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Is Ben prepared for what's coming his way in the first season of the Coyote TV show on CBS All Access? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Coyote is cancelled or renewed for season two. CBS All Access and other streaming platforms, however, collect their own data. If you've been watching this TV series, we'd love to know how you feel about the first season episodes of Coyote here.

A CBS All Access drama series, the Coyote TV show stars Michael Chiklis, Adriana Paz, Kristyan Ferrer, Octavio Pisano, Cynthia Kaye McWilliams and Julio Cedillo with Mark Feuerstein, Kelli Williams, Daniel Mora, Emy Mena, George Pullar, Amy Forsyth, Ross Phillips, Romina D'Ugo, Bobby Daniel Rodriguez, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, Jose Pablo Cantillo and Drew Powell in recurring roles.

Network: CBS All Access

Episodes: Ongoing (hour)

Seasons: Ongoing

TV show dates: January 7, 2021 -- present

Series status: Has not been cancelled

Performers include: Michael Chiklis, Adriana Paz, Kristyan Ferrer, Octavio Pisano, Cynthia Kaye McWilliams and Julio Cedillo with Mark Feuerstein, Kelli Williams, Daniel Mora, Emy Mena, George Pullar, Amy Forsyth, Ross Phillips, Romina D'Ugo, Bobby Daniel Rodriguez, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, Jose Pablo Cantillo and Drew Powell in recurring roles.

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A drama series, the Coyote TV show tells the story of Ben Clemens (Chiklis). After 32 years as a border patrol agent, he's forced to work for the very people he spent his career trying to keep out of America.

Now exposed to life on the other side of...

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Streaming on the CBS All Access subscription service, the Coyote TV show stars Michael Chiklis, Adriana Paz, Kristyan Ferrer, Octavio Pisano, Cynthia Kaye McWilliams and Julio Cedillo with Mark Feuerstein, Kelli Williams, Daniel Mora, Emy Mena, George Pullar, Amy Forsyth, Ross Phillips, Romina D'Ugo, Bobby Daniel Rodriguez, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, Jose Pablo Cantillo and Drew Powell in recurring roles. The series tells the story of Ben Clemens (Chiklis). After 32...

Another scriped series is officially on the move.

CBS All Access today announced that it has acquired the rights to Coyote, which was initially in the works at Paramound Network.

The streamer today released the official trailer for the series, and announced all six episodes of the scripted drama series, starring Emmy® Award-winner Michael Chiklis, Juan Pablo Raba, and Adriana Paz, will be available to stream exclusively on the service beginning Thursday, Jan. 7.

Coyote is the story of Ben Clemens (Chiklis), who after 32 years as a border patrol agent is forced to work for the very people he spent his career trying to keep out of America.

Now exposed to life on the other side of the wall, Ben will start to question his black and white views of the world, challenging his ideology and his loyalties.

In addition to Michael Chiklis and Juan Pablo Raba, who plays Juan Diego “El Catrin” Zamora,...

Michael Chiklis drama “Coyote” is moving from Paramount Network to CBS All Access, TheWrap has confirmed.

The six-episode series will premiere on the streaming service, which is set to be rebranded as Paramount+ on Jan. 7, 2021. It was first ordered at ViacomCBS-owned cable channel Paramount Network, which will become the Paramount Movie Network next year, as it shifts focus away from series television (with the exception of “Yellowstone”).

“Coyote” follows Ben Clemens (Chiklis), who after 32 years as a border patrol agent is forced to work for the very people he spent his career trying to keep out of America. Now exposed to life on the other side of the wall, Ben will start to question his black and white views of the world, challenging his ideology and his loyalties.

Along with Chiklis, the series stars Juan Pablo Raba, who plays Juan Diego “El Catrin” Zamora, the head of a small family cartel in Mexico,...

Another series is moving away from Paramount Network.

The Michael Chiklis drama “Coyote” will now debut on CBS All Access rather than the cable channel which is shifting away from original shows towards TV movies and miniseries, as Variety reported exclusively.

