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Director Alfonso Cuaron stands beside a film camera, gesturing with his hand, on the set of Children of Men (2006), with another crew member in the background.
Alfonso Cuarón Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón on the set of Children of Men (2006).

Alfonso Cuarón

Mexican director and screenwriter
Also known as: Alfonso Cuarón Orozco
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Alfonso Cuarón (born November 28, 1961, Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican director and screenwriter who earned an international reputation for fluid storytelling in a versatile range of genres. Cuarón studied film at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (a school within the National Autonomous University of Mexico) but was expelled for having helped create, as part of a class project, a film that was controversially shot in English instead of Spanish. Though Cuarón feared...

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