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El Norte (English: The North) is a 1983 independent drama film, directed by Gregory Nava. The screenplay was written by Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas , based on Nava's story. The movie was first presented at the Telluride Film Festival in 1983, and its wide release was in January 1984.
At a time when rhetoric about the border and the so-called “migrant crisis” continues unabated, “El Norte's" focus on the humanity of its Maya protagonists reorients the conversation around ...
El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America is a book by Carrie Gibson published in 2019 by Atlantic Monthly Press.The work explores the world of New Spain by profiling a variety of centers of Spanish power and settlement, from the earliest settlements in what would become Puerto Rico, Florida and the southeastern United States, to middle American settlements such as New ...
El Norte ("The North") may refer to: El Norte, 1983, directed by Gregory Nava; El Norte, a Mexican daily newspaper, published in the state of Nuevo Léon; El Norte, a gang in the television series Oz; El Norte, an album by the Gotan Project; El Norte (Region), an administrative district of the Spanish Empire created in 1776.
The Confessions of Amans, Nava's first feature film, won the Best First Feature Award at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1976. Later, he came to the attention of Hollywood producers due to the success of El Norte, which garnered Nava and his wife Anna Thomas an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay.
El Niño patterns generally affect winters more than summers in the U.S. According to NOAA, a typical El Niño winter would produce a warmer, dryer winter season for most states in the mid ...
The El Segundo Unified School District has been ordered by a jury to pay $1 million in damages for failing to stop middle schoolers from bullying a teenage girl for nearly a year.
Determined to reunite with his mother, Carlitos pays coyotes to help him cross through El Paso–Juárez into Mexico. However, the coyotes' car is towed by police for unrelated offenses. Carlitos exits the vehicle in a lot in El Paso, Texas, unwittingly dropping his money. Unable to buy a bus ticket alone, Carlitos asks a man to buy him a ticket.