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Los Cabos Film Festival Day 3: Third Annual Film Festival Gala

Los Cabos Film Festival Day 3: Third Annual Film Festival Gala

Friday, November 14, 2014

Yesterday was the third annual Film Festival in Los Cabos, and the red carpet began to shine about 8 p.m. with appearances by fantastic actors and Los Cabos entrepreneurs, including Ana Layevska (Mexican actress),Jose Mará Yazpic (Mexican actor), Guillermo Arriaga (writer and director), the Sánchez Navarro family (Los Cabos entrepreneurs),Maya Zapata (Mexican actress), Ruben Reachi (tourism secretary), Delia Sanchez (Golden Zone’s manager of public relations), and Elizabeth Nicholson (Luxury Avenue’s manager of public relations  in Los Cabos), among others.

In an interview, actress Maya Zapata said she was very happy to be in Los Cabos for the first time and praised the region for its promotion of Mexican cinema, telling Morelia that it now has competition.

The ceremony included a tribute to the work of writer-director-producer Guillermo Arriaga, best known for films like Amores Perros, 21 Gramos, Babel, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and The Burning Plain.

Arriaga was on hand to introduce the film Words with God, saying that it was a “a Mexican production filmed in nine countries with eight of the best directors and myself, who slipped in. This film is an endeavor, and we believe nobody deserves to be rejected, judged, or killed for religious beliefs, sexual preferences, politics, or what you decide to put in your body.”

 

The third annual Los Cabos Film Festival

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Los Cabos Film Festival: Day 2, November 13, 2014

Xavier Dolan, Denys Arcand, Maya Zapata, D.J. Cotrona,  Hugo Stiglitz, Sophie Alexander-Katz Tenoch Huerta,Guillermo Arriaga, Marimar Vega, and Eiza Gonzalez walked the red carpet at the Cultural Pavilion on the second day of the Los Cabos Film Festival.

Yesterday, November 13, the Los Cabos Film Festival’s second gala was held, and the film Mommy—winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes—made its Latina American premiere. The 2014 Canadian drama Mommy was directed by Xavier Dolan, and it will represent Canada in the foreign film category for the 2015 Oscars race.

 

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Celebrities, Industry Leaders Turn Out in Force for Third Annual Los Cabos Film Festival

The third annual Los Cabos Film Festival—previously known as the Baja International Film Festival—kicked off Wednesday, November 12, with red carpet arrivals at the cultural pavilion in downtown Cabo San Lucas. International celebrities, including several well-known Mexican actors, were joined by dignitaries like Alberto Treviño, business leaders like Gian Marco Vela (owner of the Sunset da Mona Lisa) and Sun Rider Tours Yolanda Cortez, as well as festival director Alonso Aguilar.

Diego Luna and Ruben Reachi were among those in attendance for the official kick-off event, which included a tribute to Gabriel Figueroa. Famed film critic Roger Ebert was also celebrated; his widow, Chaz Ebert, accepted the honor.