Born in january 11st, 1932 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
Arau has had a long and fruitful career both in front and behind the camera and is one of the most prominent filmmakers of the Latino community in Hollywood. Arau was a drama disciple of Seki Sano - a Japanese teacher, classmate of Lee Strassberg with Stanislavski in Russia - and traveled the world from 1964 to 1968 with his one-man show of Pantomime Happy Madness after studying with Etienne Dacroux and Jacques Lecoq in Paris.
A renowned writer-producer-director-actor in theater and films for the past twenty years, Arau directed in 1969 his first feature film Barefoot Eagle which he also starred. He has directed many films in Mexico among them Calzonzin Inspector (1973) and Mojado Power (1979). He has received 6 Arieles, the Mexican equivalent to the Oscar, and numerous international film awards.
Arau has acted in a number of Mexican and Hollywood films, including El Topo (1970), Mojado Power (1979), Used Cars (1980), Romancing the Stone (1984), ¡Three Amigos! (1986) and Committed (2000).
In addition to Like Water for Chocolate (1992), his directing credits include A Walk in the Clouds (1995) with Keanu Reeves and Picking Up The Pieces (2000) with Woody Allen. Also, he has worked in The Magnificent Amberson (2002) based on the script of Orson Welles and the novel by Booth Tarkington.
His most recent work finished as director and co writer is Zapata. El Sueño de un Héroe (2004), based on the life of the mexican hero of the Revolution, Emiliano Zapata.

Born in Cuba in 1957, but raised in Caracas, Venezuela, Maria Conchita Alonso was crowned Miss Teenager of the World in 1971 and Miss Venezuela in 1975. She became a popular actress in Latin America, working in ten telenovelas (soap operas) and starred in a quartet of Venezuelan films. She is also a popular singer, and has three Grammy nominations. In 1982, she emigrated to the US, and made her Hollywood film debut in 1984 in Paul Mazursky's Moscow on the Hudson (1984), opposite Robin Williams. In 1995 she was playing "Aurora/Spider Woman" in a Broadway production of "Kiss of the Spider Woman", making her the first South American woman to star on the Great White Way.
In adittion to her participation in TV series including Desperate Housewives and CSI Miami, she has acted in Chasing Papi (2003), Return to Babylon (2004) and Material Girls (2006).

Born in january 24th, 1964, he´s son of the great mexican writer Juan Rulfo.
Juan Carlos Rulfo has dedicated to filmmaking as an explorer utilizing camera and microphone to dig into the collective memory of people.
He finished a career in communication in the UNAM in 1987 at the same time he was public relations assistant of de Commercial Direction of the Churubusco-Azteca Studios. In 1988 he entered to the Cinematographic Capacitating Center (CCC) where studied the direction course with an specialty in script writing.
His thesis in the CCC was the short film El abuelo Cheno y otras historias (1995), documentary film where explores the life and death of his grandfather.
Famous for his poetic images and unforgettable reconstruction of almost forgotten memories of an old people group from a small town in Jalisco, México, the film got an Ariel for the best documentary short film and received the award for the best opera prima in the Latinamerican Film Festival of Biarritz, France.
His debut on the long film, Del olvido al no me acuerdo (1999), reconfirms him as the last years´ best mexican exponent in the documentary genre. Competing with fiction films, Rulfo´s documentary got four Arieles for opera prima, best photography, best editing and best sound.
In addition to his labor as director, he is new talent promoter on the filmmaking field: Diminutos del Calvario (2000), a mini-short films directed by students project, has crossed mexican boundaries  and lasted in Spain.
Same way, his most recent work as director and writer, En el Hoyo (2006) has taken him again in the spot light of the best of national filmmaking.

