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GUILLERMO NAVARRO AMC/ASC |
Born: 1955, Ciudad de México [Mexico City], Mexico.
Education: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México [UNAM] [Sociology], Mexico City.
Career: 'I started taking stills when I was 13 years old. I took a photography workshop in middle school. I had a very small darkroom at home. I took it very seriously. I did a lot of different things, and I had to learn fast, because I had to take care of myself at a very young age, 15 or 16. I was independent by then, and I was able to support myself. I shot album covers, a lot of tabletop work, and later some fashion photography. I also did some stills for motion pictures. My sister was a producer. The first stills I took on movie sets were for her. That triggered my interest in cinematography. I was a camera assistant for about a year. I was pretty bad at following focus. I decided that I wasn't going to follow the traditional way of climbing up the ladder. It was very hard to get into the industry as a cameraman. I had to find a way to do work outside the main industry. I worked on a lot of documentaries, both shooting and directing. I decided to go to Europe and that became my film school. I moved to London first, but that didn't work out because of regulations that limited my chances to work. I moved on to Paris where a director of photography took me under his wing and became my mentor. His name was Ricardo Aronovich. […] It took me around 10 years from shooting my first stills on a movie set to doing my first feature as a director of photography.' [From the KODAK OnFilm website.]
Moved to the USA in 1994.
Ph commercials dir by Rick Schulze, Adam Massey, Jonathan David, Terry Windell [for Pfizer], Bryan Singer, a.o.
Appeared in the doc ''Hellboy': The Seeds of Creation' [2003, Javier Soto; 143m].
Awards: Cannes IFF Critic's Award [1993] for 'Cronos'; 'Emmy' Award nom [1994] for 'Lost Kingdoms of the Maya'; 'Oscar' AA [2006], Camerimage 'Golden Frog' Award [2006], BSFC Award [2006], NYFCC Award [2006], BAFTA Film Award nom [2006], Silver Ariel Award [2007], Independent Spirit Award [2007] & 'Goya' Award [2007] for 'El laberinto del fauno/Pan's Labyrinth'; Los Angeles Latino IFF 'Gabi Lifetime Achievement Award' [2011].
FILMS |
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1973 |
Sur: sureste 2604 [Paul Leduc] c; doc/20m; cph: Rafael Corkidi, Miguel Garzón, Ángel Goded & Alexis Grivas |
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1978 |
Nicaragua, los que harán la libertad [Bertha Navarro] 16mm/?; doc/45m |
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1978 |
Esta voz entre muchas [Humberto Ríos] 16mm/b&w; doc/45m |
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1979 |
El día que vinieron los muertos/Mazatecos I [Luis Mandoki] 16mm/c; doc/69m; cph: Toni Kuhn |
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1980 |
Historias prohibidas de Pulgarcito/Forbidden Tales of Tom Thumb [Paul Leduc] 16mm/c; doc/132m; cph: Ángel Goded & Leoncio Villarias |
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1980 |
El tango es una historia/Tango Is History [Humberto Ríos] 16mm/c; mus doc/55m; cph: Miguel Ehrenberg, Gonzalo Infante, Mario Luna, Gaston Ocampo & Humberto Ríos |
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1985 |
Amor a la vuelta de la esquina/Love Around the Corner [Alberto Cortés] c |
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1987 |
El reajuste [Ariel Zúñiga] ?; 63m |
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1988 |
Una moneda en el aire/A Coin in the Air [Ariel Zúñiga] c |
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1988 |
Morir en el golfo/To Die in the Gulf [Alejandro Pelayo Rangel] c |
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1989 |
Intimidades en un cuarto de baño/Bathroom Intimacies [Jaime Humberto Hermosillo] c |
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1991 |
Cabeza de vaca/Shipwrecks [Nicolás Echevarría] c |
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1991 |
Vinaya [Josse De Pauw & Peter van Kraaij] c |
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1992 |
Cronos/Chronos/La invención de Cronos [Guillermo del Toro] c |
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1993 |
Dollar Mambo [Paul Leduc] c |
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1994 |
Desperado/El mariachi 2/Pistolero [Robert Rodriguez] c |
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1994 |
Four Rooms [seg #3 'The Misbehavers' dir by Robert Rodriguez] c; other ph: Rodrigo Garcia (#1), Phil Parmet (#2) & Andrzej Sekula (#4) |
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1995 |
Dream for an Insomniac [Tiffanie DeBartolo] b&w-c |
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1996 |
The Long Kiss Goodnight [Renny Harlin] s35/c; uncred addph: Ueli Steiger; uwph: Peter Romano |
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1996 |
From Dusk Till Dawn [Robert Rodriguez] c |
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1996 |
Spawn [Mark Dippé] c; 2uc: Jonathan Taylor |
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1997 |
Jackie Brown [Quentin Tarantino] c |
