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Gregory Nava’s El Norte will be rereleased theatrically for the first time since its original run 35 years ago. Thanks to a brand new restoration conducted by the Academy Film Archive and the Getty Foundation, audiences can see it in theaters on September 15—the first day of Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month, which coincides with the independence days of Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Mexico.
Directed by Nava from a screenplay co-written by Anna Thomas, El Norte tells the story of two indigenous siblings who flee from persecution in their native Guatemala to follow the promise of a better life in the United States. Together Nava and Thomas attended the inaugural 1981 Directors Lab as part of a cohort of filmmakers invited by Robert Redford to develop their screenplays with the newly founded Sundance Institute. At the heart of El Norte is what Redford calls “the pursuit of a sense of place”—a struggle that resonates as deeply today as it did 35 years ago.
To learn more about El Norte, check out this interview with Gregory Navaandthis essay by Héctor Tobar.
Photos: 1. Film still courtesy of El Norte ; 2. Creative Advisor Waldo Salt and El Norte filmmakers Anna Thomas and Gregory Nava. © 1981 Sharon M. Beard
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It’s OK to take a writing break. It’s OK to give yourself time to think about what you’re writing, to process notes, to let it circulate inside you like your blood. Don’t be afraid to take a day or a few days to just think. Or not think, and let it come to you. It’s OK.
We have to learn, as writers, that our story remains our story, so that we are not afraid to make changes. - Kasi Lemmons
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The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don’t. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don’t speak in dialogue. Their lives don’t unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc. - Aaron Sorkin
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Being able to deal under pressure is part of what you have to do. At the same time, I don’t think you’d be doing it if you weren’t dealing with some kind of crazy anxiety under it, because that’s what draws you to do it I think. - Matt Reeves
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It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I’m not planning to write a script; I’m planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there. - Alex Garland
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In the old days, I would just type the piece over and over in the hopes that it would somehow push me into the next sentence. But you don’t do that anymore with computers. I think one thing that you do is just make notes. You have to sit in a period called ‘not-writing’ and write pages and pages of anything that crosses your mind. Or you can read things that will help you … the point is you do something, whether or not it’s the actual writing. - Nora Ephron
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You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn’t in the world before. It doesn’t matter what it is. It doesn’t matter if it’s a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, ‘I did that’. - Ricky Gervais
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What’s important to me about horror stories is to look at what’s actually horrifying about humanity, instead of shining a flashlight on it and running away giggling. - Robert Eggers
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My writing process has stayed pretty much the same all the way through, and it’s not everybody’s. The way I work and the advice I would give is: work fast, work dirty and share what you have done. - William Nicholson
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My main intent in directing is getting the performance from the actors to execute the story correctly and clearly. Fill it up with wonderful little performance pieces. I’m not a technical director, I’m not interested in lenses or the other technical aspects. - John Hughes
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As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room. - John Singleton
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I like messiness in scripts and I like a voice. I like somebody who hasn’t studied the form over and over again. They just wanted the story to come out and they wanted it to be in the screenplay form. - Basil Iwanyk
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The easy way ultimately becomes the hard way because you end up paying a price. You basically just make mediocre work… when you kind of force yourself to walk into the fire a bit, and you’re on your toes, and you’re just trying to survive constantly, then you come up with great new ideas. And you come up with more inventive solutions to the problems. - Taika Waititi
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Certainly as a director you want to be working with people who are on the same page as you and that you can trust and get along with. - Robert Eggers
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The things that really get me on a script is when they meander, and they meander, and they meander. You want somebody to have a point of view. You don’t want to preach to people what the movie is, you want to take them through the story. And so often you’ll find shortcomings when people write so much dialogue that they’re just hitting you over the head with what the movie is about rather than showing you. - Shannon McIntosh
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Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes important that we’re groping toward some kind of story with a certain kind of tone that we both get somehow. But I don’t think how that’s combined with other elements is ever in any way overtly discussed. - Joel Coen
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In some ways filmmaking is the same as I thought it was going to be…there’s all this other stuff, and all this other pressure that you’ll deal with. But the one part of it is exactly the same, which is this impulse to do something that you are excited about and that has meaning for you. - Matt Reeves
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For some reason, no one wanted to give me money to make a movie written in early modern English that involved a lot of puritans praying – even if it did involve a witch. - Robert Eggers
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I think the stuff that I love is a voice. A specificity of voice and point of view. And that could be in character, or in action or in the world. It could be whatever it is. I desperately want to feel a storyteller. - Basil Iwanyk
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I don’t write on set. I also – in a funny way, I don’t really differentiate between the writing and directing, I think it’s all sort of the same thing. - Alex Garland
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