Tigers Are Not Afraid

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

Los Angeles Premiere

Showtime:

Friday, October 13, 2017 - 2:00am

Run Time:

1 hour 23 mins

Country:

Mexico

Synopsis:

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.

Directed by:

Issa Lopez

Produced by:

Marco Polo Constandse, coproducer Tania Benitez

Executive Producer(s):

Carlos Taibo, Francisco González Compean

Written by:

Issa Lopez

Main Cast:

Paola Lara, Juan Ramón López, Ianis Guerrero, Rodrigo Cortes, Hanssel Casillas, Nery Arredondo, Tenoch Huerta Mejía.

About the Director

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.[1] 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 & M...read more

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