MEXICO - COUNTRY IN THE SPOTLIGHT

TROPIC OF CANCER
TROPICO DE CANCER



Eugenio Polgovsky

Country of production: Mexico
Year: 2004
Language: Spanish
Mins: 52

Production company: Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica A.C. (CCC)
Producer: Eugenio Polgovsky
Script: Eugenio Polgovsky
Cinematography: Eugenio Polgovsky
Editing: Eugenio Polgovsky
Sound: Isabel Muñoz

Source: Centro De Capacitation Cinematografica
Calaz. Tlalplan 1670, Col.County Club
04420 Mexico D.F. Mexico
Tel: 52.55 1253 9490
Fax: 52.55 1253 9492
e-mail: festival@ccc.cnart.mx
www.ccc.cnart.mx


In the arid desert of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, located on the Tropic of Cancer, various families eke out a hardscrabble existence by hunting and gathering and then selling some of their wares by the side of Highway 57, the country’s most important trade route. These families live as in prehistoric times in perilous conditions among the cactuses. Under the scorching sun, they use homemade traps and weapons to catch birds, rodents, tortoises and poisonous snakes. Their primary worry is starvation. They eat most of what they catch but offer other flora and fauna to rich car owners along the interstate. Director Eugenio Polgovsky Ezcurra’s unique visual style and sound design lend additional poignance to this account of a lost way of life crossing paths with modern tourism. Best Documentary, Morelia Film Festival.

Eugenio Polgovsky Ezcurra was born in 1974 in Mexico City. In 1994 he won a special prize in the ACCU/UNESCO photography contest celebrating the United Nations year of tolerance. In 1997 he made a photographic documentary about the assimilation of Asian people in Canada. He studied film photography and directing at the CCC, Mexico, and has directed two short films, one of which won a prize in Mexico. Tropic of Cancer is his first feature film.

FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR

TROPIC OF CANCER (2004)
THE COLOUR OF HIS SHADE (2003)
GOODBYE MARINA (2001)

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