3 directors fuel Latin film renaissance – Cuaron, del Toro, and Inarritu are key parts of Mexican resurgence

“This is a story of three films and three friends and one country. The country is Mexico, and the films are some of the most assured and powerful of the past year: Babel, Pan’s Labyrinth, and Children of Men.

As for the friends, read on.

The Freak from Guadalajara ”” as Guillermo del Toro had become known around the office ”” was back. This was 1987, Mexico City. Alfonso Cuaron was an assistant director for Mexican television, shooting episodes for a Mexican Twilight Zone. “We would call it the Toilet Zone,” he remembers. “We didn’t have the budget for anything more than prosthetic make-up effects.” Cuaron, however, was becoming quietly admired, and del Toro ”” the aforementioned Freak, himself with a modest reputation as a filmmaker and make-up guy ”” wanted them to meet.”

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