August 12, 2007
Bernal y Luna: Son guapos y son compasivos.
And that’s the extent of our pathetic grasp of Spanish. More to the point:
‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’ Stars Promote Rights
“Y Tu Mama Tambien” stars Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna said a gala dinner they are hosting Saturday will raise money to support human rights and shine light on poverty and injustice in Mexico.
The $300-a-plate meal in the capital will benefit Mexico’s Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights as well as Witness, an organization founded by singer Peter Gabriel that promotes the use of video and film to document human rights abuses.
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Luna and Garcia Bernal, who recently launched the Canana production company, also want to use documentaries to raise awareness about failures of the Mexican judicial system, including the unsolved murders of more than 300 women in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas.
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The actors, who starred in the 2001 road movie “Y Tu Mama Tambien,” have vocally backed other social and political causes such as Mexico City’s new law legalizing gay civil unions.
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