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4 unusual facts about Guillermo Arriaga


Emilio Echevarría

Most recently he has appeared in El Búfalo de la Noche along with Tambien co-star Diego Luna, written by Perros author Guillermo Arriaga.

Guillermo Arriaga

Self-defined as “a hunter who works as a writer,” he wrote the screenplay of Amores Perros, received a BAFTA Best Screenplay nomination for 21 Grams, and received the 2005 Cannes Best Screenplay Award for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005); had an acting cameo in the film as a bear hunter

The success of Amores Perros earned Arriaga and Iñárritu an invitation to the U.S. to work on the Universal/Focus feature film 21 Grams, starring Benicio del Toro, Naomi Watts and Sean Penn.


Ultraviolins

Dedbol is a series of disjointed dagli about random people—a serial killer, some kidnappers, a four-piece band, and girls on a shower party—converging for a split second in the Divine Intersection before splitting up again to conclude their narratives, borrowing Guillermo Arriaga’s narrative conceit from the seminal McOndo movie Amores perros only lacking the social and political implications of the original.


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