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Guatemala

Filmmaker · Guatemala

Gregory Nava

Gregory Nava was born in San Diego in 1949 into a Mexican and Basque family, on the border he would film all his life. He graduated from the film school of the University of California, Los Angeles, and shot his first film at twenty-four, which won a prize at a Spanish festival. He went on to direct Mi familia and Selena, and wrote for television a series about a Mexican American family. He teaches cinema and still works in Los Angeles. He co-writes most of his films with his wife, the producer Anna Thomas.

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