This past Tuesday, a group claiming to be local authorities assaulted and robbed crewmembers working on the set of Alfonso Cuarón’s latest production over permit issues. The untitled film is Cuarón’s first to be shot in Mexico since his 2001 drama “Y Tu Mamá También.” Cuarón was not on set at the time of the attack.
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In a statement from the production, Espectáculos Fílmicos El Coyúl says that the crew was working with “official permits from the Film Commission of Mexico City” and that the attack was “not a ‘simple fight’ like the authorities have reported.” He goes on to say that the response of the Cuahutémoc District was immediate and positive after they filed the complaint and that it is “alarming that union workers from the Cuahutémoc District will attack and assault...
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In a statement from the production, Espectáculos Fílmicos El Coyúl says that the crew was working with “official permits from the Film Commission of Mexico City” and that the attack was “not a ‘simple fight’ like the authorities have reported.” He goes on to say that the response of the Cuahutémoc District was immediate and positive after they filed the complaint and that it is “alarming that union workers from the Cuahutémoc District will attack and assault...
- 11/3/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Police showed up Tuesday on the Mexico City set of Alfonso Cuarón’s untitled period film after a group claiming to be local authorities assaulted and robbed members of the crew, according to a letter from the production obtained by Deadline. Cuarón was not on the set at the time. “While members of our production team were working at the location of José María Iglesias Street in the Tabacalera community with official permits from the Film Commission of Mexico City, they…...
- 11/3/2016
- Deadline
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