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Shamethe filmmaker’s debut feature Miguel Salgadoproduced by the Fund for Quality Film Production, through the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (Imcine), in collaboration with the Cinematographic Training Center (CCC) was awarded the Saint George of Gold in it Moscow Film Festival.
The official synopsis of this portrait of systemic violence in the country says that:
“Pedro and Lucio are going to Mexico City in style: they want to enter a baseball academy. On their way back to their town, the truck they are traveling in breaks down. A criminal group makes them live their worst night; only Pedro survives. But the consequences of this event will make him go from fear to guilt, to the attempt to reconstruct a shattered identity in a lonely wasteland on the highway.”
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In an interview with the Mexican filmmaker after his film received the award for Best Narrative Feature Film at the Houston Latino Film Festival, Salgado commented that the real problems of the country, coupled with investigations, are what generate the reflections that, later, They materialize in their work.
It was, however, the massacres perpetrated against immigrants in San Fernando, in 2010 and 2011, that made him start writing the script.
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After seeing Vuelven (Issa López, 2017) on the recommendation of Meraqui Pradis, he was convinced that Juan Ramón López should be the protagonist of it, since not only his acting ability allowed it, but also many experiences of his life.
In addition to the latter, Myriam Bravo, Marya Membreño, Francisco Mena and Fernando Cuautle complete the cast of this film, which is produced by Angélica Ramírez and Janeth Mora and photographed by Alejandro Chávez.
In addition to the Best Film award, the film won the Critics’ Award and Juan Ramón took the award for Best Actor.
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