Gregory Nava
Nascimento : 1949-04-10, San Diego, California, USA
História
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Gregory Nava (born April 10, 1949 in San Diego, California) is a film director, producer and screenplay writer, of Mexican and Basque heritage.
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Self - Filmmaker
O crítico de cinema Roger Ebert foi um dos nomes mais conhecidos de seu ofício. Vencedor do prêmio Pulitzer, era um rosto popular devido a seu longevo programa de televisão e à criação dos “thumbs up” para classificar um bom filme. Este documentário mostra os últimos meses de vida de Ebert, ao lado de sua esposa Chaz e de sua família, com seu espírito batalhador e seu bom humor, na luta contra um câncer que o impediu de falar.
Producer
Lauren, uma jornalista ambiciosa de Chicago, é enviada para cobrir os estupros seguidos de morte que vêm ocorrendo na fronteira entre os EUA e o México. Chegando lá, com a ajuda de um jornalista local, descobre que esses crimes são apenas a ponta do iceberg de uma trama muito mais complexa do que se poderia imaginar envolvendo politícos e grandes empresários locais. Uma história real que chocou a América, finalmente numa surpreendente visão cinematográfica.
Screenplay
Lauren, uma jornalista ambiciosa de Chicago, é enviada para cobrir os estupros seguidos de morte que vêm ocorrendo na fronteira entre os EUA e o México. Chegando lá, com a ajuda de um jornalista local, descobre que esses crimes são apenas a ponta do iceberg de uma trama muito mais complexa do que se poderia imaginar envolvendo politícos e grandes empresários locais. Uma história real que chocou a América, finalmente numa surpreendente visão cinematográfica.
Director
Lauren, uma jornalista ambiciosa de Chicago, é enviada para cobrir os estupros seguidos de morte que vêm ocorrendo na fronteira entre os EUA e o México. Chegando lá, com a ajuda de um jornalista local, descobre que esses crimes são apenas a ponta do iceberg de uma trama muito mais complexa do que se poderia imaginar envolvendo politícos e grandes empresários locais. Uma história real que chocou a América, finalmente numa surpreendente visão cinematográfica.
Screenplay
Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) foi um dos principais nomes da história artística do México. Conceituada e aclamada como pintora, ele teve um agitado casamento aberto com Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), seu companheiro também nas artes, e ainda um controverso caso com o político Leon Trostky (Geoffrey Rush), além de várias outras mulheres.
Producer
Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major subjects of their choosing. In the last of the six films, "The American Tapestry," filmmaker Gregory Nava takes viewers on an uplifting and challenging journey through the memoirs of five immigrant families, each one on a quest for its own American Dream. Beautifully interweaving accounts from several generations, Nava composes an astonishing tapestry of personal triumphs and tragedies, as each story of courage unfolds. The American Dream is an elusive thing, and the lives of the people in Nava's film are both triumphant and tragic, teeming with optimism and sometimes despair. They expose the finest and worst in America as well as what we feel most magnificent and dreadful. They are part of the many contrasting threads that make up the American tapestry — a complex portrait of a nation at the turn of the millennium.
Director
Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major subjects of their choosing. In the last of the six films, "The American Tapestry," filmmaker Gregory Nava takes viewers on an uplifting and challenging journey through the memoirs of five immigrant families, each one on a quest for its own American Dream. Beautifully interweaving accounts from several generations, Nava composes an astonishing tapestry of personal triumphs and tragedies, as each story of courage unfolds. The American Dream is an elusive thing, and the lives of the people in Nava's film are both triumphant and tragic, teeming with optimism and sometimes despair. They expose the finest and worst in America as well as what we feel most magnificent and dreadful. They are part of the many contrasting threads that make up the American tapestry — a complex portrait of a nation at the turn of the millennium.
Director
In the mid-80s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager, Morris Levy. One is an L.A. singer, formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philly; one teaches school in a small Georgia town. Each claims to be the widow of long-dead doo-wop singer-songwriter Frankie Lyman, and each wants years of royalties due to his estate, money Levy has never shared. During an ensuing civil trial, flashbacks tell the story of each one's life with Lyman, a boyish, high-pitched, dynamic performer, lost to heroin. Slowly, the three wives establish their own bond.
Screenplay
Selena Quintanilla nasce em um família de origem mexicana no Texas. Seu pai percebe o talento da filha e começam a fazer pequenas apresentações juntos. Ela alcança o sucesso e se apaixona pelo guitarrista Chris Perez, o que deixa o pai irado. Para conquistar um público maior, Selena começa a gravar um álbum em inglês que, tragicamente, nunca finaliza.
Director
Selena Quintanilla nasce em um família de origem mexicana no Texas. Seu pai percebe o talento da filha e começam a fazer pequenas apresentações juntos. Ela alcança o sucesso e se apaixona pelo guitarrista Chris Perez, o que deixa o pai irado. Para conquistar um público maior, Selena começa a gravar um álbum em inglês que, tragicamente, nunca finaliza.
Writer
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930s. They establish their family in East L.A., and their children Chucho, Paco, Memo, Irene, Toni, and Jimmy deal with youth culture and the L.A. police in the '50s. As the second generation become adults in the '60s, the focus shifts to Jimmy, his marriage to Isabel (a Salvadorian refugee), their son, and Jimmy's journey to becoming a responsible parent.
Director
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930s. They establish their family in East L.A., and their children Chucho, Paco, Memo, Irene, Toni, and Jimmy deal with youth culture and the L.A. police in the '50s. As the second generation become adults in the '60s, the focus shifts to Jimmy, his marriage to Isabel (a Salvadorian refugee), their son, and Jimmy's journey to becoming a responsible parent.
Writer
World War II provides the setting for a melodramatic tale of love and revenge.
Director
World War II provides the setting for a melodramatic tale of love and revenge.
Writer
Dois irmãos, Enrique e Rosa Xuncax, escapam com vida do massacre de sua tribo na Guatemala e decidem fugir para os Estados Unidos. Seu destino é Los Angeles, onde vão tentar viver como cidadãos normais. Mas eles terão de lidar com a dura condição de estrangeiros ilegais.
Director
Dois irmãos, Enrique e Rosa Xuncax, escapam com vida do massacre de sua tribo na Guatemala e decidem fugir para os Estados Unidos. Seu destino é Los Angeles, onde vão tentar viver como cidadãos normais. Mas eles terão de lidar com a dura condição de estrangeiros ilegais.
Writer
In the turn of the century South, a woman feels unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood and has an affair with a younger man. Later, the woman leaves her family and tries to start a new life alone.
Cinematography
This ghost story, set at the turn of the century, centers on the plight of elderly dowager Marianna, who is tormented by the alleged specter of a young man roaming the corridors of her mansion. After spotting a face in an old photograph that seems to match the old woman's description of the "visitor", Marianna's sister decides to check things out and see if any of this is for real.
Editor
In medieval Spain, an young, traveling philosopher tragically falls in love with his pupil, when he is hired by an uneducated Lord to tutor his beautiful wife.
Cinematography
In medieval Spain, an young, traveling philosopher tragically falls in love with his pupil, when he is hired by an uneducated Lord to tutor his beautiful wife.
Writer
In medieval Spain, an young, traveling philosopher tragically falls in love with his pupil, when he is hired by an uneducated Lord to tutor his beautiful wife.
Director
In medieval Spain, an young, traveling philosopher tragically falls in love with his pupil, when he is hired by an uneducated Lord to tutor his beautiful wife.
Director
Director Gregory Nava's award-winning student film.