The International Cinematographers Guild will hand its Distinguished Filmmaker Award to Mexican cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto at this year’s Emerging Cinematographer Awards.
Born and raised in Mexico, Prieto was at the center of the early 2000’s renaissance of Mexican cinema, working on now-celebrated features like Babel, 21 Grams, and Amores Perros with Alejandro González Iñárritu.
Prieto’s next project–his feature film directorial debut–is an adaptation of the novel Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo, one of the most revered Mexican novels of the 20th century.
Also a frequent collaborator of screen legend Martin Scorsese, Prieto has been nominated for four Academy Awards for his work on Killers of the Flower Moon, The Irishman, Silence, and Brokeback Mountain.
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