Tigers Are Not Afraid
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BEST PICTURE BEST DIRECTOR – Issa López BEST ACTRESS – Paola Lara BEST ACTOR – Juan Ramón López BEST EDITING – Joaquim Marti Q&A moderated by Jace Anderson "...this is one terrific film, both tough and touching. Two minutes in, I was under its spell.", Stephen King
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We are in a Mexican city turned into a ghost town by the drug-war. Estrella is 11, and when her mother vanishes, she makes a wish: she wants her mother to come back. And mom does return...from the dead. Terrified, Estrella escapes and joins a rag-tag gang of other children orphaned by the violence, all escaping their own past. But she learns that in a city ruled by death, you can't simply leave the ghosts behind; they walk with you wherever you go.
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Issa
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Issa López is a Mexican writer and director. López has won several literature awards, including the National Novel Award granted by Mexico's Institute of Fine Arts and Literature....Read more
Issa López is a Mexican writer and director. López has won several literature awards, including the National Novel Award granted by Mexico's Institute of Fine Arts and Literature. In addition to her literary work, she penned multiple TV shows, some of them reaching the highest audience ratings in Mexican prime-time TV, and wrote the scripts for several film features, three of them produced in Mexico by the Major Hollywood Studios, and two of those directed by herself; Efectos Secundarios (Warner Bros., 2006) and Casi Divas (Sony Pictures, 2008). In 2015, López shot her third feature as a director, and tenth as a writer, Tigers Are Not Afraid. As of June 2016, she's finishing post-production of the movie, and starting pre-production of 'Moctezuma & Me', her fourth feature film as a director, 11th as a writer. Read less
