Filmmaker Juan Carlos Rulfo brings us the wonderful documentary In The Pit (En El Hoyo) about the countless Mexican workers labouring to construct the massive second story of the Periferico freeway in Mexico City filmed during March 2003 to December 2005. Focusing on a handful of the tireless workers who are no more than just regular everyday men we get to follow them as they work and talk about poverty, their colleagues, their personal lives and a belief that according to Mexican legend that for every bridge built the devil would ask for one soul so that the bridge never fell.
Among the whole host of nicknamed characters we are introduced to there are a host of characters that instantly grab your attention in the film, first is “Shorty” who has a calming and likable ‘live and let live’ attitude to his personal and working life while close friend and colleague “El...
Among the whole host of nicknamed characters we are introduced to there are a host of characters that instantly grab your attention in the film, first is “Shorty” who has a calming and likable ‘live and let live’ attitude to his personal and working life while close friend and colleague “El...
- 6/18/2010
- by Gary Phillips
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
MEXICO CITY -- Guillermo Del Toro's dark fantasy Pan's Labyrinth has been selected as Mexico's foreign-language submission for the 79th Annual Academy Awards, giving the film industry here a strong Oscar contender. Written, directed and produced by Del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth will hit U.S. theaters Dec. 29. Tequila Gang, Del Toro's Mexican production company, co-produced the picture with Spain's Estudios Picasso. Additionally, the Mexican Film Academy of Arts and Sciences has selected documentary En el Hoyo (In the Pit) as its foreign film entry for the 21st edition of Spain's Goya Awards.
- 9/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MEXICO CITY -- Guillermo Del Toro's dark fantasy Pan's Labyrinth has been selected as Mexico's foreign-language submission for the 79th Annual Academy Awards, giving the film industry here a strong Oscar contender. Written, directed and produced by Del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth will hit U.S. theaters Dec. 29. Tequila Gang, Del Toro's Mexican production company, co-produced the picture with Spain's Estudios Picasso. Additionally, the Mexican Film Academy of Arts and Sciences has selected documentary En el Hoyo (In the Pit) as its foreign film entry for the 21st edition of Spain's Goya Awards.
- 9/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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