Showing posts with label Latinos in Hollywood. Show all posts
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Saturday, September 14, 2024

The Hacienda of the Mexican Opera Singer & Hollywood Film Star José Mojica (1896-1974) in Santa Monica

By José Alberto Hermosillo

"La Finca de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe" is a four-lot estate in Santa Monica, California, near Malibu, that formerly belonged to the late José Mojica (1895-1974), a renowned Mexican actor, opera singer, and priest in Peru. This magical place is appraised at approximately $26 million. The expansive Spanish-style stucco residence, designed by Merril Baird, was constructed in 1929.

The La Senora Research Institute hosted a conference and a series of commemorative events to mark the second anniversary of José Mojica's birth. During these events, the public had exclusive access to the mansion, his biography and, most importantly, his movies.

José Mojica Movies:

One Mad Kiss (1930), Hollywood

When Love Laughs (Cuando el amor ríe) (1931), Hollywood

Hay que casar al príncipe (1931), Hollywood

Law of the Harem (La ley del harem) (1931), Hollywood

Mi último amor (1931), Hollywood

El caballero de la noche (1932), Hollywood

El precio de un beso (1933), Hollywood

The King of Gypsies (El rey de los gitanos) (1933), Hollywood

Melodía prohibida (1933), Hollywood

La cruz y la espada (1934), Hollywood

Un capitán de cosacos (1934), Hollywood

Love Frontiers (Las fronteras del amor) (1934), Hollywood

 

El Capitán aventurero (1938), México

La canción del milagro (1940), México

El Pórtico de la Gloria (1953), México

Yo pecador (1959), México

Seguiré tus pasos (1966), México

El pecado de una madre (1960), México

 

Melodías de América (1941), Argentina.


José Mojica Hacienda
José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.

José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.


José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.

José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.

José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.

José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.

José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.

José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.

José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.

José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.

José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.

José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.

José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.



José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.

José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.

José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.

José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.

José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.


José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.

José Mojica Hacienda, Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.

José Mojica Hacienda in Santa Monica. Photo by José Alberto Hermosillo.


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Friday, December 8, 2023

Eva Longoria's 'Flamin' Hot' Swept the Imagen Awards 2023

 By José Alberto Hermosillo 

"Flamin' Hot" won Best Picture, Best Director & Best Actor, Imagen Awards 2023. Photo: José Alberto Hermosillo. Copyright © Festival in LA, 2023
“Flamin’ Hot” won Best Picture, Best Director & Best Actor, Imagen Awards.
Photo: José Alberto Hermosillo. Copyright © Festival in LA, 2023

Sunday, December 3rd, 2023. Los Angeles, California. The Latino Star-Power flexed its muscles, recognizing the best of in movies and television of 2023. The Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Downtown was the iconic scenario for the Imagen Awards ceremony presented by The Imagen Foundation. The same historic ballroom of the hotel was the official site of the Oscars, which were celebrated from 1931 to 1942.
 
Year by year, it is more important to have Latino representation in the Hollywood industry. While Latinos represent one-third of ticket buyers at the box office, the Latinx presence in films and television is less than three percent. Hispanics became the nineteenth percent of the population in the United States, and those numbers are not reflected on the big screen.
 
On that joyous morning, Eva Longoria’s film “Flamin’ Hot” took home three of the top Imagen Awards, Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Jesse Garcia (“Quinceañera,” “Ambulance,” “Narcos, Mexico”).

 

Jesse Garcia wins Best Actor for “Flamin’ Hot.” Photo: José Alberto Hermosillo. Copyright © Festival in LA, 2023

Renowned journalist Maria Hinojosa took the Best Documentary award for “After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas.”


Maria Hinojosa - Best Documentary –After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics. Photo José Alberto Hermosillo FestivalinLA ©2023.

On the TV series section, Netflix won with the Mexican cops’ drama “Belascoarán P.I.” and tied in with “National Treasure: Edge of History.” 

