October 11 - 17
EL GAVILÁN DE LA SIERRA
(The Mountain Hawk)  
2001-2002, 35mm, Color, 100 min., Mexico
In Spanish, WITH English subtitles

Screening times:

• October 11, Friday - 5:15, 7:30 & 10:00 p.m. (Click here for details on Opening Night Celebration)
• October 12, Saturday - 5:15, 12:45, 3:00, 7:30 & 10:00 p.m
• October 13, Sunday - 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30 & 10:00 p.m
• October 14 - 17, Monday thru Thursday - 5:15, 7:30 & 10:00 p.m

• Nominated for six “Ariel” Awards: Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Photography, and Editing!
• Winner at four film festivals: Acapulco French & Mexican 01, Guadalajara 02 (Best Mexican Photography), Mar Del Plata 02 (Best Music), Montreal World 02!
• Featuring the Best Supporting Actor-nominated Abel Woolrich of 1998’s “Mask of Zorro” and 1995’s “Mi Familia”

Gabriel Nevarez, Roque Aguilar and “El Meño” are riddled with bullets by a group of men in the Durango mountains. Rosendo Nevarez, who earns his living as a traveling musician, learns of his brother’s death and decides to return to El Salto, where his father, Don Joaquin, and Soledad, Gabriel’s widow, live. Once there, Rosendo begins discovering aspects of Gabriel’s life that he didn’t know about. He encounters several versions in which Gabriel appears as a common criminal or idealized with the mythical aura of a generous bandit. Gradually, Gabriel Nevarez’s story unfolds: he is the rebellious son, the determined man or the delinquent pursued by the law, the lone man of the mountains.

Director: Juan Antonio de La Riva
Starring: Guillermo Larrea, Juan Angel Esparza, Claudio Goitia, Mario Almada
Produced by Juan Antonio De La Riva 
Screenplay (in Spanish) by Juan Antonio De La Riva
Production Design by Pia Corti
Photography (Color) by Angel Goded
Edited by Oscar Figueroa
Music by Antonio Avitia

Juan Antonio de la Riva was born in San Miguel de Cruces, Mexico. He belongs to the first generation of graduates from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (the Mexican film academy) in Mexico City

Filmography:

• 1998 El Último Profeta (The Last Prophet)
• 1997 Antonio Elisa antes del fin del mundo (Elisa Before the End of the World)
• 1994 Monarca (Monarch)
• 1993 El Triste Juego del Amor (The Sad Game of Love)
• 1992 Más que Alcanzar una Estrella (More than Reach a Star)
• 1990 Pueblo de Madera (Town of Wood)
• 1985 Obdulia
• 1984 Vidas Errantes (Wandering Lives)
• 1978 Polvo vencedor del sol (Dust Conqueror of the Sun)