million Mexican nationals residing outside Mexico, with about 11.7 million living in the United States. The larger Mexican diaspora can also include individuals that trace ancestry to Mexico and self-concept, self-identify as Mexican but are not necessarily Mexican citizenship, Mexican by citizenship. The United States has the largest Mexican population in the world after Mexico at 10,918,205 in 2021. The modern nation of Mexico achieved independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, after a decade-long war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Road Of Life (film)
''The Road of Life'' () is a 1956 Mexican drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ... directed by Alfonso Corona Blake. At the 6th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Honourable Mention award for the director. Cast * Luis Alba * Guillermo Bravo Sosa * Antonio Brillas * José Chávez * Rafael Estrada * Carmen Funés * Eufrosina García * Guido García * Ignacio García Torres * Rafael González * Mario Humberto Jiménez Pons * Rogelio 'Frijolitos' Jiménez Pons * Enrique Lucero * Miguel Manzano * Roberto Meyer * Eduardo Moreno * Inés Murillo * Mario Navarro * Ismael Pérez * Víctor Pérez References External links * 1956 films 1950s Spanish-language films 1956 crime drama films Best Picture Ariel Award winners Films directed by Alfon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vamonos Con Pancho Villa
''Let's Go with Pancho Villa'' ( Spanish: ''Vámonos con Pancho Villa'') is a Mexican motion picture directed by Fernando de Fuentes in 1936, the last of the director's '' Revolution Trilogy'', besides '' El prisionero trece'' and '' El compadre Mendoza''. Like the previous films in the trilogy, the film is critical towards propagandist views of the Mexican Revolution by portraying the conflicts as a tragic series of events within Mexican history, emphasized by the characterization of its titular character, general Pancho Villa, being depicted as a cruel leader instead of a national hero. The movie is thought to have been the first Mexican super-production and led to the bankruptcy of the film company that made it. Plot Villa was portrayed by Domingo Soler. Directed by Fernando de Fuentes, the film tells the story of a group of six friends, or ''rancheros'', who hear about the revolution and Villa and decide to join him, only to suffer the cruel reality of war under the comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Familia Dressel
''The Dressel Family'' (Spanish: ''La familia Dressel'') is a 1935 Mexican film. It was directed by Fernando de Fuentes. External links * 1935 films 1930s Spanish-language films Films directed by Fernando de Fuentes Mexican black-and-white films Mexican drama films 1935 drama films 1930s Mexican films Spanish-language drama films {{1930s-Mexico-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Calandria (1933 Film)
''La calandria'' (The Lark/The CanaryThe word technically refers to the Chalk-browed mockingbird but English sources give other translations.) is a 1933 Mexican film. It was directed by Fernando de Fuentes. It is based on a novel by Rafael Delgado. Plot Alberto, a rich landlord, is forcing his attention on Carmen (nicknamed La calandria), who recently lost her mother. But she is in love with Gabriel. Cast * Carmen Guerrero: Carmen (La calandria) * Paco Berrondo: Gabriel * Adria Delhort: Malena * Francisco Zárraga: Alberto Production The film was shot in the México Film studios from 8 July 1933 onwards. Some scenes were shot on location in Orizaba. A "tragic love story", it is one of the films made by de Fuentes in an intense period of creativity in the early 1930s, these films being called "all exceptional works of the early sound period." The film has also been described as "a traditionalist and provincial melodrama." It is also one of the Mexican films "set in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Prisionero Trece
''Prisoner 13'' (Spanish: ''El prisionero trece'') is a 1933 Mexican film. It was directed by Fernando de Fuentes. Plot The film is a part of the trilogy of films made by Fernando Fuentes concerning the Mexican Revolution, the other two films being '' El compadre Mendoza'' (1934) and '' Vámonos con Pancho Villa'' (1936). The film centers on the drunkard Colonel Carrasco, whose wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man. Having been promoted to a higher rank of power amidst the Mexican Revolution, the indulgent and corrupt Colonel accepts a bribe to free a revolutionary, Felipe Martinez, from his prison. Martinez has been sentenced to execution at the hands of a firing squad. Carrasco asks to have the revolutionary replaced by absolutely anyone. In a twist of fate, that anyone turns out to be his own long lost son Juan. Upon receiving this news, Marta races to the prison and explains the predicament to Carras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Compadre Mendoza
''Godfather Mendoza'' (Spanish: ''El compadre Mendoza'') is a 1934 Mexican film. It was directed by Fernando de Fuentes, and is the second of his '' Revolution Trilogy'', preceded by ''El prisionero trece'' (1933) and followed by '' Vámonos con Pancho Villa (1936)''. In 1994, the Mexican magazine ''Somos'' published a list of " The 100 best movies of the cinema of Mexico" in its 100th edition and choose ''El compadre Mendoza'' the 3rd best of all time, just behind ''Vámonos con Pancho Villa'' and '' Los olvidados''.Las 100 mejores películas del cine mexicano . September 17, 2012 Plot This is the story of Rosalío Mendoza, a Mexican landowner during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Rosalío survives by befriending both the army and the revolutionaries. Everyone is welcomed in his ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lola Casanova
