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Maya Zapata has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Under the Same Moon.
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Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
Dir. Patricia Riggen · With Adrian Alonso, Kate del Castillo, Eugenio Derbez

as Hiedra del Bosque / Poison Ivy (voice) · Voice
In the time of the Aztec empire, tragedy strikes Yohualli Coatl when his father is murdered by Spanish conquistadors. To warn King Moctezuma and his high priest, Yoka, of imminent danger, Yohualli escapes to Tenochtitlán. There, he trains in the temple of the bat god Tzinacan with his mentor, developing equipment and weaponry to confront the Spanish invasion and avenge his father’s death. Along the way, he encounters key figures like the fierce Jaguar Woman and the conquistador Hernán Cortés.
Dir. Juan Jose Meza-Leon · With Horacio García Rojas, Álvaro Morte, Omar Chaparro
Dir. Dariela Pérez Hernández, Alejandro Aimetta, David Jasqui · With Diana Simán, Sofía Lama, Maya Zapata

American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.
Dir. Gregory Nava · With Jennifer Lopez, Martin Sheen, Antonio Banderas