Mexican Director Fernando Frías de la Parra Nabs DGA Award Nomination for I'M NO LONGER HERE

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Mexican filmmaker Fernando Frías de la Parra was announced today as one of the nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director for 2020 at the 73rd annual DGA Awards presented by the Directors Guild of America, for his film I’m No Longer Here / Ya no estoy aquí.

Frías de la Parra will be competing for the DGA Award against Radha Blank (The Forty-Year-Old Version), Regina King (One Night in Miami). Darius Marder (Sound of Metal), and Florian Zeller (The Father). The winners will be announced on a virtual ceremony on Saturday, April 10.

Winner of the Best Film Award at the Morelia Film Festival and 11 Ariel Awards, Fernando Frías’s electrifying feature follows a street gang from Monterrey named “Los Terkos." Spending their days listening to slowed-down cumbia music, attending dance parties, and showing off their outfits, hairstyles, and gang alliances, the members call themselves Kolombianos for their mix of cholo culture with Colombian music. Ulises, their leader, tries to protect his friends from a quickly evolving drug-political war, but after a misunderstanding with a local cartel he’s forced to migrate to New York City. There he tries to assimilate, but when Ulises learns that his gang and the whole Kolombia culture is under threat, he questions his place in America and longs to return home.

 
 




 
 
 
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