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Carlos García Agraz presented a special screening of Mi querido Tom Mix at the 16th FICM

Marco Mejía @MiqkelMejia

As part of the special national program of the sixteenth edition of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), the outdoor screening of the film Mi Querido Tom Mix (1991) was held in Plaza Benito Juárez, and included the presence of its director Carlos García Agraz, who is the current the director of the Churubusco Studies and Jury of the Michoacán Section for the Short Film Screenplay.

Daniela Michel, founder and director of the festival, presented the filmmaker, whom she called a "beloved and admired teacher". Carlos García told an anecdote about the film and Gabriel García Márquez, who was part of the production company that developed the film: "It is a pleasure to be in Morelia and present a film that's timeless. It was the first work by Gabriel García Márquez's production company, and at first, it was planned as a series with various terror and love stories, but they realized that the love story gave much more than just half an hour and thus Mi Querido Tom Mix was born".

Before the screening, the Mexican director bragged about the film being restored and praised the film's protagonists and their performances: "This is a restored project, it was changed to another format for its conservation, so you'll see it as if it had just been filmed. Besides, the cast is made up of two important pillars, the actress Ana Ofelia Murguía and the Argentinean actor Federico Luppi, who later became an insignia for Guillermo del Toro".

Mi Querido Tom Mix takes place in a small town in the north of Mexico in the 1930s, where the placid life of Joaquina, a kind old maid whose thirst for adventure takes her to the only cinema in town every afternoon to watch the series of episodes screened. Her favorite is Tom Mix, the mythical cowboy of Hollywood silent movies. When a gang threatens the town's peace, Joaquina will write to the only hero that she knows can save them.