Mexican cinema is a power on the rise that deserves support and protection, participants said during the Ariel awards gala, in which Alonso Ruizpalacios' "Güeros" took home best picture and four other awards.
Several of the prize recipients and the president of the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences, Blanca Guerra, called for greater government support for cinema operators and expressed their opposition to budget cuts.
At the start of Wednesday night's awards show, Guerra said a legally mandated 10 percent screen quota for Mexican cinema "is no longer sufficient" and called on President Enrique Peña . . .
