Carlos Carrera
Carlos Carrera (born 18 August 1962) is a Mexican film director and screenwriter.
His debut feature from 1991, La mujer de Benjamín, earned him the Ariel Award for Best First Feature. In 1994 at the Cannes film festival he won the Palme d’Or in the Short film category for El héroe.
In 2002, under advise from Alfredo Ripstein, Carrera directed El crimen del Padre Amaro, about the romantic relationship between a catholic priest and a woman. The film was an adaptation of the novel by José María Eça de Queiroz with a screenplay by playwright Vicente Leñero, starring Gael García Bernal and Ana Claudia Talancón. When it was released, the film caused a controversy on the part of Roman Catholic groups in Mexico who tried to stop the film from being screened. The film was a success at the box office, both in Mexico and internationally. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 75th Academy Awards. It was also nominated to 13 Ariel awards, winning 9 of them.
In 2009, he directed Backyard about the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez, which won a silver plaque at the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival. The film was nominated for 9 Ariel awards, winning 5 of them.
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