News of the “Coyote” move comes almost a year-and-a-half after it was ordered to series at Paramount Network. All six episodes of the show will now be available to stream from Jan. 7.

In “Coyote,” Chiklis stars as Ben Clemens who, after 32 years as a border patrol agent, is forced to work for the very people he spent his career trying to keep out of America. Now exposed to life on the other side of the wall, Ben will start to question his black and white views of the world, challenging his ideology and his loyalties.

In addition to Chiklis, the series stars Juan Pablo Raba as Juan Diego “El Catrin” Zamora,...

In today’s TV news roundup, Ali Wong gets two new Netflix comedy specials and Bet releases the first look at Lena Waithe’s “Twenties” series.

Casting

Michael Beach (“ER”), Anne-Marie Johnson (“For The People”) and Kellee Stewart (“Guess Who”) have been cast in Ava DuVernay’s romantic anthology series, “Cherish The Day.” They join Xosha Roquemore, Alano Miller and Emmy-award winner Cicely Tyson. Also, Blitz Bazawule, Aurora Guerrero (“13 Reasons Why”) and Deborah Kampmeier (“Queen Sugar”) join Tanya Hamilton (“Vampire Diaries”) as directors.

Joel McHale will return to host the 2020 second season of ABC’s “Card Sharks,” a competition series with two players facing off in a head-to-head elimination race. McHale is repped by UTA and Ziffren Brittenham Llp. Scott St. John and Jennifer Mullin executive produce “Card Sharks.”

Juan Pablo Raba (“Narcos”), Adriana Paz, Kristyan Ferrer, Octavio Pisano, Cynthia Kaye McWilliams (“Nashville”) and Julio Cedillo (“Sicario”) have been...

Adriana Paz (The Empty Hours), Kristyan Ferrer, Octavio Pisano, Cynthia Kaye McWilliams and Julio Cedillo are set as series regulars opposite Michael Chiklis and Juan Pablo Raba in Coyote, Paramount Network’s one-hour scripted drama series from Emmy-winning executive producer and director Michelle MacLaren, Dark Horse Entertainment and Sony Pictures TV. It’s slated to premiere in 2020.

Written by David Graziano (American Gods), Michael Carnes and Josh Gilbert (Mr. Woodcock), Coyote is the story of Ben Clemens (Chiklis), who, after 32 years as a border patrol agent, is forced to work for the very people he spent his career trying to keep out of America. Now exposed to life on the other side of the wall, Ben will start to question his black-and-white views of the world, challenging his ideology and his loyalties.

In addition to their first and second waves of programming that include In the Tall Grass, Knives Out, and Parasite, Fantastic Fest has announced their final wave of programming, giving attendees of the Austin-based festival even more to look forward to, including the world premieres of We Summon the Darkness and The Mortuary, as well as the presentation of a lifetime achievement award to prolific filmmaker Takashi Miike.

We have the full final wave of programming in the official press release below, visit Fantastic Fest's website for more information, and stay tuned to Daily Dead for our live coverage of Fantastic Fest.

Press Release: Austin, TX — September 11, 2019 — Netflix brings the Us Premiere of the much-lauded I Lost My Body to Fantastic Fest after an award winning debut at Cannes Critics Week. From director Jérémy Clapin, this singular tale of a severed hand trying to reunite with its owner is told...

Location shooting is underway in Mexico and Argentina for Season 2 of Fox Premium’s “Here on Earth”, the multi award- winning series created by Gael Garcia Bernal, Kyzza Terrazas and Jorge Dorantes.

Mexican actors Adriana Barraza, Kristyan Ferrer and Natasha Dupeyron join the Season 1 cast toplined by Bernal, Alfonso Dosal, Daniel Giménez Cacho –who will also helm an episode – along with Tenoch Huerta, Colombian actress Paulina Dávila and Spanish actress Ariadna Gil.

The political drama-thriller series of eight one-hour episodes has already picked up a clutch of awards including at Canneseries, the Zurich Film Festival, and most recently at the Fenix Film Awards held in Mexico City in its Outstanding Ensemble Cast category.

