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==''El Norte''== |
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Villalpando first role in ''El Norte'' meant a lot to him. He gave an interview to ''Lear Media'' about the film: what it meant to him and why the film was important. Villalpando said: |
Villalpando's first role in ''El Norte'' meant a lot to him. He gave an interview to ''Lear Media'' about the film: what it meant to him and why the film was important. Villalpando said: |
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:Fifteen years ago, the indigenous people in Guatemala were living a cruel extermination that forced them to flee toward Mexico and the United States. This exodus lasted a decade and half a million Guatemalans made the journey to America seeking for [[right of asylum|asylum]] and refuge...''El Norte'' became a powerful fighting element, grew an audience, searched audiences, and left the theatres to tell its truth.<ref>[http://www.learmedia.ca/product_info.php/products_id/799 Villalpando, David]. ''Lear Media,'' interview of Villalpando.</ref> |
:Fifteen years ago, the indigenous people in Guatemala were living a cruel extermination that forced them to flee toward Mexico and the United States. This exodus lasted a decade and half a million Guatemalans made the journey to America seeking for [[right of asylum|asylum]] and refuge...''El Norte'' became a powerful fighting element, grew an audience, searched audiences, and left the theatres to tell its truth.<ref>[http://www.learmedia.ca/product_info.php/products_id/799 Villalpando, David]. ''Lear Media,'' interview of Villalpando.</ref> |
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David Villalpando | |
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David Villalpando (born January 2, 1959 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actor. His break out role was in the film El Norte (1983).[1]
Since then he's had small roles in American films such as The Arrival, The Mask of Zorro, and the John Sayles film Men with Guns (1997).
He was also in an episode in the television series Acapulco H.E.A.T., and has done a lot of work in Mexican cinema.
El Norte
Villalpando's first role in El Norte meant a lot to him. He gave an interview to Lear Media about the film: what it meant to him and why the film was important. Villalpando said:
- Fifteen years ago, the indigenous people in Guatemala were living a cruel extermination that forced them to flee toward Mexico and the United States. This exodus lasted a decade and half a million Guatemalans made the journey to America seeking for asylum and refuge...El Norte became a powerful fighting element, grew an audience, searched audiences, and left the theatres to tell its truth.[2]
Footnotes
- ^ IMDb film data base.
- ^ Villalpando, David. Lear Media, interview of Villalpando.