Canana Films

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Canana Films
Company typePrivate
Genre Films
Founded2005
Founder
Headquarters
Mexico City
,
Mexico
Website canana.net

Canana Films is a Mexican film and television production company and former distributor. Founded in 2005, Canana is focused on Latin American-focused projects in Spanish and English and became one of Mexico's leading producer-distributors during the late 2000s/early 2010s. [1] [2] [3] Canana has been inactive since 2020.

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Among their best known productions are Cary Joji Fukunaga's Sin nombre (2009), the action thriller Miss Bala (2011) and its 2019 American adaptation, the Oscar-nominated drama No (2012), the comedy Rudo y Cursi (2006), and the biopic Cesar Chavez (2014).

Profile

Canana was founded in 2005 by Mexican actors Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna and producer Pablo Cruz. [4] García Bernal and Luna departed the company in 2018, with Cruz and Arturo Sampson providing leadership. [5] García Bernal and Luna subsequently founded their studio La Corriente del Golfo. [5] Cruz went on to co-found the international production studio El Estudio in 2020. [6]

In 2005, they partnered with Focus Features for worldwide film rights. [4] Beginning in 2007, Canana began distributing films in Mexico focusing on both promoting Mexican and international independent film around the country. [7] [8] The company "pioneered upscale VOD, genre pic and indie 3D movie distribution in Mexico." [9]

2010 was an important year for Canana: they produced their first commercial hit, Abel directed by Luna, and significantly ramped up their film distribution. [8] That same year, it joined Golden Phoenix Productions to jointly produce a number of television documentaries about the unsolved murders of around three hundred women in the border city of Ciudad Juárez. [10] In 2011, they made their first big television deal with Netflix picking up their original series Soy tu fan. [11]

In 2012, a new global deal was made with IM Global, launching the joint venture Mundial to promote worldwide sales of Latin American movies. [12] [13] In 2013, Canana joined Participant Media's five-year production deal Participant PanAmerica; [14] their first project was the film No starring García Bernal which was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. [15] Also in 2013, the company launch a branded content division. [2]

Canana has had multiple collaborations with directors like Mariana Chenillo and Gerardo Naranjo, among others.

Filmography

Adapted from company website and IMDb. [16] [17]

Films

Short films

Television

Film distribution

Canana distributed a number of international films to Mexican theaters, particularly during the late 2000s. [7] List adapted from the company website and IMDb. [16] [17]

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References

  1. ↑ "¿QUIÉNES SOMOS?". Canana (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-07.
  2. 1 2 Hopewell, John (2013-11-13). "Canana Bows Branded Content Division (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2022-11-07.
  3. ↑ Hopewell, John (2016-05-15). "New Generation of Mexican Filmmakers Reaches Out to Europe, U.S." Variety. Retrieved 2022-11-07.
  4. 1 2 Hecht, John (2007-11-16). "Canana Films aims to keep it real". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2022-11-07.
  5. 1 2 Hecht, John (2018-03-26). "Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal Exit Their Own Production Company". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2022-11-07.
  6. ↑ Hopewell, John; Fuente, Anna Marie de la (2020-02-21). "Pablo Cruz, Enrique Lopez Lavigne, Diego Suarez Chialvo Launch El Estudio (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2022-11-07.
  7. 1 2 O'Boyle, Michael (2007-03-22). "Canana digs distribution". Variety. Retrieved 2022-11-07.
  8. 1 2 Young, James (2010-11-20). "Mexico's Canana makes arthouse inroads". Variety. Retrieved 2022-11-07.
  9. ↑ Hopewell, John (2012-05-28). "Canana takes 'Hunt,' 'No,' 'Swan'". Variety. Retrieved 2022-11-07.
  10. ↑ "Two Film Production Companies Plan to Fund and Produce Documentary Films in Mexico". 2010-05-20. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
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  14. ↑ Hopewell, John (2013-02-07). "Participant PanAmerica launches". Variety. Retrieved 2022-11-07.
  15. ↑ McNary, Dave (2013-04-29). "Gael Garcia Bernal Stars in First Pic From Participant PanAmerica". Variety. Retrieved 2022-11-07.
  16. 1 2 "CINE". Canana (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-07.
  17. 1 2 "With Canana Films (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-11-07.
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