In this new season of “Here on Earth,” lead character Carlos Calles (Dosal), begins to perceive certainties about the death of his father while his stepfather, Governor Mario Rocha (Giménez Cacho), tries to keep the truth hidden...

Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical exclusives for rent, priced from $3-$10, in 24- or 48-hour periods Carnage Park (action-thriller; Ashley Bell, Pat Healy; not rated) A Light Beneath Their Feet (drama; Taryn Manning, Madison Davenpor; rated R)  Buddymoon (comedy-drama; David Giuntoli, Flula Borg; not rated) 600 Miles (drama; Tim Roth, Kristyan Ferrer; rated R)  Boy and the World (animated; voices: Vinicius Garcia, Felipe Zilse; rated PG) By the Sea (drama-romance; Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie; rated R) I Saw...

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Mexican actor Kristyan Ferrer stars with Tim Roth in the Mexican film 600 Miles directed by Gabriel Ripstein. Ferrer (Buen Dia, Ramon, Sin Nombre), a festival film favorite, plays gun smuggler "Arnulfo" in 600 Miles, and he's telling CineMovie what the movie has to say about gun control. He's also naming the Hollywood A-listers he would like to work if he made an American film. Watch our Spanish interview.

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Jose here. I spoke to 600 Miles director Gabriel Ripstein minutes after an earthquake hit Mexico City on November 23rd and unexpectedly became the bearer of bad news when I asked him if his family was alright. Mr. Ripstein wasn’t aware there’d been an earthquake, but calmly added “no news is good news”. His serene demeanor reminded me of the tone of his film, a weapon-trafficking tale which could’ve easily become a sensationalist drama, but instead goes for an understated, thoughtful approach. The film stars Tim Roth as an American Atf agent who is kidnapped by a Mexican weapons smuggler played by Kristyan Ferrer (who audiences will know from Sin Nombre).

Ripstein allows his actors to revel in the humanity of these characters and delivers a film that goes beyond “odd couple” clichés, to comment on an issue that doesn’t get as much coverage as the war on drugs or terrorism.

Like many of the filmmakers who’ve made gangster movies, “600 Miles” writer-director Gabriel Ripstein admitted that he’s stolen from Martin Scorsese. In his case, he said at TheWrap’s Award Screening of his film, Mexico’s entry into the Oscar foreign-language race, it was a scene where baby-faced gangster Arnulfo (Kristyan Ferrer) tries out his tough image in a mirror. “Obviously, I stole it,” Ripstein told moderator Tim Appelo. “But in ‘Taxi Driver,’ it’s a scene of violence, and here it’s a moment of love, seduction – a young man coming to terms with his sexuality, which is really frowned upon.

Winning the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin International Film Festival is no small feat, and debutante Gabriel Ripstein achieved such distinction last February with "600 Miles," a singular take on the ambivalent relationship between Mexico and the United States. The film is Mexico's Official Oscar Entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

English-language talent is represented by British actor Tim Roth who stars as American Hank Harris, an Atf agent who crosses over kidnapped by Arnulfo Rubio (Kristyan Ferrer), a young man who smuggles weapons across the border. Regardless of their distinctively opposing worldviews, their destinies are intricately connected - just likes their respective homelands. Ferrer recently starred in films such as "Buen Dia, Ramon" and "The Empty Hours," both of which were released in the U.S.

Stateside distribution for "600 Miles" is being handled by Pantelion Films, the distribution and production company behind the most successful Spanish-language films ever released in the U.S. including Eugenio Derbez' "Instructions Not Included," "A La Mala," and the surprise animated hit "Un Gallo Con Muchos Huevos."

Pantelion "600 Miles" on December 4th on 50 screens across the U.S.

The official synopsis for the bi-national gripping thriller reads as follows: Arnulfo Rubio, a young gun trafficker between the United States and Mexico, is being followed by Atf agent Hank Harris.  After a risky mistake by Harris, Rubio makes a desperate decision: he smuggles the agent into Mexico.  And while these two apparent enemies slowly connect, they reach a dangerous place. And the only way out will be by trusting each other.

