Making films on real life events or real life people is always a challenge, especially if the events are not well documented in the media, there is a lack of footage of the real life person or the person involved in the event is dead.
When you're actor, writer, producer, and soon-to-be-director, Adrian Martinez life is pretty sweet for he often plays the sidekick, the wing man and the loyal friend who gets to share laughs both on and off-screen with some of the funniest and most talented actors in Hollywood.
Rio de Janiero, Brazil will be the backdrop for the upcoming film about the life of soccer legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pele. Pele is a U.S. production in English, and will be a coming-of-age story that will chronicle Pele's life from his childhood in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil to his rise as a champion and victor in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden as the youngest player to play in a World Cup final match at the age of 17.
Christmas and the holiday season are important to Latinos, traditionally and culturally, and that being so, it's amazing to see Latinos on screen, portraying interesting and intelligent characters in films about the season. While there needs to be more seasonal films where Latinos are the lead, there are a number of films that Latinos can refer to when they want to see themselves represented on screen.
Los 33 (The 33), the highly-anticipated film about the 2010 Chilean mining disaster, will star Antonio Banderas, and it is facing its fair share of issues.
