Mexican Culture Is Focus of Pixar Film Called 'Coco' Mexico News Daily
go to original December 11, 2016

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The latest film from Pixar Animation Studios is described by director Lee Unkrich as “a love letter to Mexico.”

Called Coco, the film is about Mexican traditions and is set in the November festivities of Day of the Dead, or Día de Muertos, and 12-year-old Miguel and his journey to the Land of the Dead in search of his own heritage and history.

“We love Mexico and Mexicans, and . . . I think this is a great opportunity to do something good, to send a good message out to the world about Mexico,” said Unkrich, who directed Toy Story 3, Pixar’s most successful film yet.

But he noted that his movie, scheduled for release in November next year, should not be considered a political product.

Rather, the filmmaker’s intention was to “celebrate the diversity of Mexican culture with a positive sheen.”

Unkrich and his team drew inspiration for the two main parallel settings of their story from real-life locations in Mexico: the city of Oaxaca became Santa Cecilia, the land of the living, while Guanajuato became an imaginary Land of the Dead, “a dazzlingly vibrant, stacked metropolis.”

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