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Crónicas (2004)
Country of Origin: Mexico/Ecuador
Year of Production: 2004
Running Times: 108 mins
Format: colour 35mm
Ratio:
Sound: DTS/Dolby Digital
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Cabezahueca/Tequila Gang/Producciones Anhelo
Executive in Charge of Production: Karla Moles
Executive Producer: Frida Torresblanco
Producers: Alfonso Cuarón, Isabel Dávalos, Bertha Navarro,
Guillermo del Toro, Jorge Vergara
Line Producers: Carolina Fox, Lisandra Rivera
Assistant Production Manager: Paola Herrera
Production Coordinator: Gabriela Calvache
Production Coordinator (Los Angeles): Mandy Goldberg
SCRIPT
Script: Sebastián Cordero
DIRECTION
Director: Sebastián Cordero
1st Assistant Directors: Claudio Reiter, Felipe Teran
2nd Assistant Director: Mauricio Samaniego
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Enrique Chediak
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editors: Luis Carballar, Ivan Mora
Post Production Consultant: Joe Fineman
MUSIC
Music: Antonio Pinto
Music Supervisor: Annette Fradera
SOUND
Sound Designer: Martín Hernández
Sound Mixer: Santiago Núñez
Boom Operator: Pedro Mejía
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Jaime Baksht
Supervising Sound Editor: Martín Hernández
Sound Editor: Alejandro Quevedo
1st Assistant Sound Editor: Sergio Diaz
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Key Make Up: Regina Reyes
Make Up: Lucy Da Silva
Costume Designer: Monica Ruiz-Ziegler
Assistant Costume Designer: Natalie Arango
VISUAL EFFECTS
Title Designer: Frederik Bois
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Directors: Eugenio Caballero, Roberto Frisone
Sets: Lutgardo Vera
Decorator: Barbara Enriquez
OTHER CREW
Production Assistant: Christian Hidalgo
Assistant to Frida Torresblanco: Mandy Goldberg
LOCATIONS
Locations: Ecuador
Location Manager: Juan Pablo Rovayo
Assistant Location Manager: Arturo Yepez
STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Julian Bucio
CASTING
Casting: Mauricio Samaniego
CAST
John Leguizamo (Manolo Bonilla)
Leonor Watling (Marisa Iturralde)
Damián Alcázar (Vinicio Cepeda)
José María Yazpik (Ivan Suarez)
Camilo Luzuriaga (Capitan Bolivar Rojas)
Gloria Leiton (Esperanza)
Luiggi Pulla (Robert)
Henry Layana (Don Lucho)
Hugo Idrovo (Lic. Orestes Zambrano)
Tamara Navas (Dona Etelvina)
Alfred Molina (Victor Hugo Puente)
PLOT SUMMARY
A Miami news reporter travels to a small village in Ecuador in search
of a serial killer who has been preying on local children. But he soon
finds that his ruthless, selfish ways are going to cause even greater
tragedy for the village.
AVAILABILITY
Netherlands
Theatrical Distributors: Paradiso Entertainment
USA
Theatrical Distributors: Palm Pictures
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Netherlands
Rating: 12
USA
Rating: R (for violence, a scene of sexuality, and language)
AWARDS
2004
San Sebastián International Film Festival, Spain
Horizons Award - Special Mention (Damián Alcázar)
- winner
2005
Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival, Mexico
Mayahuel Award: Best Film - Ibero-American Jury (Sebastián
Cordero) - winner
Sundance Film Festival, USA
Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema - Dramatic (Sebastián Cordero)
- nominated
TIMELINE
2003
July
Day Unknown: Ecuador - filming begins
October
Day Unknown: Mexico - filming ends
2004
May
16: France - show at the Cannes Film Festival
September
13: Canada - shown at the Toronto Film Festival
2005
January
Day Unknown: USA - shown at the Sundance Film Festival
April
22: USA - shown at the Indianapolis International Film Festival
July
8: USA - theatrical release
30: Germany - shown at the München Fantasy Filmfest
August
23: Germany - shown at the Hamburg Fantasy Filmfest
September
15: Greece - shown at the Athens Film Festival
19: Finland - shown at the Helsinki International Film Festival
October
6: Netherlands, Portugal - theatrical release
13: Greece - theatrical release
2006
March
1: Belgium - theatrical release
POSTER TAGS
If It's On TV, It Must Be The Truth.
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Chronicles - English language title
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Entertainment Weekly no.830 (22 July 2005) p.54 (USA)
review (Cronicas: John Leguizamo is a tabloid reporter chasing a killer
story by Owen Gleiberman)
NEWSPAPERS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution vol.57 no.238 (26
August 2005) p.h3 (USA)
review (A cat-and-mouse game between reporter, killer by Eleanor Ringel
Gillespie)
The Washington Post vol.128 no. 278 (9 September 2005)
p.37 (USA)
review (A Mediocre Media Circus by Ann Hornaday)
KEYWORDS
children, lynchings, the media, reporters, serial killers, serial rapists,
sex
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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