Ripstein's '600 Miles' Selected as Mexico Oscar Entry John Hecht - The Hollywood Reporter
go to original September 18, 2015

Trailer 600 Miles: Tim Roth plays an ATF agent who is kidnapped by a Mexican arms-smuggling gang (Ping Entertainment)

Mexican writer-director Gabriel Ripstein is having quite a run with his feature-film debut 600 Miles.

Earlier this year, the arms-smuggling thriller featuring Tim Roth won best first work at the Berlin International Film Festival. Later it nabbed best Mexican picture at the Guadalajara film fest in Ripstein's native Mexico.

Now it has a chance to pull off what no other Mexican movie has done: bring home an Oscar for best foreign-language picture.

Since the mid-1950s, Mexico has received eight Academy Award nominations in the category, but has never won. The most recent Mexican films to land Oscar nominations were Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's drama Biutiful in 2010 and Guillermo del Toro's dark fantasy Pan's Labyrinth in 2006.

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