Gregory nava biography
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For nearly 40 years, Gregory Nava has been one of the leading lights in the Latino film community.
Gregory nava biography
Long before Robert Rodriguez or Guillermo del Toro or Alejandro González Iñárritu chose to tell larger-than-life stories, Nava opted to tell human-sized stories. Oftentimes, his movies dealt with the collision point between Mexican and American cultures.
His first major feature was 1983’s “El Norte,” a moving chronicle of a brother and sister making the long and dangerous trek from Guatemala to America. The movie not only showed the difficulties of coming to America, but the equally difficult experience of assimilating.
(The movie received a Best Original Screenplay nomination.) In 1995’s “My Family” (aka “Mi Familia”), Nava showed us the flipside of “El Norte” as it followed two generations of a Mexican-American family living in Los Angeles for nearly 50 years.
The movie was filled with life, humor, color, and tragedy and contained an all-star cast including Edward James Olm