Guillermo Navarro

Guillermo Navarro (* 1955 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican cameraman and television director .

Life

Guillermo Navarro was born in Mexico City in 1950, where he grew up and studied sociology at the National Autonomous University of Mexicostarted. At the age of 13 he turned to photography and later worked as a photographer, among other things, for the covers of music albums and also worked in the fashion industry. Through an assignment placed by his sister who worked as a film producer, Navarro found pleasure in working as a cameraman. After one year of professional experience as a camera assistant, however, he had problems to gain a foothold in the domestic film industry and in the early 1970s he mainly worked on the production of documentaries, which he also supervised as a director. His professional success only came when he moved to Europe, where he met the Argentine cameraman Ricardo Aronovich in Paris , in whom he found his mentor.

In the mid-1980s Navarro returned to Mexico, where he began to work as a cameraman in feature film productions. In 1992 he made the acquaintance of director Guillermo del Toro , who hired him for his horror film Cronos , for which the cameraman was awarded a year later at the Cannes Film Festival . First engagements in Hollywood followed a year later . In 1995, Navarro was responsible for the pictures of Robert Rodriguez 's hit action thriller Desperado , the second part of the American director's El Mariachi trilogy . Both Del Toro and Rodriguez worked with the Mexican repeatedly. The greatest success so far came in 2006 with Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth . The fantasy drama, set in Spain after the civil war in 1944 , was a success with both critics and audiences and brought Navarro to victory in the Best Camera category at the 2007 Academy Awards , where he beat his favorite compatriot Emmanuel Lubezki ( Children of Men ) triumphed.

Navarro has also worked as a television director since 2014 , staging several episodes of the Hannibal television series, among others . In 2017 he made his first feature film with Cocaine Godmother .