THE MEXICAN FILM BULLETIN Volume 21 Number 3 (May-June 2015) The Mexican Film Bulletin Volume 21 Number 3 May-June 2015 2015 Ariel Awards Best Actress th Ilse Salas / Güeros The 57 Ariel Awards ceremony was held on 27 May Karina Gidi / La guerra de Manuela Jankovic 2015 at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Adriana Paz / La tirisia Blanca Guerra, president of the Academic Mexicana de Cassandra Ciangherotti / Las horas contigo Ciencias y Artes Cinematográficas, spoke in favour of Irene Azuela / Las oscuras primaveras more government Best Co-Starring Actress support for Mima Vukovic / La guerra de Manuela Jankovic the Mexican Mercedes Hernández / La tirisia film industry. Isela Vega / Las horas contigo Cecilia Suárez / Las oscuras primaveras There were Margarita Sanz / Las oscuras primaveras homages to three Best Co-Starring Actor writers— Luis Alberti / Carmín tropical each with Alonso Echánove / Cuatro lunas connections to Mexican cinema--who passed away in Álvaro Guerrero / Eddie Reynolds y los Ángeles de acero 2014: Gabriel García Márquez, Vicente Leñero, and José Carlos Bardem / González Emilio Pacheco. Noé Hernández / La tirisia There was no overwhelming winner of the evening, although Güeros , a comedy-drama about young people Best Photography in Mexico City-- shot in black-and-white and 4:3 aspect Alejandro Cantú / Carmín tropical ratio--won 5 prizes including Best Film and Best Damián García / Güeros Carlos Hidalgo / Guten Tag, Ramón Direction. Other films which took home multiple Arieles César Gutiérrez / La tirisia included La tirisia , Obediencia perfecta, Las oscuras Tonatiuh Martínez / Las oscuras primaveras primaveras, Cantinflas, and Visitantes . Career achievement Arieles de Oro were presented to Best Adapted Screenplay producer Bertha Navarro and special effects supervisor Mauricio Walerstein, Claudia Nazoa, Federico Reyes Heroles / Miguel Vázquez. Canon (Fidelidad al límite) Best Film José Buil / La fórmula del doctor Funes Carmín tropical Ernesto Alcocer, Luis Urquiza / Obediencia perfecta Güeros Guten Tag, Ramón Best Original Screenplay La dictadura perfecta Rigoberto Perezcano / Carmín tropical Las oscuras primaveras Fernando del Razo, Christian Díaz / González Alonso Ruizpalacios, Gibrán Portela / Güeros Best Director Jorge Ramírez-Suárez / Guten Tag, Ramón Rigoberto Perezcano / Carmín tropical Luis Estrada, Jaime Sampietro / La dictadura perfecta Alonso Ruizpalacios / Güeros Jorge Ramírez-Suárez / Guten Tag, Ramón Best Original Music Luis Estrada / La dictadura perfecta Luca Ortega / Carmín tropical Ernesto Contreras / Las oscuras primaveras Mario Lavista / Eco de la montaña Tomás Barreiro / Güeros Best Actor Emmanuel del Real, Renato del Real, Ramiro del Real / Las Óscar Jaenada / Cantinflas oscuras primaveras Harold Torres / González Kenji Kishi Leopo / Somos Mari Pepa Tenoch Huerta / Güeros Kristyan Ferrer / Guten Tag, Ramón Best Production Design Juan Manuel Bernal / Obediencia perfecta Christopher Lagunes / Cantinflas Sandra Cabriada / Güeros Salvador Parra / La dictadura perfecta 1 THE MEXICAN FILM BULLETIN Volume 21 Number 3 (May-June 2015) Antonio Muñohierro, Mariana Fernández / La guerra de Santiago Núñez, Pablo Lach, Hugo de la Cerda / La dictadura Manuela Jankovic perfecta Julieta Álvarez / Obediencia perfecta Enrique Ojeda, Enrique Greiner / Las oscuras primaveras Best Film Editing Best Costume Design Miguel Schverdfinger / Carmín tropical Gabriela Fernández / Cantinflas Yibrán Asuad, Ana García / Güeros Laura García de la Mora / Carmín tropical Jorge Ramírez-Suárez, Sonia Sánchez, Sam Baixauli / Guten Gabriela Fernández / Eddie Reynolds y los Ángeles de acero Tag, Ramón Mariestela Fernández / La dictadura perfecta Mariana Rodríguez / La dictadura perfecta Josefina Echeverría / Obediencia perfecta Valentina Leduc / Las oscuras primaveras Best Makeup Maripaz Robles / Cantinflas Best Animated Short Maripaz Robles / Carmín tropical El color de mis alas / Miguel Anaya Felipe Salazar / Eddie Reynolds y los Ángeles de acero El modelo de Pickman / Pablo Ángeles Zuman Roberto Ortíz, Felipe Salazar, Elena López / El crimen del El trompetista / Raúl Alejandro Morales Cácaro Gumaro Tierra seca / Ricardo Torres Felipe Salazar / La dictadura perfecta Tlacuache de maguey / Miguel Anaya Best Special Effects Best Documentary Short Ricardo Arvizu, Willebaldo Bucio / El crimen del Cácaro El palacio / Nicolás Pereda Gumaro El penacho de Moctezuma. Plumaria del México antiguo / Alejandro Vázquez / La dictadura perfecta Jaime Kuri Nury Álamo, Karina Rodríguez, Alfonso Moreno / La fórmula Jefe del desierto / Alejandro Ramírez del doctor Funes Perreus / Kalien Delgado Adrián Durán / Más negro que la noche Ulterior / Sabrina Muhate Ricardo Arvizu / Visitantes Best Fictional Short Best Visual Effects 400 maletas / Fernanda Valadez Marco Rodríguez / Cantinflas Ella / Ximena Urrutia Fabián García, Cyntia Navarro, Paula Siqueira / Eddie La carta / María de los Ángeles Cruz Reynolds y los Ángeles de acero Nunca regreses / Leonardo Díaz Paula Siqueira, Michael Hoffmann, Raúl Prado, Cyntia Ramona / Giovanna Zacarías Navarro, Charlie Iturriaga / El crimen del Cácaro Gumaro Adriana Arriaga / La dictadura perfecta Best Documentary Feature Charlie Iturriaga / Visitantes Bering. Equilibrio y resistencia / Lourdes Grobet Eco de la montaña / Nicolás Echevarría Best First Work H2Omx / José Cohen, Lorenzo Hagerman González / Christian Díaz Los años de fierro / Santiago Esteinou Güeros / Alonso Ruizpalacios Navajazo / Ricardo Silva Las horas contigo / Catalina Aguilar Los bañistas / Max Zunino Best Iberoamerican Film Obediencia perfecta / Luis Urquiza Conducta (Cuba) / Ernesto Daranas La isla mínima (España) / Alberto Rodríguez Best New Actress Mr. Kaplan (Uruguay) / Álvaro Brechner Vico Escorcia / Eddie Reynolds y los Ángeles de acero Pelo malo (Venezuela) / Mariana Rondon Gabriela Cartol / La tirisia Relatos salvajes (Argentina) / Damián Szifron Magda Ortiz / La tirisia Nora Isabel Huerta / Seguir viviendo Ariel de Oro Petra Iñiguez / Somos Mari Pepa Bertha Navarro Miguel Vázquez Best New Actor Sebastián Aguirre / Güeros Daniel Carrera / La fórmula del doctor Funes Hayden Meyenberg / Las oscuras primaveras Sebastián Aguirre / Obediencia perfecta María Elena Velasco “La India Alejandro Gallardo / Somos Mari Pepa Maria” 1940-2015 Best Sound Actress, producer, writer and director María Elena Pablo Tamez, Ruy García, Branka Mrkic / Carmín tropical Velasco died in Mexico City on 1 May 2015; she was 74 Axel Muñoz, José Miguel Enríquez, Pablo Fernández, Víctor years old. Although no cause of death was stated, she Manuel Barragán / González had been diagnosed with stomach cancer a number of Isabel Muñoz, Pedro González, Gabriel Reyna, Kiyoshi years earlier. Osawa, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc / Güeros María Elena Velasco Fragoso was born in Puebla in December 1940. She began working as a dancer and 2 THE MEXICAN FILM BULLETIN Volume 21 Number 3 (May-June 2015) comedic actress in Mexico City venues such as the Dialog Rec : Consuelo Jaramillo; Asst Dir : Fernando Tivoli, Follies, Lírico, and Blanquita variety theatres. Durán; Makeup : Tony Ramírez; Union : STIC Her film and television career began in the early 1960s Cast: María Elena Velasco "La India María" [María and she eventually Elena Velasco] ( María ), Eleazar García "Chelelo" ( don developed her signature Braulio ), Fernando Luján ( Raúl ), Emma Roldán ( doña “India María” character. Paz ), Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo ( don Marciano ), Gloria Tonta, tonta pero no tanto Mayo ( Laura ), Wally Barrón ( "Frankie" aka Insp. (1971) was her first Maldonado ), Carlos Bravo Fernández "Carl-Hillos" starring role, and 16 more (lawyer ), José Cibrián Jr. ( gringo tourist ), Antonio “India María” vehicles Bravo ( doctor ), Alfonso Zayas ( traffic cop ), Mimí ( dog ) followed, concluding with [the credits indicate the dog was owned by Chelelo], La hija de Moctezuma René Cardona III (2011, released in 2014). Velasco’s character— “María Nicolasa Cruz”-- stereotyped and naive but immensely likeable and always depicted as morally superior to those around her, made her one of the major box-office attractions of the 1970s and 1980s. In addition to her feature films, La India María also appeared on the stage, in foto-comics and in a 1990s television series (“Ay María, que puntería!”). Fernando Cortés directed the first seven India María vehicles, but after his departure Velasco began to take on additional Notes : this film has been a sore spot with me for a responsibilities in the number of years, since my Mexican Filmography book production of her own contained a major error in the description (indicating the movies. She co-directed animal that María cares for is a cat, rather than a dog). It Okey Mister Pancho wasn't my fault, I'd never seen El miedo no anda en (1979) with Gilberto burro and I was misled by a secondary source (the Martínez Solares, then usually reliable Historia documental del cine mexicano ), directed or co-directed 4 but it still rankled. additional features, also Many years later, I have finally watched the film working on the scripts of and—trying to be objective—consider it one of the lesser all of her films from 1979 onward. She produced many India María vehicles (although it was fantastically of her later features, as well as Huapango (2001), a non- successful at the box-office). Although the direction is India María movie in which she had a supporting role weak and the script is repetitive and predictable, one of and received an Ariel for Best Adapted Screenplay