Years active 1997–present Ex-spouse Checco Varese Education Columbia University | Role Film director Name Patricia Riggen | |
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Born June 2, 1970 (age 53) ( 1970-06-02 ) Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico Occupation Film director, film producer and screenwriter Awards ALMA Award for Special Achievement, Ariel Award for Best Short Fiction Movies The 33, Under the Same Moon, Girl in Progress, Lemonade Mouth, Revolucion Similar People Lou Diamond Phillips, Kate del Castillo, Rodrigo Santoro, Adrian Alonso Barona, Juliette Binoche | ||
Upcoming movie Miracles from Heaven | ||
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Patricia Riggen (born June 2, 1970) is a Mexican film director. She best known for directing the 2007 film Under the Same Moon and the 2011 Disney Channel original film Lemonade Mouth.
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- Director patricia riggen la misma luna stephen holt show
- the 33 director patricia riggen urges female filmmakers to speak up
- Early life and career beginnings
- Directing career
- Personal life
- Filmography
- References
the 33 director patricia riggen urges female filmmakers to speak up
Early life and career beginnings
Riggen was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco. While in her home country, she gained experience in journalism and writing for documentaries. In Guadalajara, Riggen obtained a degree in communication sciences, worked as a journalist, then later moved to New York City, where she received her Master's degree in directing and screenwriting at Columbia University. While attending Columbia, she directed two short films The Cornfield (2002) and Family Portrait (2004), a documentary, the former film won a number of film festival awards.
Riggen found her way into writing and producing film, though she never thought she would end up as a director, comparing the chances of landing a career as a director to the chances of landing a career as an astronaut – slim to none.
Unhappy with producing, Riggen moved to New York to pursue a career in writing. She found herself as a director after directing one exercise.
Directing career
In 2007, Under the Same Moon, Riggen's first major film was released, starring Kate Del Castillo and America Ferrera. Riggen partnered up with writer and producer Ligiah Villabobos for the creation of La Misma Luna. Riggen and Villabobos are both Mexican-born but relocated to the United States, and after taking many years to embrace their careers, they became extremely passionate about the work they produced.
Funding for the binational film La Misma Luna, which was started in an American studio before Riggen made the decision to direct it independently, was done through both a fund from the Mexican government, and American financers. La Misma Luna was very well received in 2007 at the Sundance festival.
In 2010, she was chosen to direct the 2011 Disney Channel original film Lemonade Mouth.
She has continued to direct feature films, with her next two being: Revolución (2010) and Girl in Progress (originally titled Ansiedad) starring Eva Mendes and Patricia Arquette. The film was released in 2012.
Riggen's next film was The 33, a movie based on the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. The movie was first released in Chile in August 2015, coinciding with the five year anniversary of the mine collapse. It was then released throughout Latin America before going to theaters in the U. S. and the rest of the world in November 2015.
When approached in 2010 to direct The 33, Riggen recounted her satisfaction that a woman would direct a film with such masculine subject matter. The 33 was shot in the Atacama Desert in Chile, as well as two mines in Columbia. Filmed in real salt mines over 35 days for 14 hour days 6 days a week, Riggen’s goal was to have the cast and crew understand what being a miner is like.
In 2016 she completed the film Miracles from Heaven with Jennifer Garner, Queen Latifah, and Eugenio Derbez, a Christian contemporary story based on the book of the same title, recounting the illness and miraculous recovery of a young girl in Texas.
Personal life
Riggen currently lives in Los Angeles. She is married to cinematographer Checco Varese, with whom she has a daughter.