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THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
About the cast
Gael García Bernal (Ernesto Guevara de la Serna)
Gael García Bernal made his feature debut in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s acclaimed Amores Perros, which won the Audience Award at AFI Fest as well as both the Critics Week Grand Prize and the Young Critics awards at Cannes. The film would go on to win the BAFTA for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for an Academy Award®. Bernal’s performance in the film earned him a Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival and a Silver Ariel Award in Mexico.
His next big sceen appearance was in Alfonso Cuaron’s equally celebrated coming of age tale Y Tu Mama Tambien, which also starred Bernal’s lifelong friend Diego Luna. Y Tu Mama Tambien won the National Society of Film Critics award in addition to 8 regional film critics awards, the Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film and was nominated for a BAFTA, an Academy Award® and a Golden Globe. For their performances, Bernal and Luna shared a Marcello Mastroianni Award at the Venice Film Festival.
In 2002, Bernal played the title role in Carlos Carrera’s romantic drama El Crimen del Padre Amaro, which was nominated for a Goya Award, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award®. For his performance in the film, Bernal won Best Actor from the Mexican Cinema Journalists and Most Promising Performer from the Chicago Film Critics Association.
Bernal recently wrapped production on Pedro Almodovar’s next film Bad Education, in which he stars. The film will be released in 2004.
Rodrigo de la Serna (Alberto Granado)
Rodrigo de la Serna has established himself as a versatile actor in his native Argentina, where he has worked in several plays. Film credits to date include Same Love, Same Rain (1999), directed by Juan José Campanella, Nuts For Love (2000), directed by Alberto Lecchi and Gallito Ciego (2001), directed by Santiago Carlos Oves.
His television work to date includes Naranja Y Media (1997), Okupas (2000) and Calientes (2000).
Mía Maestro (Chichina Ferreira)
Argentinian actress Mía Maestro has accrued a selection of impressive film credits since she made her debut in Tango, directed by Carlos Saura in 1998. Film credits to date include Mike Figgis’ Timecode, starring Saffron Burrows and Salma Hayek and Hotel, starring Salma Hayek, Holly Hunter and Kyle Machlachlan. She recently co-starred with Geoffrey Rush, Edward Norton and Salma Hayek in Frida, a biopic of the artist Frida Kahlo, directed by Julie Taymor. She also starred in In The Time Of Butterflies, directed by Mariana Barroso for television.
About the filmmakers
Walter Salles (Director)
Walter Salles’ 1995 feature, Foreign Land, won eight international awards including Brazil’s Best Film of the Year. His next film, Central Station, was selected for the Sundance-NHK Cinema 100 Award for its screenplay and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998. Central Station went on to receive the Golden Bear for Best Film and Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival that same year, the Golden Globe and the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1999 and two Academy Award® nominations.
His most recent feature, Behind the Sun, was nominated for both the BAFTA Award and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002.
In addition to his feature film directing, Salles also acts as producer or co-producer of young filmmakers' features in Brazil. He co-produced City of God, directed by Fernando Meirelles and co-directed by Katia Lund, and produced Karim Ainouz's Madame Sata. He is now producing Cidade Baixa, the first film by his former Assistant Director Sergio Machado, as well as Andrucha Waddington’s new film, The House of Sand.
José Rivera (Writer)
José Rivera’s plays have been seen nationally and translated into six languages. They include Marisol (Obie Award Best Play), References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Obie Award), Cloud Tectonics, Each Day Dies with Sleep, The Promise, The House of Ramon Iglesia, Giants Have Us In Their Books, Sueno, The Street of the Sun, Sonnets for an Old Century, Brainpeople and Adoration of the Old Woman. Rivera studied with Gabriel García Marquez at the Sundance Institute and was writer-in-residence at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on a Fulbright Arts Fellowship in Playwriting. TV work includes the critically-acclaimed series “Eerie, Indiana,” which he co-created and produced for NBC. Film work includes The House of Ramon Iglesia (PBS), A Bolero for the Disenchanted (Showtime), Somewhere in Time II (Universal), Lucky (Radar Pictures), The Eddy Matos Story (HBO) and Revenge (HBO for director Julie Taymor). Rivera serves on the boards of The Sundance Institute and IFP.
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