In Comedy, “Acapulco” took Best Primetime Program, Best Actor Enrique Arrizon, and by the way, the winners forgot to mention the struggles the people of Acapulco are living through now due to the devastating Hurricane Otis back in October. We must be grateful and show solidarity with the people of the places we work as Mel Gibson went back to Veracruz a year after shooting “Apocalypto” and donated a million dollars for the reconstruction of the city destroyed by Hurricane Stan back in 2005.


Best Primetime Program – Comedy: Acapulco. Photo José Alberto Hermosillo, FestivalinLA, ©2023

The nominated films with Latinx presence range from independent projects to big box-office hits like “Avatar: The Way of Water,” with Zoe Saldaña, “Scream VI” with Jenna Ortega and Melisa Barrera, “Blue Beetle” with Xolo Marigueña (“Cobra Kai” & “Parenthood”) and Becky G (“Power Rangers” & “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”), “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” “Plane” with Daniela Pineda, “Mother” and “Shotgun Wedding” with Jennifer Lopez, and “Magic Mike, Last Dance” with Salma Hayek and Carmen Olivares.

 

Talking about inclusion, other remarkable films overlooked by the Imagen Awards or were not submitted for consideration were “A Million Milles Away” with Michael Peña, the biggest box-office hit in Mexican history “Radical” with Eugenio Derbez, and the independent Summer conservative blockbuster “The Sound of Freedom” directed by Alejandro Monteverde.


“Flamin’ Hot” won Best Picture, Best Director & Best Actor, Imagen Awards
Photo: José Alberto Hermosillo. Copyright © Festival in LA, 2023

The Sunday brunch provided by the Imagen Foundation in the company of so many Latin stars was a total success. The Speeches by the President and Founder Helen Hernandez, actor and producer Edward James Olmos, Eva Longoria, and Jesse Garcia were inspiring. 

During the Imagen Awards Ceremony, everyone talked about the power of giving a “Green Light” to all the dreams and stories to be told by the Latino community, and that will empower and provide more opportunities to the Latinos in Hollywood. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners.


The Winners of The Imagen Awards 2023

 

Best Feature Film: Flamin’ Hot 
Best Director – Feature Film: Eva Longoria, Flamin’ Hot
Best Actor – Feature Film: Jesse Garcia, Flamin’ Hot
Best Actress – Feature Film: Zoe Saldaña, Avatar: The Way of Water
Best Animated Feature Film: Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
Best Voice-Over Actor – Feature Film: 
Antonio Banderas, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish 
Best Music Composition for Film or Television: Gustavo Santaolalla, The Last of Us
Best Primetime Program – Drama – TIE: 
Belascoarán & 
National Treasure: Edge of History.
Best Primetime Program – Comedy: Acapulco
Best Primetime Program – Special or Movie: Dear… Selena Gomez
Best Director (Television): 
Guillermo Navarro, Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.
Best Actor – Drama (Television): Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us
Best Actress – Drama (Television): Kate Del Castillo, Volver a caer.
Best Actor – Comedy (Television): Enrique Arrizon, Acapulco.
Best Actress – Comedy (Television): Jenna Ortega, Wednesday.
Best Supporting Actor – Drama (Television): Benjamin Levy Aguilar, Chicago P.D.
Best Supporting Actress – Drama (Television): Aubrey Plaza, The White Lotus
Best Supporting Actor – Comedy (Television): Benjamin Bratt, Poker Face
Best Supporting Actress – Comedy (Television): Liza Colón-Zayas, The Bear
Best Young Actor (Television): Ava Louise Murchison, Jane
Best Voice-Over Actor (Television): Ruben Garfias, The Casagrandes.
Best Variety or Reality Show: The Reluctant Traveler With Eugene Levy.
Best Youth Programming: Alma’s Way.
Best Documentary – TIE: After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics, and Halftime.
Best Informational Program: ABC News, Uvalde 365: The Struggle to Understand.
Best Short/Student Film: The Ballad of Tita and the Machines.
Best Commercial Advertisement or Social Awareness Campaign
Mujeres Imparables 2023: Change The Game (“Cambia el juego”).