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1998 |
Stuart Little [Rob Minkoff] c; New York unit ph: Wally Pfister; 2uc: Mark Vargo & Christopher Faloona; vfx ph: Les Bernstien |
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2000 |
Spy Kids [Robert Rodriguez] c; aph: Dylan M. Gross; + small part |
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2000 |
El espinazo del diablo/The Devil’s Backbone [Guillermo del Toro] c |
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2000 |
Silencio roto/Broken Silence [Montxo Armendáriz] c |
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2001 |
Blade II [Guillermo del Toro] c; cph: Gabriel Beristáin |
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2001 |
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams [Robert Rodriguez] announced as doph, but replaced by Robert Rodriguez |
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2002 |
Imagining Argentina [Christopher Hampton] c |
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2003 |
Hellboy [Guillermo del Toro] c; miniature ph: Christopher Warren |
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2004 |
Zathura [: A Space Adventure] [Jon Favreau] c; 2uc: Enrique Chediak & Ueli Steiger; miniature ph: Les Bernstien |
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2004 |
Toothpaste [Ben Younger] c; short/16m |
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2005 |
El laberinto del fauno/Pan's Labyrinth [Guillermo del Toro] c |
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2006 |
Night at the Museum [Shawn Levy] c; 2uc: Larry Blanford & David Geddes; vfx ph: Dennis McHugh |
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[Middle] with actress Ayesha Takia & actor Siddharth "Blood Brothers" |
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2007 |
Blood Brothers [Vishal Bhardwaj] c; short/13m; ep of 4-part series on AIDS awareness; other ep: 'Migration' dir by Mira Nair, 'Prarambha/The Beginning' dir by Santosh Sivan & 'Positive' dir by Farhan Akhtar; prod Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
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2007 |
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army [Guillermo del Toro] c; 2uc: Stephen Jackson |
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2008 |
It Might Get Loud [Davis Guggenheim] HD+35mm-to-35mm/b&w-c; mus doc/97m; cph: Erich Roland; addph: James Mathers, Lee Daniel, Tami Reiker, Ivan Strasburg, a.o. |
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2008 |
What We Take... From Each Other [Scott Z. Burns] dv/c; short/4m; ep series 'Love at First Sight & Other Dangers' |
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2009 |
It's Complicated [Nancy Meyers] c; uncred 2uc (+ 2ud Santa Barbara); ph: John Toll |
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2009 |
The Resident/Invasion of Privacy [Antti Jokinen] s35/c |
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2009 |
The Hobbit: Part 1 [Guillermo del Toro (left prod in 2010); Peter Jackson] announced; replaced by ph Andrew Lesnie |
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2010 |
I Am Number Four [D.J. Caruso] s35-to-35mm (+ IMAX-70bu & D-Cinema)/c; uncred addph: Alex Nepomniaschy; aph: David B. Nowell & Michael Kelem; uwph Florida: Pete Romano |
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2010 |
Nicholas North [Antti Jokinen] pre-production |
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2011 |
Pacific Rim [Guillermo del Toro] RED Epic-to-D-Cinema (also 3-D version)/c; 2uc: Checco Varese; filmed 2011-12 |
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TELEVISION |
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1989 |
Trying Times [ep #8 'The Hit List' dir by Michael Lindsay-Hogg] 12-part series, 1987 & 1989; 2nd season, 1989; other ph: Ángel Goded, Henner Hofmann, Tony Kuhn & Tom Richmond; for PBS-tv |
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1993 |
The Cover Girl Murders [James A. Contner] tvm |
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1993 |
Lost Kingdoms of the Maya [Christine Weber] doc/60m; co-addph + ph re-creations; ph: Robert Elfstrom, Don Lenzer, a.o.; a 'National Geographic Special' |
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1993 |
The Cisco Kid [Luis Valdez] tvm |
MISCELLANEOUS |
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1973 |
Los que viven donde sopla el viento suave [Felipe Cazals; doc] c.asst; ph: Alexis Grivas & Ángel Goded |
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1979 |
CaboBlanco Where Legends Are Born... [J. Lee Thompson] co-prod asst; ph: Alex Phillips Jr. |
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1981 |
El Salvador: Another Vietnam [Glenn Silber & Teté Vasconcellos] 16mm/c; doc/53m; ph: Newton Thomas Sigel, a.o.; uses extracts from the doc 'Historias prohibidas de Pulgarcito/Forbidden Tales of Tom Thumb'; see Films (1980) |
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1981 |
Missing [Costa-Gavras] apprentice; ph: Ricardo Aronovich |
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2006 |
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa [Eric Darnell & Tom McGrath; anim] cinematography cons |