Nicolás Echevarría

Nicolás Echevarría
Nicolás Echevarría (left) receiving Arts and Literature National Prize 2017.
Born	(1947-08-08) 8 August 1947 (age 76) Nayarit, Mexico
Occupation(s)	Film director Cinematographer
Years active	1973-present

Nicolás Echevarría (born 8 August 1947) is a Mexican film director and cinematographer. He has directed over 20 films since 1973. His 1991 film Cabeza de Vaca was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival.^[1]

Echevarría draws on his Mexican heritage in early films. He discusses his observations of Mexican spirituality in an interview with Betsy Sussler: “I have worked with about ten groups of Indians in Mexico, and the things that I have come across most often—related to all of them is this: there are two worlds, one belongs to everyday life—to man, we get up, we take a shower, we think about what we eat for breakfast, what we’ll do for the day . . . Now there is another world, it could be called the Sacred Space.” He lived with the Huichol people for two years and made three films with them. Echevarría features a Mexican Shaman woman in his 1978 documentary María Sabina, mujer espíritu.^[2]

Selected filmography

• María Sabina: mujer espíritu (1978)
• Poetas campesinos (1980)
• Niño Fidencio, el taumaturgo de Espinazo (1981)
• Cabeza de Vaca (1991)
• Vivir mata (2001)
• Eco de la montaña (2014)^[3]

References

External links

• Nicolás Echevarría at IMDb