Lights. Camera. Acción! Latino filmmakers on the move

by Monica Rhor

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's childhood in Laredo, Texas, was one of art and poetry and music, where Mexican boleros and the words of Octavio Paz filled the house. Spanish was the language of home, and the border separating the town from its Mexican sister city of Nuevo Laredo was a fluid concept.

It was also a time of devouring movies — visits to Laredo's theaters, binging on rentals from the Video Hut, discovering films that would change his life, such as Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets.

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