Producer Salma Hayek Pinault says her heartfelt family dramedy El Sabor de la Navidad as it tackles the issue of transgender acceptance in Mexican families reflects a changing and more progressive country and culture.
“Misunderstandings in families have to do with generational differences,” the Mexican-American star-turned-producer told The Hollywood Reporter ahead of a world premiere for director Alejandro Lozano’s Christmas family movie at the Toronto Film Festival on Wednesday evening. Hayek Pinault also marked her support for the SAG-AFTRA strikes by proudly wearing a T-shirt adorned with the actor union’s protest logo while at TIFF.
“It’s not only Spanish (language), but a Mexican film. And so we’re very grateful that we were able to bring it to Toronto and that the union was supportive of it, otherwise I would not have come, without permission,” she said as her film debuted at the Royal Alexandra Theatre.
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“Misunderstandings in families have to do with generational differences,” the Mexican-American star-turned-producer told The Hollywood Reporter ahead of a world premiere for director Alejandro Lozano’s Christmas family movie at the Toronto Film Festival on Wednesday evening. Hayek Pinault also marked her support for the SAG-AFTRA strikes by proudly wearing a T-shirt adorned with the actor union’s protest logo while at TIFF.
“It’s not only Spanish (language), but a Mexican film. And so we’re very grateful that we were able to bring it to Toronto and that the union was supportive of it, otherwise I would not have come, without permission,” she said as her film debuted at the Royal Alexandra Theatre.
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- 9/14/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s December in Mexico City in “El Sabor de la Navidad,” where fake Santas, queso relleno and karaoke machines are all just smoke and mirrors covering over the true meaning of Christmas. Helmed by Alejandro Lozano, this endearing Spanish-language Christmas film intertwines three separate stories of families and friends grappling between tradition and progression, trying to discern which is most important.
Ahead of the film’s global premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, producers Salma Hayek Pinault and Jose Tamez spoke with Variety about Ventanarosa, their production company, which is behind the film, creating films for Spanish-speaking audiences and their latest joint endeavor.
“We enjoy what we do, and we take pride in what we do,” Hayek Pinault says about the work at Ventanarosa. “The last project we did, ‘Santa Evita,’ I think we won everything, no, Pepe?” While maybe not everything, Ventanarosa’s 2022 Hulu original “Santa Evita,...
Ahead of the film’s global premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, producers Salma Hayek Pinault and Jose Tamez spoke with Variety about Ventanarosa, their production company, which is behind the film, creating films for Spanish-speaking audiences and their latest joint endeavor.
“We enjoy what we do, and we take pride in what we do,” Hayek Pinault says about the work at Ventanarosa. “The last project we did, ‘Santa Evita,’ I think we won everything, no, Pepe?” While maybe not everything, Ventanarosa’s 2022 Hulu original “Santa Evita,...
- 9/10/2023
- by Sophia Scorziello
- Variety Film + TV
The second TelevisaUnivision movie from Salma Hayek Pinault’s Ventanarosa Productions will get its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
El Sabor de la Navidad (working title A Merry Mexican Christmas) will bow Sept. 13 as part of TIFF’s special presentations program before becoming available on the Spanish-language streaming platform ViX in November.
In the tradition of many holiday classics, El Sabor de la Navidad will follow three storylines that inevitably converge in the third act. All set in Mexico City during Christmastime, the first story follows an estranged daughter seeking reconciliation with her family; the second spotlights two rival Santa Clauses in Alameda Central Park; and the third features a lonely chef who cooks Christmas dinners for other families catching feelings for her assistant.
The romantic comedy stars Mariana Treviño (A Man Called Otto, House of Flowers), Andrés Almeida (Y tu mamá también, Ana), Armando Hernández (Blood of My Blood,...
El Sabor de la Navidad (working title A Merry Mexican Christmas) will bow Sept. 13 as part of TIFF’s special presentations program before becoming available on the Spanish-language streaming platform ViX in November.
