Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna Co-Producing Doc on Art Group ASCO With Exile Content (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAnna Marie de la Fuente Mexico’s most bankable stars, Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, have teamed up with L.A. and Miami-based Exile Content to produce Travis Gutiérrez Senger’s documentary on the groundbreaking art group, “ASCO: Without Permission.”The documentary chronicles the Los Angeles based avant-garde art group ASCO during the 1970s and ‘80s.
Melding activism and art, they challenged Latinx representation in the art world, politics, and Hollywood through their provocative performance art, photography, video and muralism.García Bernal and Luna will serve as executive producers with their production company La Corriente del Golfo producing alongside Vancouver-based North of Now and Gutiérrez Senger’s Asa Nisi Masa Films, in association with Exile Content.
ASCO is described to have “pioneered avant-garde tactics to respond to issues of racism, representation, and police brutality that were affecting the Chicano community in Los Angeles.”“Where would we be without the pioneers that irrupt on a scene unsolicited, out of passion and courage?
ASCO represents a unique moment for the Latino culture,” García Bernal said, adding: “They made themselves heard and that is why today we are a voice in the U.S.; It’s imperative to have this documentary as a piece of our history.”“Since I learned about them, ASCO came off as a collective that amused and defied themselves at the same time.
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