Rodrigo Prieto On The Story Behind His Directorial Debut ‘Pedro Páramo’ & Why He Was Offended By “Inauthentic” Mexican Portrayal In ‘Emilia Pérez’ — Camerimage
deadline.comRodrigo Prieto was on double duty at Camerimage. This year the veteran Camerimage Golden Frog winner sat on the international competition jury alongside Cate Blanchett.
Away from official jury duties, however, Prieto was around town screening and promoting Pedro Páramo, the thrilling and elusive film he has directed for Netflix.
Pedro Páramo is Prieto’s directorial feature debut. Born and raised in Mexico, Prieto is best known as the DoP who lensed a series of now-celebrated features that shaped the early 2000’s renaissance of Mexican cinema like Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel, 21 Grams, and Amores Perros.
Prieto is now widely considered one of contemporary Hollywood’s most trusted and in-demand cinematographers. In fact, much of the prep on Pedro Páramo took place while Prieto was photographing two of last year’s biggest movies, Greta Gerwig’s existential hit Barbie and Martin Scorsese’s Osage epic Killers Of The Flower Moon. “I was shooting Barbie at the time, so I’d be in production on that film while I was constantly re-reading the novel [Pedro Páramo] and essays written about it,” Prieto told us of the balancing act he had to perfect to get Pedro Páramo over the line.
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