The Guadalajara Reporter

No dampened spirits at Film Fest

As the 27th Guadalajara Film Festival bore down on its close this week, Friday’s narco blockades threw some confusion on the event. Visitors wondered whether Saturday’s closing ceremony would go on as scheduled, with a few Friday night red carpet and party events suspended. However, when the Saturday sun broke, the festival went forward unabated.

The Hilton Hotel played host to the awards ceremony, where Kuno Becker won Best Actor for his starring role in “Espacio Interior” (Interior Space) in which he plays a man trapped in a cell. Everardo Gout took Best Director for his film, “Días de Gracia” (Days of Grace), but the big winner this year was the U.S./Mexican production “Mariachi Gringo,” which won Best Mexican Feature Film and provided the platform for Martha Higareda to grab the Best Actress award. The film, directed by Tom Gustafson and filmed in Guadalajara and Mexico City, follows an American (Shawn Ashmore) as he discovers and falls for the land of Mariachi culture, helped along toward this helpless end by a breathtaking señorita—an outlandish tale to be sure.

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