Packet 5: Tossup 5

Note to players: The answer is a first name with counterparts across languages, like “Peter,” “Pierre,” and “Pedro;” you may give any variation of the name in the languages used in the films. This is the first name of a punk teenager who, in a 1990 crime film set in Medellín, is said by the title to have “No Future.” (15[1])A cinematographer with this first name used Christmas lights that he dubbed the “Killer Pizza Lights” in a film adapted from a spy novel by Eileen Chang. This is the first name of the director of hyperlink (-5[1])films like Nine Lives, who is Claudia (-5[1])Sheinbaum’s (-5[1])brother-in-law and the son of a Nobel-winning author. (15[1])The DOP of Lust, Caution and 8 Mile (15[1])shares this first name with the (*) pseudonym used for editing jobs by the Coen brothers. (10[1])A cinematographer with (10[1])this first name shot films like Silence (10[1])and Brokeback Mountain as (10[1])part of his collaborations with Ang Lee and Martin Scorsese after breaking through in his native country with Amores perros. For 10 points, the Mexican cinematographer (-5[1])who shot Barbie has (-5[1])what first name and the surname Prieto? ■END■ (10[2]0[6])

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