Jesse Garcia Wins the Imagen Award for Best Actors for Flamin’ Hot


Nominee Actors “This Fool” for Best Primetime Program Comedy Series. 
Photo: José Alberto Hermosillo. Copyright © Festival in LA, 2023

Film critic José Alberto Hermosillo, Nominee actress Julia Vera {“This Fool’) & her great-grandson Brolach.
.Copyright © Festival in LA, 2023

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Thursday, January 24, 2019

Emmanuel Lubezki Shoots the Vanity Fair "Diversity" Cover and Makes History in Hollywood in 2019

By José Alberto Hermosillo
Hollywood Vanity Fair Cover ©2019 Vanity Fair

It took decades for Vanity Fair to have a “Diversity” Cover like this and make history in Hollywood - a fanciful effort made up by the new faces of young and talented people working in Hollywood and around the World.

The work of the great Mexican cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki is magic, pure gold. Congratulations on this excellent work of art.

Hollywood Vanity Fair Cover ©2019 Vanity Fair

The diverse talent in front of the camera is integrated by:

Yalitza Aparicio, “Roma.”
Chadwick Boseman, “Black Panther.”
Timothée Chalamet, “Beautiful Boy.”
Elizabeth Debicki, “Widows.”
Henry Golding, “Crazy Rich Asians.”
Nicholas Hoult, “The Favorite.”
Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk.”
Rami Malek, “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Saoirse Ronan, “Mary Queen of Scots.”
Tessa Thompson, “Sorry to Bother You.”
John David Washington, “BlacKkKlansman.”

It is always fascinating to know a little more about the lives of the stars. 

 Starting with the new Superhero Chadwick Boseman from “Black Panther.” He was a terrific basketball player and graduated from Howard University in Washington D.C. Destiny got him close to Denzel Washington, who paid his tuition at the British American Dramatic Academy at Oxford University in London.

The star of “Roma,” Yalitza Aparicio, was a kindergarten teacher when she got the part while accompanying her pregnant sister to the auditions in her hometown in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico. Aparicio’s natural performance earned her a surprising Best Actress Oscar nomination.

The story of Henry Golding is fascinating as well. He was born in Betong, Sarawak, Malaysia, and went to Surrey, England, at age eight. He returned to Kuala Lumpur, where he started his acting career as a host of a top-notch travel TV show. Then he got cast to play this multi-millionaire in the box-office smash “Crazy Rich Asians.”

Often, Vanity Fair has photoshoots of models from different backgrounds. In this Hollywood historical issue, the fashion-forward magazine had a diverse group of Oscar-nominated actors and Golden Globe winners in front of the lenses of one of the best photographers in the World.

The 25th Hollywood Issue - Moving Pictures was photographed by three-time Oscar winner Emmanuel ‘Chivo’ Lubezki and styled by Samira Nasr.

For more on those shining stars, visit: 

The Hollywood Cover - Moving Pictures

The 2019 Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue Cover

 

Behind the Scenes of Vanity Fair’s 2019 Hollywood Issue Cover Shoot

Emmanuel Lubezki, director of photography. Eight times Oscar-nominee and three times Oscar-Winner, Best Cinematography. His outstanding work includes #Gravity #Birdman #TheRevenant. A Little Princess, Sleepy Hollow, A New World. Children of Men, The Tree of Life, Knight of Cups, Like Water for Chocolate, Ambar, Bandidos, Miroslava, Sólo con tu Pareja, Y tu mamá también, Meet Joe Black, A Walk in the Clouds, The Bird Cage,  Reality Bites, Alí, Burn After Reading. Things You Can Tell Just by Looking At Her, Great Expectations.
Film critic José Alberto Hermosillo ©2019 www.FestivalinLA.com
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