Latinos in entertainment

August 20, 2008 Two years after Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu took the year-end awards circuits by storm with "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Babel," and a year after they inked a $100 million deal with Universal to produce five films under their Cha Cha Cha banner, opportunities for other Latino filmmakers -- both veterans and those relatively new to the scene -- have been on the rise. [...] while some are using those opportunities to address issues dear to Hispanic moviegoers, others are more concerned with impressing audiences of all kinds. Even the most quintessentially Mexican of filmmakers, writer-turned-director Guillermo Arriaga -- who began his career working alongside Inarritu telling stories unique to life in Mexico City -- is making a film about a non-Latino mother and daughter working through their family issues in his directorial debut, "The Burning Plain."

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