Carlos Carrera
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18 August 1962
Carlos Carrera | |
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| Born | Luis Carlos Carrera González 18 August 1962 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Alma mater | Ibero-American University Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica |
| Occupations | Director, screenwriter, producer, animator |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Honours | Short Film Palme d'Or Ariel Award |
Carlos Carrera (born 18 August 1962) is a Mexican film director and screenwriter.
His debut feature from 1991, La mujer de Benjamín, earned him the Ariel Award for Best First Feature.[1] In 1994 at the Cannes film festival he won the Palme d’Or in the Short film category for El héroe.[2]
In 2002, under advise from Alfredo Ripstein, Carrera directed El crimen del Padre Amaro, about the romantic relationship between a catholic priest and a woman. The film was an adaptation of the novel by José María Eça de Queiroz with a screenplay by playwright Vicente Leñero, starring Gael García Bernal and Ana Claudia Talancón. When it was released, the film caused a controversy on the part of Roman Catholic groups in Mexico who tried to stop the film from being screened.[3] The film was a success at the box office, both in Mexico and internationally.[4] It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 75th Academy Awards.[5] It was also nominated to 13 Ariel awards, winning 9 of them.[6]
In 2009, he directed Backyard about the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez, which won a silver plaque at the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival.[7] The film was nominated for 9 Ariel awards, winning 5 of them.[8]
