Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gregory Nava (born April 10, 1949 in San Diego, California) is a film director, producer and screenplay writer, of Mexican and Basque heritage. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gregory Nava, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia .
Known For
Complete Filmography
John Sayles and Gregory Nava
2024
as Themself
“In this conversation, recorded for the Criterion Collection in Los Angeles in 2023, filmmaker Gregory Nava talks with director John Sayles about the ...
Life Itself
2014
as Self - Filmmaker
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor...
Bordertown
2007
Screenplay, Director, Producer
American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. Th...
Frida
2002
Screenplay
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
2002
Documentary about the presence of Latin American culture and actors in American movies.
The American Tapestry
2000
Director, Producer
Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major subjects of th...
Why Do Fools Fall In Love
1998
Director
In the mid-80s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager, Morris Levy. One is an L.A. singer, former...
Selena
1997
Director, Screenplay
In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young d...
My Family
1995
Director, Writer
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los A...
A Time of Destiny
1988
Director, Writer
World War II provides the setting for a melodramatic tale of love and revenge.
El Norte
1983
Director, Story, Screenplay
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the drea...
The End of August
1981
Writer
In the turn of the century South, a woman feels unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood and has an affair with a younger man. Later, the woman leaves h...
The Haunting of M.
1979
Cinematography
This ghost story, set at the turn of the century, centers on the plight of elderly dowager Marianna, who is tormented by the alleged specter of a youn...
The Confessions of Amans
1976
Editor, Writer, Director
In medieval Spain, an young, traveling philosopher tragically falls in love with his pupil, when he is hired by an uneducated Lord to tutor his beauti...
The Journal of Diego Rodriguez Silva
1972
Director
Director Gregory Nava's award-winning student film.