2004-2005 Mexican Film Production List
Information obtained from various sources. Corrections, updates,
additions welcome!
No start dates available unless noted below.
- El agricultor; Dir: ?; Cast: Mario Almada, Lina Santos,
Valentín Trujillo; to start January in Aguascalientes
- Al otro lado (Matatena Films) ; Dir: Gustavo Loza; Cast: Héctor
Suárez; shot in May in Michoacán. This is a 30-minute short
which is planned to be combined with Loza's "Silencio profundo" and a
third short film (not yet produced) and shown as a feature.
- Amapola (Altavista Films); Dir: Luis Mandoki; CAST: Daniel
Giménez Cacho, Diego Luna; to start Sept
- American Visa; Dir: Juan Carlos Valdivia; Cast: Demián
Bichir; Mexican-Bolivian coprod; to start in mid-2004
- El Ángel, la Muerte y el Cazador; Dir: Oscar
Blancarte; Cast: Plutarco Haza, Sherlyn, Alejandro
Parodi; Mex-Span-Colombian coproduction; announced in 2003 to start in
2004--shot?
- Los Buenrostro; Dir: Busi Cortés; Cast: Evangelina Elizondo,
Lumi Cavazos; start not set
- El Bulto para presidente; Dir: Gabriel Retes; Cast: Gabriel
Retes; announced to start in June but ?
- Café stress; DIR: Cristian González; CAST: Héctor
Soberón; shooting June 2004 in Jalisco
- El carnaval de Sodoma; Dir: Arturo Ripstein; cast and start date not
set
- Ciudad de perros (Jorge Aguirre); Dir: Alejandro Todd; Cast: Carmen
Salinas, Luis Felipe Tovar, Roberto Sosa; Shot in April in Super 16mm.
- Corazón marchito; Dir: Eduardo Lucatero; to start Feb
- El Cristo de plata; Dir: Ramiro Meléndez; Cast: Rafael
Inclán, Andrés García; Mex-Colombian co-prod; to
start shooting in Colombia, April 2004.
- La curva del olvido; DIR: Cristian
González; CAST: Hétor Soberón, Otto Sirgo; announced
summer 2004
- De ángeles, flores y fuentes; Dir: Rodolfo Guzmán,
Héctor Rodríguez, Francisco Rodríguez; Cast: Luis
Felipe Tovar, Patricia Llaca, Mónica Dione; to start in
April; digital video
- Diluvio; Dir: ?; Cast: Luis Felipe Tovar; shot in Monterrey (in 2003?)
- La diosa del mar (A. Ramos, H. Stiglitz, M. Ojeda,
M. Carreño); DIR: ?; CAST: Karla Barahona, Hugo Stiglitz, Manuel
Ojeda, Meche Carreño; start Oct 2004
- Dos auroras; Dir: Jaime
Humberto Hermosillo; CAST: María Rojo; digital video; in post-prod
Aug 2004
- El laberinto del fauno (Anhelo Prods-Tequila Gang); DIR: Guillermo del
Toro; Span-Mex coprod; to start Nov-Dec 2004 or Jan 05
- Lo que esconde detrás de la verdad; Dir: Jorge
Araujo; Cast: Emilio Echverría, Luis Fernando Peña, Luis
Felipe Tovar; set to start at the end of April
- La lotería; Dir: ?; Cast: Manuel Ojeda; to start January
- El lugar que llaman vida; Dir: Claudio Isaac; funded by FOPROCINE but
no start date listed
- El Malboro y el
cucú (Argos-Videocine-Cinemex-Est. Churubusco-Fidecine); Dir: Javier
Patrón; Cast: Demián Bichir, Rafael Inclán, Isela
Vega, Dolores Heredia, Ricardo Blume; Start: Feb 04.
- Malverde, el narco-santo [title not
verified]; Dir: Juan Carlos Blanco; Cast: Bruno Bichir
- The Man Across the Street (Anhelo); Dir: ?; Cast: Salma Hayek; start
not set (to be shot in Mexico, but in English)
- Maya, la primera gran historia (Escarabajo Prods.-Animex
2D) ; Dir: Ricardo Arnaiz; animated feature film, pre-production started
May 2004.
- Mezcal (IMCINE-gob. de Oaxaca-Malayerba Prods.); Dir: Ignacio
Ortiz; Cast: Ricardo Blume, Marina de Tavira, Isela Vega
; started June in Guanajuato; based on "Under the Volcano" by
Malcolm Lowry.
- Mi verdad (Juan Osorio); Dir: Alfonso Rosas Priego,
Rodrigo Vidal; Cast: Liz Vega, Ofelia Guilmaín, Raúl
Araiza; started July?
- La niña en la piedra; Dir: Maryse Sistach; funded by FOPROCINE
but no start date listed
- Nocturno chilango; Dir: Javier Patrón; started 1 Feb; same as
"El Malboro y el cucú"?
- Los pajarracos; CAST: Itatí Cantoral, Silvia Pasquel, Luis
Felipe Tovar; 16mm; to start Nov 2004
- Papá regresa a casa; Dir: Gabriel Retes; Cast: Jorge
Perugorría, Vanessa Bauche, Luis Felipe Tovar; to start in
July; Mexico-Spain-Costa Rica coproduction.
- Pistoleros famosos; start Fall 04?
- Princesas (Anhelo); Dir: ?; Cast: Fernando de León; start not
set (to be shot in Spain)
- Rosario Tijeras (M. Ehrenberg); Dir: Emilio
Maillé Iturbe; Cast: Flora Martínez, Manolo Cardona; 23
Feb start in Colombia, finished shooting at the end of
April. Mex-Colombia-Brazil-France co-production.
- Santos peregrinos (A. Hernández); Dir: Juan Carlos
Rodríguez; Cast: Carmen Salinas, Adal Ramones, Ernesto Gómez
Cruz, Isaura Espinosa, José Carlos Rodríguez; Started 23
February in Mexico City.
- Sin límite de tiempo (Malayerba) ; Dir: Alfonso
Herrera; Cast: Isela Vega, Margarita Sanz; to start in second half of
2004.
- Sólo Dios Sabe (FIDECINE-SICRONIA FILMS-LULU
PRODS-DEZENOVE-ANCINE); DIR: Carlos Bolado; CAST: Diego Luna, Alica
Braga; Mex-Brazil coprod to start July
- Tokio boogie (Anhelo); start
not set
- Tres (Fidecine-Videocine); Dir: Carlos Valdivia; started 9 May 2004.
- La última noche; Dir: Alejandro Gamboa; Cast: Irán
Castillo?, Mariana Ávila; Start: March 04.
- Ver, oir y callar (Bravo Films) ; Dir: Alberto Bravo
García; Cast: Luis
Felipe Tovar, Paola Núñez; 16 Feb start
- Las vueltas del ?(ctrillo); DIR: Felipe Cazals; CAST: Damián
Alcázar, Vanessa Bauche
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