Born in december 23rd, 1967, in México City, Distrito Federal. He studied filmmaking in the Center of Cinematographic Capacitating Center (CCC). His Opera Prima, All of them are witches (1996), earned him four Arieles, two Diosas de Plata y several awards in international film festivals. It took a part on the official selection of foreign film at the Sundance Film Festival.
In 1996, he directed the short film De Jazmín en Flor, which was recognized as Best Short Film in several International Film Festivals including the Festival Du Monde, Montreal; Festival de Huelva, Spain; International Film Festival of Chile and in the Puerto Rico Film Festival, besides being considered with the Ariel for Best Short Film of it´s year by the Mexican Academy.
In addition, he has directed theatre, opera and more than two hundred commercials and music videos for Thalia, Ricky Martin, Paulina Rubio, Aleks Syntec y la gente normal, among others.
His last production, Never on a Sunday (2006), is treated according to genuine black comedy canons that the director uses with ability moving hilarious situations helped by excellent actors as Silverio Palacios, Humberto Busto y Maya Zapata.

She acts since six years old in cinema, theatre and TV. Sweet and sexy, won the Ariel for Best Actress (2001) in México for De la Calle (Altadis Award for New Directors; International Film Festival of Donostia, San Sebastian, 2001); she also stands out on the famous Herod´s Law (1999), Little Saints (1999), and Old Gringo (1989). In addition, she appears on the music videos Angel de Amor, of Maná, and Tanta Ciudad, of La Ley.
Her most recent work is directed by Daniel Gruener, Never on a Sunday (2006).

This tall, fair-haired son of Oscar-winner actor Ed Begley began his professional career in the 1960s with a guest appearance on My Three Sons and went on to achieve fame for his subsequent small screen work. Ed Begley Jr earned six successive Emmy nominations for his role as the bumbling but earnest Dr Victor Ehrlich on TV's St. Elsewhere (NBC, 1982-1988).
Prior to his incarnation of the esteemed yet inane doctor, the actor had amassed credits in recurring roles on such shows like Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (syndicated, 1976) and The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (CBS, 1977).
Begley's film career has been somewhat less fruitful than his TV work, although he has appeared in two Paul Bartel-helmed camp classics, Eating Raoul (1982) and Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989) and starred as a lustful husband of the She-Devil (1989).

He had his first leading role as the bug-turned-human in Meet the Applegates (1991), co-starring Stockard Channing. Begley can also be found in This is Spinal Tap (1984), as the drummer who dies from a bizarre gardening accident, Lawrence Kasdan's "The Accidental Tourist" (1988), as William Hurt's brother, Greedy (1994), as one of the relatives after Kirk Douglas's money, Gus Van Sant's Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994) and Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever (1995).

Actor who begun in You´ve Got an E- Mail (1998) and jump as a TV actor with the series Law & Order, in addition to participations in other films like Bittersweet Place (2005) and Road (2005).
Currently, he is a season actor for TV series Six Feet Under and recently performed for the film Ira & Abby (2006) where he plays the Ira rol.

She was born in Monterrey, México on June 22, 1960. Daughter of famous actor and director Rafael Banquells.
She started very young doing musicals, performing the main roles in Grease, The Sound of Music, Anything Goes, Carnival, Jesuschrist Superstar and at age of 19 in 1981 for the first time, Evita (directed by famous director Harold Prince). She also did for TV famous Latin American soap operas, the most successful ones being where she had the role of the villain Bianca as Monica in 1983, La Fiera as Brenda in 1984 and Los Ricos Tambien Lloran (The Rich Ones Also Cry) as Esther in 1979 (this one was a big success in Europe and Asia too).
She has also a brilliant singer career, she has recorded several albums with big Latin American sales, more than 9,000,000 copies sold, awards with Gold, Platinum and Diamond Albums. Performing also the only duet made by famous Latin Singer Luis Miguel with an Spanish speaking singer No Me Puedo Escapar de Ti. In 1987 she made for Coca Cola Company the Latin American version for the famous song and commercial First Time. In 1991, Walt Disney Company asked her to do the Spanish Version for the successful movie The Beauty and the Beast, recording on the same track with Celine Dion.
In 1998 she performed Evita again in Latin America. Her Broadway album I Dreamed a Dream won the ACE Award as the best Latin Album of the decade in New York.

