José Luis García Agraz (born 16 November 1952) is a Mexican
film director
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. He was born in
Mexico City
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UNAM
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.
Writer and Director
His script ''Los supersabios'' was turned into an animated feature in 1975. He was assistant director to José Estrada in ''Maten al león'' (1975) and ''Los indolentes''; to
Julián Pastor
Julián Pastor (18October 194324August 2015) was a Mexican actor and film director. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1973 to 2008.
Filmography
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1943 births
2015 deaths
Mexican male film actors
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in ''El esperado amor desesperado'' (1975) and ''La casta divina'' (1976); to
Gonzalo Martínez
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Club career
Martínez was born in Candelaria, Valle del Cauca. He started his professional career in the Colombia ...
in ''Del otro lado del puente'' (1977), and to
Arturo Ripstein
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in ''La viuda negra'' (1977) and ''Cadena perpetua'' (1978).
His first
short film
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''Háblame de Rita'' (1979), which he also wrote, was shown at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival in
Bilbao
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. His second short ''Patricio'' (1982) received an
Ariel award
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. It was also selected for the Festival Internacional de Nuevo Cine in
Havana
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Amiens
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,
Madrid
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and
New York City
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among others.
Agraz followed up with a number of features, notable among which are ''Sueños de oro'' / ''Dreams of gold'' (a co-production between México and the USA, 1984); ''La paloma azul'' (a Japanese-Mexican co-production, 1989); and ''Desiertos mares'' (1993), which won him the best director prize at the Ariel awards in 1994. He repeated the feat in 2004 with ''El Misterio del Trinidad''.
Educational work
He has also made a number of documentaries and educational programs for television. As a professor of film, he has taught at the
Universidad Iberoamericana
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Universidad Anáhuac
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