How the movie 'Selena' became a cultural marker for Mexican Americans and other Latinos who see their own bicultural family experiences reflected in her story.
" — which earned Nava and his co-screenwriter and former spouse, Anna Thomas, an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay in 1985 — follows the perilous path of two siblings from Guatemala who have to leave their Indigenous community to escape the brutal civil war tearing their homeland apart in the 1980s.
The movie shows in searing detail their journey crossing the Mexican border to get to Los Angeles. Once in the U.S., the siblings realize the wealth and safety they yearned for is not guaranteed, as they navigate a foreign culture and an unknown language and try to evade immigration officials and find work in precarious places like sweatshops or the back of a restaurant.
About 35 years after the movie premiered,"El Norte" was restored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences andIn"My Family," Nava depicted the lives and experiences of two generations of a Mexican American family who have been living in Los Angeles since the 1920s. Described in a review the film's all-star cast includes Edward James Olmos, Constance Marie, Esai Morales, Jimmy Smits and Jennifer Lopez.Cast members Jon Seda, Jennifer Lopez, Edward James Olmos and Constance Marie pose with director Gregory Nava, behind, at the premiere of "Selena" in 1997.
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