Check out the official poster for the film below:...

Gabriel Risptein’s Lucia Films thriller starring Tim Roth will fly the flag in the Academy’s foreign-language contest.

600 Miles premiered in Berlin where it earned Ripstein the Best First Feature Award before winning the Mezcal Award for best Mexican Film in Guadalajara.

Roth plays a Us agent who befriends his gun-smuggling captor during a long ride to the Mexican’s cartel bosses. Kristyan Ferrer also stars.

Michel Franco produced with Ripstein and Moisés Zanana.

One of the key functions of film festivals around the world is being able to pick out and showcase upcoming talent, often giving them a platform or a spotlight. The Berlin Film Festival is no different in this regard, as it offers a Best First Feature Award to first-time filmmakers whose submissions are accepted. The 2015 incarnation of the festival gave this award to Gabriel Ripstein for 600 Millas, or 600 Miles. The film’s synopsis is as follows.

Arnulfo Rubio smuggles weapons for a deadly Mexican cartel. Atf agent Hank Harris attempts to apprehend him, but gets kidnapped by Rubio, instead. Rubio takes him to his bosses, but during the 600-miles-long drive, they slowly befriend.

Ripstein directed the feature and co-wrote the screenplay with Issa López. Tim Roth and Kristyan Ferrer star in the leading roles, with Monica Del Carmen and Greg Lutz in the supporting cast. While it doesn’t have an American release date,...

As far as getting your name out there with your first feature film, things couldn't have gone better for director Gabriel Ripstein who snapped up the Best First Film trophy at the Berlin International Film Festival for "600 Miles." And while the movie hasn't yet landed a U.S. distributor, the international rollout is underway and the first trailer has arrived. Tim Roth, Harrison Thomas, Monica Del Carmen, Kristyan Ferrer, Craig Hensley, and Julian Sedgwick star in the movie that follows an Atf agent who tracks a young gun trafficker, only to find the tables turned when he's unexpectedly smuggled into Mexico by the very man he's been keeping an eye on. The situation is grim and the agent will have to do everything he can to bargain for his life, while the young trafficker learns a lesson about the hard realities of the line of business he's in. Hopefully this...

The Fifa film United Passions may have proved an unholy embarrassment for Roth, but this low-key kidnap drama shows he is still an excellent actor

At last, a smidgen of good news for Tim Roth, after the fiasco that is his Fifa film, United Passions. Another film, Mexican crime thriller 600 Miles, has come along to remind us that Roth is in fact – most of the time – a pretty good actor. Roth plays an Atf agent who finds himself shanghaied over the border to Mexico and, despite a wavering accent that lurches occasionally back to his native London, his quiet, intense presence is just right for the role.

600 Miles is actually Roth’s second Mexican film of recent vintage; Cronica, in which he played a palliative nurse, earned excellent notices when it premiered at Cannes. (But that was Bf: Before Fifa.) 600 Miles comes from the same stable: directed by Gabriel Ripstein,...

Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.

The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.

Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.

Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.

As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...

Grace is Gone: Gout’s Aggressive Debut Charts Patterns of Criminality

Don’t let the poetic title fool you, as Everardo Gout’s directorial debut Days of Grace does not document an iota of such virtue. As one character points out, “To live in Mexico is to gamble with your life every day.” Belonging to a growing class of Mexican filmmakers determined to recreate the visceral, dangerous realities of everyday existence, Gout’s work is comparable to names like Gerardo Naranjo and Amat Escalante. Drawing upon three thematically related incidents to filter his exploration of violence, Gout chooses a significant waning period, that of the World Cup. The televised event sees crime rates drop by thirty percent as both sides of the law take a break from the usual rampage. While Gout may not reveal anything surprising, his intention to unnerve and agitate is apparent from the first frame,...

