There’s no such thing as an ordinary mom.

Take a short flight or a scenic drive from Mexico City and you’ll find yourself in the oceanside city of Alvarado in Veracruz, where your first stop should be Punta Roca Partida.

CICLOPE Festival has announced that this July, they will be launching a new regional event dedicated to Latin American companies and a Latin American audience.

This week marks the Mexico premiere of Jonás Cuarón’s thriller, Desierto.

We recently embarked on a trip to discover Tlacotalpan a little known corner of the state recently declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Rodrigo Urbano is one of our most trusted Assistant Directors, working with us on projects from Corona to Bimbo to Levi’s (twice!) to HP to FIFA to Motorola to a music video for Röyksopp and Robyn.

We are excited to welcome the talented Bastian Glaessner to The Lift’s director roster.

“Rule Yourself,” a short film from director Martin de Thurah out of Epoch, for Under Armour and with Droga5 New York is one to put on your must-watch list.

There’s an impending shark attack and the lifeguard is rendered speechless; it’s everyone’s worst nightmare.

We sat down with producers Fuad Abed and Magali Sagarra to talk about what it’s actually like to shoot here in Mexico, why your expectations might be false and some of the challenges that arise along the way.

While it’s probably clear by now that you can shoot Mexico for just about anywhere in the world (see any number of location fake-outs here, here, and here), there’s an integral part of that that we acknowledge and expertly consider in every job we do, which is casting.

What a week of virtual and augmented reality we had here in Mexico.

Step (or fly) a few hundred feet above ground and you have astonishingly breath-taking views of our fair city.

Framestore is an extraordinary creative studio behind some of the best visual effects, production, direction and post-production this industry (and others) have to offer.

We are excited to announce that the nomadic version of the festival, Ciclope Tour, is making its debut in Mexico City next month.

This month we are highlighting some of the best and brightest from the UK. So it serves to reason that we would want to talk about the directors that bring an insane amount of talent with them on every job they do.