New Feature Film Project: ‘The All Saints’ Day Lovers’
Salvador Carrasco has just signed a contract with the prestigious agency Casanovas & Lynch to turn Juan Gabriel Vasquez’s ‘The All Saints’ Day Lovers’ into a feature film.
Master of the Lens
“I'm not one of those cases," he says, "There are many such cases, that tell you that when they were five-years-old they had a little video camera and they filmed their clay toys and they did their little home movies. I wasn't one of those.”
Being There Without Being There in the Era of COVID-19 (Senses of Cinema)
In the history of cinema, filmmakers have often faced seemingly insurmountable difficulties to produce meaningful films, and time and again they have turned those challenges into creative opportunities that have expanded the palette of cinematic language.
Preparing a ‘Conquest’
History is written for the victors and what they leave out are the losers, academic historian Arthur Drexler noted. But Mexican director Salvador Carrasco wanted to tell the losers' story.
'Conquest' Reveals Clash, Fusion of Spirit
In his bravura feature debut, Carrasco has created nothing less than a dazzling vision of the birth of a uniquely Mexican religion born of the searing fusion of Catholic and Aztec deities.
New filmmaking from A to Z.com
“The Other Conquest” (“La Otra Conquista”) preemed in L.A. in advance of its domestic openings this week with exec producer Placido Domingo, son-producer Alvaro Domingo, writer/director Salvador Carrasco and its star Elpidia Carrillo on hand at the Acad gala for the spectacular film.
Review: The Other Conquest
Against all odds, "The Other Conquest" has turned out to be one of the most successful Mexican releases of the decade. Boffo business in opening weekend was 20% higher than that of Mel Gibson vehicle "Payback" and bigger than any other Mexican pic in history.
A Story of Tolerance Across the Ages
The mind-jarring clash of cultures--and the traumatic birth of a new nation--is the subject of Salvador Carrasco’s “The Other Conquest,” a historical drama that explores the religious and political roots of Mexico through the prism of the human soul.It all begins with an idea.