The 2011 Cannes Film Festival was crushed with great films — "The Tree Of Life," "The Artist," "We Need To Talk About Kevin," "The Kid With A Bike," "Melancholia," "Drive" — so perhaps it's easy to see why the epic, Mexican crime drama "Days Of Grace," which screened in the Midnight Movie lineup, didn't quite get the spotlight it deserved. But Cinema Libre is finally bringing the film stateside, and today we have the exclusive U.S. trailer. Marking the directorial debut by Everardo Gout, and starring Tenoch Huerta, Kristyan Ferrer, Dolores Heredia, Carlos Bardem, and Eileen Yañez, the Mexico City-set film spans twelve years — benchmarked by the 2002, 2006 and 2010 World Cup — and follows three very disparate lives that intersect as they are impacted by violence and abduction. Lupe, an idealistic cop, is tasked to investigate a crime ring and finds that justice has no value when a human life has a price....

With the border between the United States and Mexico becoming an increasingly political chess piece in the battle over immigration and the fight waged in the war on drugs, it's not a surprise that more filmmakers are finding storytelling inspiration against that backdrop. Its within that milieu that Gabriel Ripstein makes his directorial debut with "600 Miles," premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival. Starring Tim Roth, Harrison Thomas , Monica Del Carmen, Kristyan Ferrer, Craig Hensley, and Julian Sedgwick, the story follows an Atf agent who tracks a young gun trafficker, only to find the tables turned when he's smuggled into Mexico. Here's the full synopsis: Arnulfo Rubio, a young Mexican, works with a gringo barely older than himself to smuggle weapons from Arizona to Mexico for a drug cartel. We follow him buying weapons, crossing borders and during his almost familial encounters with middle-men and clients. What Arnulfo does not know is that for.

The film world will descend upon Berlin soon for Berlinale. Opening this year's Panorama program on Friday, February 6th, is the directorial debut from Mexican filmmaker Gabriel Ripstein, 600 Miles. We have your first look at the poster. Arnulfo Rubio, a young gun trafficker between the United States and Mexico, is being followed by Atf agent Hank Harris.  After a risky mistake by Harris, Rubio makes a desperate decision: he smuggles the agent to Mexico.  And while these two apparent enemies will slowly connect, they reach a dangerous place.  And the only way out will be by trusting each other.The film stars Tim Roth, Kristyan Ferrer, Harrison Thomas and Noé Hernández.You can click on the poster for larger sizes. ...

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20th Century Fox released Jorge Ramírez Suárez’s latest film "Guten Tag, Ramón" in Mexico on August 21 and became season’s surprise hit. The warmhearted drama-comedy was also for 3 weeks in a raw 2nd place in screen average only behind "Hercules" (first week) and then "Lucy" (on its second and third week). The film is running its 5th week and became a 'sleeper', keeping 210 screens so far. Admissions today passed 1,150,000

"Guten Tag, Ramón" tells the story of Ramón (Kristyan Ferrer), a young man from a small northern Mexican town that has tried unsuccessfully five times to cross the U.S. border. Back home he refuses to become a criminal. He decides instead to look for a friend's aunt in Germany. He travels to Germany and he never finds the aunt. He survives in the streets until he meets Ruth (Ingeborg Schöner), a retired and lonely woman. Beyond language barriers and prejudices they develop an amazing friendship.

"Guten Tag, Ramón" is a Beanca Films’s co-production with Germany’s Mpn Cologne Film 3 (MedienParks) in association with Fox International Productions. It is written, directed and produced by Mexican-German helmer Jorge Ramírez-Suárez and co-produced by Thierry Potok and Jorge Eduardo Ramírez. Starring Kristyan Ferrer, Ingeborg Schöner, Héctor Kotsifakis, Arcelia Ramírez, Adriana Barraza. The film was shot in Wiesbaden and Frankfurt in Germany and Durango, Mexico.

The film will open in several territories in South and Central America in October. The release in Germany and the U.S. is set on January 22, 2015 also by 20th Century Fox. Other territories will follow.

At the risk of overextending a writing-workshop maxim, great cinema often proves that the tale is in the telling. The primacy of visuals necessitates that how a story is told weighs more heavily on the film's success than the nature of the story itself.

