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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Executive Producer, Associate Producer, Editor Born: April 10, 1949 in San Diego, CA Biography:Filmmaker "Gregory Nava" is a director with an uncanny knack for capturing the epic drama of ordinary lives. Educated at the U.C.L.A. film school, Nava made an auspicious debut in the mid-'70s with Confessions of Amans. Filmed on a low budget with a script written by himself and his wife, "Ann Thomas" (also a filmmaker), it earned the Chicago International Film Festival Best First Feature Award in 1976. His 1983 film "El Norte", a moving chronicle of Guatemalan Mayan Indians who leave the repression of their homeland to make new lives in California, earned him and "Thomas" an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Nava's 1995 film "My Family/Mi Familia" likewise impressed with its magical realism and seamless blend of pathos and comedy; like "El Norte" and the less successful "Time of Destiny" (1988), the film contains strong cultural themes that deal with the lives of an immigrant family... Full Biography
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