In the tradition of many holiday classics, El Sabor de la Navidad will follow three storylines that inevitably converge in the third act. All set in Mexico City during Christmastime, the first story follows an estranged daughter seeking reconciliation with her family; the second spotlights two rival Santa Clauses in Alameda Central Park; and the third features a lonely chef who cooks Christmas dinners for other families catching feelings for her assistant.
The romantic comedy stars Mariana Treviño (A Man Called Otto, House of Flowers), Andrés Almeida (Y tu mamá también, Ana), Armando Hernández (Blood of My Blood,...
- 8/10/2023
- by Rebecca Sun
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Back in December, we got our first look at Forum Expanded, a program of exhibitions, performances and other works that don't necessarily entail lowering the lights and peering straight ahead at the big white screen. So we already know that we'll be seeing new work by Luke Fowler, Harun Farocki and many others. The first of today's announcements from the Berlinale (February 9 through 19) fills in the details.
The addition, for example, of whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir (image above) by Eve Sussman/Rufus Corporation, "a film edited live in real time which shows a man under surveillance in a fictional East European city," solidifies the impression that Forum Expanded is a rough equivalent of Toronto's Future Projections program and Sundance's New Frontier since, by the time it rolls into Berlin, it'll already have been presented by both.
Other notable additions since December's announcement: Luc Moullet's "uncompleted project about two thieves (mother and daughter...
The addition, for example, of whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir (image above) by Eve Sussman/Rufus Corporation, "a film edited live in real time which shows a man under surveillance in a fictional East European city," solidifies the impression that Forum Expanded is a rough equivalent of Toronto's Future Projections program and Sundance's New Frontier since, by the time it rolls into Berlin, it'll already have been presented by both.
Other notable additions since December's announcement: Luc Moullet's "uncompleted project about two thieves (mother and daughter...
- 1/23/2012
- MUBI
BUENOS AIRES -- Filmmakers from Argentina, Mexico and Spain are teaming for the production of the supernatural thriller Boca de Santos starring two of the Spanish-speaking world's hottest stars.
Argentina's Pablo Echarri, fresh off the worldwide success of Telefe's telenovela Montecristo, will headline alongside sexy Spanish actress Elsa Pataky, a veteran of European cinema who last appeared in Snakes on a Plane.
Simon Andreu, Francisco Boira, Tania Esteban, Daniel Martinez, Ofelia Medina, Jose Sefami and Monica Dionee round out the international cast.
Mexico's Satori and Vertigo Films will team with Argentina's Cruz del Sur Cine for the shoot, slated to begin next month in Argentina's Patagonia region, before heading to Barcelona, Spain, and Jalisco, Mexico.
Mexican director Raul Ramon is making his big-screen debut with the project, working from a script penned by Pancho Rodriguez, a protege of Guillermo Del Toro.
The film is budgeted at $5 million and expected to be released in the second half of 2008. It will be the biggest international production the three countries have ever done together.
Argentina's Pablo Echarri, fresh off the worldwide success of Telefe's telenovela Montecristo, will headline alongside sexy Spanish actress Elsa Pataky, a veteran of European cinema who last appeared in Snakes on a Plane.
Simon Andreu, Francisco Boira, Tania Esteban, Daniel Martinez, Ofelia Medina, Jose Sefami and Monica Dionee round out the international cast.
Mexico's Satori and Vertigo Films will team with Argentina's Cruz del Sur Cine for the shoot, slated to begin next month in Argentina's Patagonia region, before heading to Barcelona, Spain, and Jalisco, Mexico.
Mexican director Raul Ramon is making his big-screen debut with the project, working from a script penned by Pancho Rodriguez, a protege of Guillermo Del Toro.
The film is budgeted at $5 million and expected to be released in the second half of 2008. It will be the biggest international production the three countries have ever done together.
- 7/11/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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