Such is the case with Aaron Fernandez's The Empty Hours, a studied, coming-of-age narrative that makes a familiar tale sing. Set at a by-the-hour seaside motel in Veracruz, the picture follows 17-year-old Sebastian (Kristyan Ferrer) as he starts managing the establishment. With little human contact and plenty of free time, Sebastian's curiosity gets the best of him, as he can't help but eavesdrop and spy upon the various lovers coming and going. Sebastian develops a friendship with beautiful Miranda (Adriana Paz), whose l...

"Mexico City. 2002, 2006, 2010. A cop. A hostage. A wife. Corruption, violence, vengeance. Three destinies, during 30 days, during three Soccer World Cups. Three ways to fight in order to survive." This is the synopsis of "Days Of Grace." Starring Eva Longoria, Carlos Bardem (Javier's brother), Miguel Rodarte and Paulina Gaitan, while writer/Director Everardo Gout's first feature doesn't have a U.S. release date yet (it screened out of competition at Cannes last year), it does have a rather interesting soundtrack worth noting and maybe that'll give it extra attention.

Out digitally April 3rd via Lakeshore Records, the soundtrack includes Massive Attack's Robert "3D" Del Naja featuring the one and only sultry-voiced Scarlett Johannsson, (presumably a remix of her "Summertime" George Gerswhin song that she performed on the Unexpected Dreams – Songs From the Stars compilation).

Japanese composer Shigeru Umebayashi (Wong Kar-Wai's "In The Mood For Love" and Zhang Yimou's...

Director: Luis Estrada Writers: Luis Estrada, Jaime Sampietro Starring: Damián Alcázar, Joaquín Cosio, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Mauricio Isaac, María Rojo, Elizabeth Cervantes, Salvador Sánchez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Jorge Zárate, Isela Vega, Kristyan Ferrer, Tenoch Huerta Benny Garcia (Damián Alcázar) moved to greener pastures -- the United States -- back when he was a teenager with hopes of becoming a successful Capitalist. Twenty years later he is deported back to Mexico -- presumably due to the increasingly xenophobic immigration policies in the U.S. Upon his return to his hometown, Bennie quickly discovers that a pair of feuding drug lords have taken over the region; his younger brother (Tenoch Huerta) and several of his closest friends have died as a result. Determined to remain on the straight and narrow, Benny begins working at his godfather's garage; but as soon as Benny falls for a gorgeous prostitute (Elizabeth Cervantes) -- the mother...

Formerly named the devilish El Infierno or The Hell, Lightning Entertainment has renamed this crime thriller to El Narco, aka The Drug Dealer. Recently completed, El Narco is a real heartwarming story of Benny (Damian Alcazar) and returning to his home town, in Mexico. In reality, his welcome involves gunfire, violence and his partially forced entry into the illicit drug export business. Here, events go from bad to worse and shortly, Benny is on the run from local authorities and into the deep pockets of the local crime lords.

El Narco was recently shown in Cannes 2011 (Lightning) and hopefully, good news will return from this locale, as a North American release date has not been announced so far. For now, watch the comedic, yet sinister hijinks of Benny and his criminal underlings in the exciting reel below.

The synopsis for El Narco is here:

"Drugs, guns, violence, death: Mexico today...

Chicago – “Sin Nombre” is not only one of the few great films released so far this year, it heralds the arrival of a confident, stunning new voice on the filmmaking scene in Cary Fukunaga.

Fukunaga has already won awards (including Best Director and Best Cinematography at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival) and been signed to a development deal by one of the best studios making movies today in Focus Features and his first film just came out. He sat down with us a few weeks ago to discuss the technical challenges of shooting on a train, finding his cast, and his advice for young filmmakers.

“Sin Nombre” tells the interweaving stories of a gang member in Tapachulas, Chiapas, Mexico and a Honduran girl trying to make it from her country to the United States by riding the rails for weeks at a time. The gangster, Casper (Edgar Flores), is a brother in the Mara Salvatrucha gang,...