Olallo Rubio
{{short description|Mexican filmmaker and broadcaster}}
Olallo Rubio is a Mexican filmmaker and broadcaster. He is known for his documentaries So, What's Your Price?, Gimme the Power and Ilusión Nacional, and the feature film This Is Not a Movie
Career
Rubio's career began in radio at XHDL-FM.{{cite news|url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/158059.html|title=Radioactivo no desaparece: Olallo Rubio|work=El Universal|date=2003-07-17|accessdate=2014-07-23|language=Spanish}} His first film, So, What's Your Price?, a documentary film critical of consumerism, premiered at the 2007 Guadalajara International Film Festival.{{cite news|url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/411640.html|title=Estrenará Olallo Rubio película en festival tapatío|work=El Universal|date=2007-03-11|accessdate=2014-07-23|language=Spanish}} His next film, This Is Not a Movie, stars Edward Furlong as a man who grapples with existential questions during the end of the world. It premiered at the Morelia International Film Festival in 2010 and had a budget of $3 million.{{cite news|url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/espectaculos/100962.html|title=Olallo Rubio estrena su primera película de ficción|last=Huerta|first=Cesar|work=El Universal|date=2010-10-21|accessdate=2014-07-22|language=Spanish}}{{cite news|url=http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/01/28/espectaculos/a09n1esp|title=Esta no es una película, sátira de la política intervencionista de EU, afirma Olallo Rubio|last=Bárcenas|first=Arturo Cruz|work=La Jornada|date=2011-01-28|accessdate=2014-07-22|language=Spanish}} Gimme the Power, released just before the 2012 Mexican general election,{{cite web|url=http://twitchfilm.com/2014/02/la-ilusion-nacional-trailer-olallo-rubio-brings-a-soccer-doc-prior-the-fifa-world-cup.html|title=LA ILUSIÓN NACIONAL Trailer: Olallo Rubio Brings A Soccer Doc Prior The FIFA World Cup|last=Garcia|first=Eric Ortiz|work=Twitch Film|date=2014-02-05|accessdate=2014-07-23|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724131703/http://twitchfilm.com/2014/02/la-ilusion-nacional-trailer-olallo-rubio-brings-a-soccer-doc-prior-the-fifa-world-cup.html|archivedate=2014-07-24}} is a rockumentary about the Mexican band Molotov that is also critical of Mexican politics.{{cite news|url=http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2012/05/31/espectaculos/a08n1esp|title=Gimme The Power, recuento de la historia de las resistencias en México|last=Caballero|first=Jorge|work=La Jornada|date=2012-05-31|accessdate=2014-07-23|language=Spanish}} His latest film, released in 2014 just prior to the 2014 FIFA World Cup, is Ilusión Nacional, a documentary about football in Mexico.{{cite web|url=http://twitchfilm.com/2014/03/review-ilusion-nacional-little-more-than-a-recap-of-mexicos-history-in-the-world-cup.html|title=Review: ILUSIÓN NACIONAL, Little More Than A Recap Of Mexico's History In The World Cup|last=Garcia|first=Eric Ortiz|work=Twitch Film|date=2014-03-28|accessdate=2014-07-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809065512/http://twitchfilm.com/2014/03/review-ilusion-nacional-little-more-than-a-recap-of-mexicos-history-in-the-world-cup.html|archive-date=2014-08-09|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/espectaculos/2014/olallo-rubio-ilusion-nacional-998099.html|title=Olallo Rubio cumple un sueño con Ilusión Nacional|work=El Universal|date=2014-03-25|accessdate=2014-07-23|language=Spanish}}
Filmography
- So, What's Your Price? (2007)
- This Is Not a Movie (2010)
- Gimme the Power (2012)
- Ilusión Nacional (2014)
References
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External links
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Category:Mexican documentary film directors
Category:Mexican documentary film producers
Category:Mexican radio presenters
Category:Mexican screenwriters
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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