''Lola Casanova'' is a 1948 Mexican western film directed by Matilde Landeta Matilde Soto Landeta (20 September 1913 – 26 January 1999) was a Mexicans, Mexican filmmaker and screenwriter, the first woman to serve in those roles during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema (1936-1956). Her films focused on the portrayal of st ... and starring Meche Barba, Isabela Corona and Enrique Cancino. The film's sets were designed by Luis Moya. Synopsis The movie traces the history of a creole woman who starts living with an Indian man to help the Indian community in their dealings with society. Cast * Meche Barba as Lola Casanova * Isabela Corona as Tortola parda * Enrique Cancino as Lobo zaino * Armando Silvestre as Coyote Iguana * José Baviera as Don Nestor * Carlos Martínez Baena as Don Diego Casanova * Ernesto Vilches * Guillermo Calles * Ramón Gay as Juan Vega * Jaime Jiménez Pons as Indalecio * Miguel Montemayor as Romerito * Enriqueta Reza as Nan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Women's Year
International Women's Year (IWY) was the name given to 1975 by the United Nations. Since that year March 8 has been celebrated as International Women's Day, and the United Nations Decade for Women, from 1976 to 1985, was also established. History It began in New York City on March 8, 1857, when female textile workers marched in protest of unfair working conditions and unequal rights for women. It was one of the first organized strikes by working women, during which they called for a shorter work day and decent wages. After years of work by the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to adopt a declaration to eliminate discrimination against women, in 1965, CSW began working in earnest to obtain passage of a declaration to secure women's human rights. Collating responses covering education, employment, inheritance, penal reform, and other issues, from government actors, NGO representatives and UN staff, CSW delegates drafted the Declaration on the Elimination of Discri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (), usually called the Berlinale (), is an annual film festival held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of Europe's "Film festival#Notable festivals, Big Three" film festivals alongside the Venice Film Festival held in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival held in France. Furthermore, it is one of the "Film festival#Notable festivals, Big Five", the most prestigious film festivals in the world. The festival regularly draws tens of thousands of visitors each year. About 400 films are shown at multiple venues across Berlin, mostly in and around Potsdamer Platz. They are screened in nine sections across cinematic genres, with around twenty films competing for the festival's top awards in the Competition section. The major awards, called the Golden Bear and #Awards, Silver Bears, are decided on by the international jury, chaired by an internationally recog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel Award
The Ariel Award () is an award that recognizes the best of Mexican cinema. Given annually, since 1946, by the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas, Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AMACC), the award recognizes artistical and technical excellence in the Cinema of Mexico, Mexican film industry. The purpose of the Ariel recognition is to stimulate and increase the excellence of Mexican cinema, favor the growth of the industry, and promote the meeting and strengthening of the national film community. It is regarded as the most prestigious award in the Mexican film industry and considered Mexico, Mexico's equivalent to the Academy Awards, Oscars of the United States. History The statuette is in the image of a man and it was designed by the sculpture, sculptor Ignacio Asúnsolo. The original statuette is currently found inside Estudios Churubusco, Churubusco Studios in Mexico City. The name "Ariel" was inspired by a series of short writings c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonora
Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is divided into Municipalities of Sonora, 72 municipalities; the capital (and largest) city of which is Hermosillo, located in the center of the state. Other large cities include Ciudad Obregón, Nogales, Sonora, Nogales (on the Mexico–United States border, Mexico-United States border), San Luis Río Colorado, and Navojoa. Sonora is bordered by the states of Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua to the east, Baja California to the west (of the north portion) and Sinaloa to the southeast. To the north, it shares a border with the United States, and on the southwest has a significant share of the coastline of the Gulf of California. Sonora's natural geography is divided into three parts: the Sierra Madre Occidental in the east of the state; plains and rolling hills in the center; and the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
