Gregory NavaFilmography

Born:: April 10, 1949 in San Diego, CA
Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Cinematographer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Filmmaker Gregory Nava is a director with an uncanny knack for capturing the epic drama of ordinary lives. Educated at the U.C.L.A. film school, Nava made an auspicious debut in the mid-'70s with Confessions of Amans. Filmed on a low budget with a script written by himself and his wife, Ann Thomas...Read More

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Bordertown

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Maya Zapata, Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Sonia Braga, Martin Sheen

Synopsis: The celebrated Latino director Gregory Nava (American Family) helmed, scripted, and co-produced (with star Jennifer Lopez) Bordertown - a suspense thriller with an A-list Hispanic cast. Lopez portrays Lauren Adrian, an American correspondent from a Chicago newspaper, who longs to cover the U.S. Read More

2007
Frida

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas

Synopsis: After being attached to a number of actors, directors, and producers, this long-gestating biography of one of Mexico's most prominent, iconoclastic painters reaches the screen under the guiding hand of producer/star Salma Hayek. Hayek ages some 30 years onscreen as she charts Frida Kahlo's life Read More

10/25/02
American Family [TV Series]

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Edward James Olmos, Raquel Welch, Constance Marie, Sonia Braga, Esai Morales

Synopsis: Beyond the fact that it was seen on PBS, the dramatic series American Family bore no relation to the classic docudrama series of the 1970s. Created by filmmaker Gregory Nava, the series focused on a "typical" Latino family in East L.A., and as such was the only program on "regular" TV to feature Read More

2001
The American Tapestry

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Gregory Nava weaves together a series of first hand accounts of the immigrant experience in America for this emotionally powerful, unabashedly-patriotic documentary. Polish Jew Murray Schneider recalls the exultant joy he felt when he was finally reuniting with his family in Ellis Island, while Read More

2000
Why Do Fools Fall In Love

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon, Larenz Tate, Paul Mazursky

Synopsis: Gregory Nava directed this biographical drama on the brief but intense life of singer Frankie Lymon who stayed with the popular Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers group only for a year. Lymon was 13 years old when the group erupted from radios and jukeboxes with their 1956 hit, Why Do Fools Fall in Read More

8/28/98
Selena

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jennifer Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Rebecca Lee Meza, Jon Seda, Constance Marie, Jacob Vargas

Synopsis: Selena Quintanilla was a major figure in Tejano music, a Grammy-winning recording artist, a beloved star in the American Southwest and Mexico, and seemed poised to cross over into mainstream popularity on the U.S. pop charts when she was murdered on March 31, 1995 by the president of her fan club. Read More

1997
My Family

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Elpidia Carrillo, Jenny Gago, Esai Morales, Eduardo Lopez Rojas, Jimmy Smits, Jacob Vargas, Edward James Olmos

Synopsis: Featuring Jennifer Lopez in her first major big-screen role, Gregory Nava's My Family traces three generations of the Sanchez's, a Mexican-American family living in East Los Angeles. Beginning in the 1930s, the film outlines the struggles faced by Jose (Jacob Vargas) and Maria (Lopez) as a Read More

1995
A Time of Destiny

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: William Hurt, Timothy Hutton, Melissa Leo, Stockard Channing, Megan Follows

Synopsis: Martin (William Hurt) and Jack (Timothy Hutton) are World War II soldiers who go from being army buddies to bitter enemies during the war in this uneven melodrama. Not realizing they are brothers-in-law, Martin eventually learns that Jack is married to his sister Josie (Melissa Leo). On their Read More

4/22/88
El Norte

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Zaide Silvia Gutierrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Alicia del Lago, Eraclio Zepeda

Synopsis: El Norte is a realistic picture of both the Guatemalan government's oppression of the Quiche Indians and the hard life of illegal immigrants in the United States. After the Guatemalan army destroys their village of San Pedro, two teenage Quiche Mayan Indian siblings journey north (hence El Norte) Read More

1983
The End of August

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Based on Kate Chopin's moving novel The Awakening, and set in the early 1900s, this drama chronicles the struggle of a young wife to escape the oppressing conventions of society and live life to the fullest. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
The Haunting of M

Crew: Associate Producer, Cinematographer

Actors: Sheelagh Gilbey, Nini Pitt, Evie Garratt, Alan Hay, Jo Scott Matthews

Synopsis: This slow-paced but impeccably stylish ghost story, set at the turn of the century, centers on the plight of elderly dowager Marianna (Sheelagh Gilbey), who is tormented nightly by the alleged specter of a young man roaming the corridors of her decrepit estate. After spotting a face in an old Read More

1980
The Confessions of Amans

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: William Bryant

Synopsis: This costume drama was shot on location in Spain. It tells the story of a traveling student of philosophy who is hired by a lord to tutor his wife. Unfortunately, the teacher soon falls in love with this student. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1976

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Gregory NavaFilmography

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Why Do Fools Fall In Love

Selena

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A Time of Destiny

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The End of August

The Haunting of M

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