'Bala' is Mexico Oscar entry

MEXICO CITY -- Helmer Gerardo Naranjo's narco drama "Miss Bala" is Mexico's selection for entry into the the Oscars' foreign-language film category as well as the foreign-film-in-the-The the spanish language language-language category for Spain's Goya film honours. The announcement came Thursday from Mexico's Academy of Film Arts and Sciences. Very good can be a first for Naranjo, who bowed the pic in Cannes in May, and indie Canana Films, founded by thesps Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal and handled by Pablo Cruz. "Miss Bala," that's presently in Mexican theaters, relates the storyplot from the beauty full wanabe forced in to a nightmarish arena of spiraling violence and corruption. It absolutely was composed by Naranjo and Mauricio Katz. "This means a massive step for Canana after seven years of doing films, to finally be recognized through the Mexican Academy," Cruz mentioned, adding that Fox is arranging a U.S. release for that month of the month of january. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com