Who or what is "El chivo"?

Who or what is "El chivo"?

Since before his birth, the family of the great Emmanuel Lubezki already had a various artist. This started with his grandmother from the side of his father, who escape from Russia during the Bolshevik revolution to go to Shanghai, China. His grandmothers wish of being an actress in Hollywood was very big, so because of her stubbornness, they tried to go to the U.S.A, where her wish would come true. Unfortunately, her dream wasn’t accomplished, so she decided to stay in Mexico, where her grandmother got married and formed a family. His father, Muni Lubezki, tried to accomplish her mother’s dream, but he became an actor, who is remembered for his roles in “Ambar”, “From Mesmer”, “With Love or Tea for Two”, and “Es hora de recuperar”.

At the age of five he got his very characteristic nickname of “El Chivo”, he tells that a friend from his school gave him the nickname, he never knew why, he just thought that his face looked like a goat, however, it was a type of trend or something very common because he had friends with nicknames of animals like: “tiburón(shark)”, “pollo(chicken)” or “cerdo(pig)”.

Emmanuel Lubezki since he was young had his goals very clear, because since he was a child saw a lot of movies, even if he didn’t understand what was happening, he says that in occasions he saw them without subtitles because the only thing that matter to him was the image, he remembers the Italian ones, like Fellini and Pasolini, but he also saw some Americans like Scorsese and Coppola.

When he grew up, Lubezki studied Cinematography and did his first movies here in Mexico like “Bandidos” or “Camino largo a Tijuana”, however, he was not satisfied with his work here in Mexico so he searched to produce movies in the USA, where he tells that he suffered a lot, when he arrived he didn't know English, especially on his first American film “Reality bites” where he realized that everything was very different, because when in Mexico he talked about the movie, in the USA he talked about where to park.

Nowadays “El Chivo” Lubezki is a person known for his movies like: “The Revenant”, “Gravity” and “Birdman”. He has won 3 Oscars consecutively and he is in the search for a fourth one, however, we can assume that the next one will be amazing because we know that Emmanuel Lubezki that always put all his efforts and feelings in his work.