Filmmaker Gregory Nava was still early in his career when he made his mark with “El Norte,” the movie that made its debut in 1984 to rave reviews, sparked a national conversation about the ...

And Hollywood was not telling them. Major studios weren’t going to make a movie like El Norte. Are you kidding me? A movie about teenage Mayan refugees—they’re going to make that movie?

because the message of the movie is really more relevant today than when it was originally made." "El Norte" follows a young ...

“One of the things that I wanted to do when I made ‘El Norte’ was to tell a Latino story in a Latino way,” he says. “I didn’t want to do a movie that was imitative of something else.