Yalitza Aparicio
J.A. Bayona’s ‘Society of the Snow’ Sweeps Platino Awards as Filmmaker Offers Support to Argentina
J.A. Bayona’s Netflix epic Society of the Snow swept Saturday night’s Platino Awards, picking up a total of six trophies including the top award of the night for best Ibero-American fiction film. Bayona’s film follows the tragic events that take place after Uruguayan Air Force flight 571, chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, […]
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Eugenio Derbez Tells Yalitza Aparicio About His Dramatic Turn in ‘Radical’: “You Always Have to Be Smiling, And That Makes You Carry a Sadness Inside”
In Radical, Mexican superstar Eugenio Derbez plays Sergio, a teacher in a neglected Mexican school who deploys unorthodox pedagogical methods, throwing the typical curriculum out the window despite skepticism from administrators, corruption from local officials and the life-threatening obstacles faced by his young charges. After winning the festival favorite award at Sundance a year ago, […]
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