Mexican on his origin, son of actor Luis Beristáin, Gabriel Beristáin left his natal country at 20 years old to travel to Europe y lived for sixteen years in England. He studied at the National Film and Television School.
He is best known for his great success films like Derek Jarman´s Caravaggio that earned the Best Photography Award at the Film Festival in Berlin in 1987. He made camera for The Green Line by Frank Darabont; after Stephen King, Gabriel Beristáin worked in films like The Good Father, of Mike Newell, Monseiur Le Depute and Trial and Error by Jonathan Lynn; Carl Reiner´s Fatal Instinct and Bound by Honor of Taylor Hackford.
He directed de photography for Taylor Hackford´s Dolores Claiborne, The Spanish Prisoner by David Mamet; The Year of the Comet, by José Buil and Marisa Sistach; Robert Altman and Bruce Beresford´s Aria, K2 by Franc roddam and Blade 2, by Guillermo del Toro. Immediately,  he saw S. W. A. T., after, the thriller The Ring 2 by Hideo Nakata and Blade Trinity, written and directed by David S. Goyer, with Wesley Snipes.
Later, he signed the photography of Raymond, by Brian Robbins, with Tim Allen, and The Invisible, by David S. Goyer. He has worked with Michael Douglas in 1996, there for, he was director of photography of the tenth production for L´ombre et la Proie by Stephen Hopkins.
He made his debut as a filmmaker in 2000 with El Grito, a mexican-american coproduction. He has also produced and/or direct several mexican and colombian films and some others short films, besides of the irish long film Joyriders and many more international coproductions.
He has settled down in Los Angeles since 1991. He´s a member of the AMPAS and of the British Academy of Arts for Film and Television. In 2006, he participate on The Sentinel, as a photography director.

She started her actino studios at the Centre of Artistic Education (CEA) and later started taking theatre classes at the Sergio Jiménez workshop.
After a while, Cid entered in music industry by publishing an album with a young group called Roll under label by Sony Music. She also was a member of the band DKDA.
She got her first chance for acting in TV novel Salud, Dinero y amor, an Emilio Larrosa´s production. After that, she played a beautiful gipsy in TV novel Preciosa, starred by Mauricio Islas and Irán Castillo.
Other histories where she has participated are Infierno en el Paraíso, DKDA, La Intrusa and Tres Mujeres.
In theatre field, she has done three different plays, the opera rock Dracula among them.
In 2004 participates in the children novel Amy, la Niña de la Mochila Azul, where he plays Angélica Hinojosa.

In may, 2004, she decides to be a part of second chapter of reality show Big Brother VIP 3, Ch. 2, where she goes out as the fourth expelled.

After studying engineering (a subject he said was ideally suited to making low-budget films on a tight schedule), Roger Corman attempted to break into films by the tried and trusted method of working as a messenger for 20th-Century Fox, eventually rising to the position of story analyst.
He started direct involvement in films in 1953 as a producer and screenwriter, making his debut as director in 1955. Between then and his official retirement in 1971 he directed dozens of films, often as many as six or seven per year, typically shot extremely quickly on leftover sets from other, larger, productions.
His probably unbeatable record for a professional 35mm feature film was two days and a night to shoot the original version of The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), though several other films were made in less than a week. In the early 1960s, his budgets got bigger (though never big), when he made a series of adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories starring Vincent Price.
Apart from Frankenstein Unbound (1990), he retired from directing in 1971 to concentrate on production and distribution through his company New World (and later Concorde), making low-budget exploitation films and using the profits to distribute distinguished art films.
Apart from making dozens of enormously entertaining films (there are amazingly few duds in his output), Corman's place in film history is assured simply through his unrivalled eye for talent - among many world-class names who were employed by him at a very early stage in their careers are Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, Peter Bogdanovich, Joe Dante and many others - which means that his influence on modern American cinema is almost incalculable.

Mexican store writer. Daughter of the famous filmmaker Emilio “El Indio” Fernández. She was borned in Mexico City. Has published the short stories book El Perro (1972), her father´s biography, El Indio Fernández (1986) and several texts on anthropology, history and theatre.

