'Miss Bala' Crowned Mexico's Foreign-Language Oscar Submission

Mexico City -- Mexico has selected Gerardo Naranjo's action-packed Miss Bala becasue it is foreign-language Oscar contender for your 84th Academy awards.our editor recommendsMiss Bala: Cannes Review'Miss Bala' Planning for Fall Release in MexicoTwentieth Century Fox Nabs Mexico Distribution Rights for 'Miss Bala' Directed and co-put together by up-and-comer Naranjo (I'm Gonna Explode), Miss Bala involves a beauty pageant contestant who involuntarily can get caught in the heart of a drug war in Baja California. The Mexican film academy mentioned on Thursday additionally, it offers selected Miss Bala as Mexico's foreign-picture submission for that country's 26th Goya Honours. The Canana Films-Fox Worldwide co-production opened up in Cannes' Not Sure Regard section and consists of examined at film fests in Toronto and San Sebastian. Within the recent edition in the Tokyo, japan, japan Film Festival, it won best director for Naranjo and greatest actress for newcomer Stephanie Sigman. Canana Films, the expansion company possessed by stars Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna and producer Pablo Cruz, has produced three of Naranjo's movies. Should he have the nomination, Naranjo will probably be searching being the initial Mexican director to produce home an Oscar for top foreign-language picture eight Mexican features have acquired nominations inside the category since 1957, yet none have won the coveted award. Related Subjects Oscars Worldwide Oscars 2012 Miss Bala