Mother of jonas cuaron director
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Alfonso Cuarón Orozco was born on November 28th 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the army, so he settled for directing. He didn't receive his first camera until his twelfth birthday, and then immediately started to film everything he saw, showing it afterwards to everyone. In his teen years, films were his hobby. Sometimes he said to his mother he would go to a friend's home, when in fact he would go to the cinema. His ambition was to know every theatre in the city. Near his house there were two studios, Studios Churubusco and Studios 212. After finishing school, Cuarón decided to study cinema right away. He tried to study at C.C.C. (Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica) but wasn't accepted because at that time they weren't accepting students under twenty-four years old. His mother didn't support that idea of cinema, so he studied philosophy in the morni
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Jonas Cuaron on the Primal Instincts of ‘Gravity’
Even savvy industry veterans seem to think “Gravity” wrote itself. Not true. Jonas Cuaron talks about the cultural influences of his past, all of which fed into his co-writing the film with his father, Alfonso Cuaron.
The script contains each detail, from the teardrop floating in space to Ryan’s contact with people who don’t speak English. That sequence stems from Jonas Cuaron’s seven-minute short “Aningaaq,” which shows an Inuit fisherman receiving a distress call — the other side of the conversation.
His early goals
I was born in Mexico City. I lived there until I was 7, then we moved [his mother is writer-actress Mariana Elizondo] to a small town on the coast. When I was 15, I went to live with my Dad in New York and stayed there until now. I never thought I would go into film. I wanted to be a writer — prose or theater; my mom did a lot of theater in
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Alfonso Cuarón and son Jonás bound by words in ‘Gravity’
Being the son of an obsessive filmskapare means your life already has a destiny, whether intended or not. That was certainly the case for Jonás Cuarón, the eldest son of Mexican filmskapare Alfonso Cuarón.
Young Jonás spent weeks on his father’s first feature, 1991’s “Love in the Time of Hysteria.” He had a small role in his father’s second film, 1995’s “A Little Princess,” and attended school on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank. “He was so happy,” remembered Alfonso. “He was the only boy surrounded by 20 girls.”
Jonás remembers his father regaling him constantly with stories of the films he wanted to make. “He was probably practicing his pitches on me,” Jonás recalls now with a laugh.
It was a childhood rich in the intricacies of moviemaking. Yet Alfonso was surprised when Jonás turned his senior thesis from Vassar College into a feature film made entirely of still photographs and said he wanted to be a filmm