The incomparable Maria Muldaur has always traversed a wide expanse of American music--in 2003, she recorded A Woman Alone with the Blues, a tribute to jazz icon Peggy Lee--and so perhaps it shouldn't come as a surprise that she has now applied her interpretive gifts to the love songs of Bob Dylan.
Choosing from among his classics ('I'll Be Your Baby Tonight') and lesser-known works ('Golden Loom'), Muldaur bravely recasts several songs in disparate grooves (reggae, Cajun, swing), and even allows keyboardist David Torkanowsky to sneak a few bars of the jazz standard 'Ain't Misbehavin'' into the end of 'Moonlight.' As expected, Muldaur is most at home with lazy, country-blues treatments ('Buckets of Rain''). But she can also effectively pull off the intense drama of total sublimation, especially on 'Wedding Song' and 'Make You Feel My Love,' which she renders so tenderly as to elicit a tear.

The title track finds her trying to talk herself out of an unsuitable lover, yet one suspects she won't be able to outsmart her heart. On both 'Lay Baby Lay' (the gender-switching version of 'Lay Lady Lay') and 'You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go,' she eschews Dylan's urgent and poignant sexuality for sensuality, making both songs a study in how the sexes approach the chemistry of love.

Born in Brooklyn of Italian and native-American parentage with the unlikely name of Concetta Anna Ingolia.
In Hollywood from 1953, Connie formed a vocal group "The Three Debs" while trying to break into films as an extra. Although she managed to co-star in a few mediocre teen dramas such as Young and Dangerous (1957), Eighteen and Anxious (1957), The Party Crashers (1958), and Dragstrip Riot (1958), it was comedian Jerry Lewis who set things in motion by casting the unknown starlet in his comedy Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958). Warner Bros. signed her up for their hot detective series "Hawaiian Eye" (1959) and she was off. As pert and pretty Cricket Blake, a slightly flaky and tomboyish singer/photographer, Connie became an instant teen idol -- trendy and undeniably appealing.
In the 1970s she refocused on her voice and started lining up singing commercials (Ace Hardware) while subsisting in nightclubs and hotels. Connie eventually built herself up as a Las Vegas headlining act. She also starred on Broadway with "The Star-Spangled Girl" and won a Theatre World Award for her performance in 1967. Comedian Bob Hope's made her one of his regular entertainers on his USO tours. Sporadic films came her way every now and then. A TV-movie The Sex Symbol (1974) (TV) had her playing a tragic Marilyn Monroe type goddess. There was also innocuous fun with Grease 2 (1982) and Back to the Beach (1987) with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.

Mexican actress with a long career in TV novels and national cinema. Among those productions are Amores… Querer con Alevosía (2001), El País de las Mujeres (2002) and Las Juanas (2004).
She has participations in Demasiado Amor (2001), Aro Tolbukhin: en la mente del asesino (2003), Sexo, amor y otras perversiones (2005) and Un Mundo Maravilloso (2006).

Mexican actor who starts in television in novels like El Amor de mi Vida (1998) and series like Lo que Callamos las Mujeres.
In cinema, he has participated in films like Demasiado Amor (2002), El Tigre de Santa Julia (2002), Matando Cabos (2004), The Legend of Zorro (2005), Un Mundo Maravilloso (2006), Morirse en Domingo (2006) directed by Daniel Gruener and Kilómetro 31 of this very year.

Fred Willard radiates a unique charm that has established him as one of the industry's most gifted comic actors, first coming to prominence as ambitious but dimwitted sidekick Jerry Hubbard to Martin Mull's smarmy talk-show host Barth Gimble in the devastating satirical series Fernwood 2Nite (1977).
A master of sketch comedy, he is most heralded for his quick wit and improvisational expertise. His 50 appearances in sketches on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) are indicative of his ability to transform any character into a unique comic portrayal. Fred recently completed a sold-out run of his one-man show, Fred Willard: Alone At Last! (with a cast of 12) and received two Los Angeles Artistic Director Awards, for Best Comedy and Best Production.
He is an alumnus of The Second City and currently heads a sketch comedy workshop, The MoHo Group.
One of his most recent works is in the film For Your Consideration, a full hit in América written and directed by Christopher Guest and he´s part of the cast of Ira & Abby (2006), closing movie for this Festival.