Jonás Cuarón arrives for a second time to SXSW on Tuesday with his latest feature film Campeón Gabacho, based on the 2015 Aura Xilonen novel about a young man who crosses the Rio Grande after a harsh reality in Mexico to face a wild life in a New York City Latino barrio.
Liborio (played by Juan Daniel García Treviño) is thrust into a world of gangs but also zany characters such as a tabloid reporter (Rosario Dawson), a cantankerous bookstore owner (Eddie Marsan), and an older man (Rubén Blades) who runs a makeshift orphanage. He also finds love.
Through it all, Liborio learns he can take a punch, and withstand a fight against adversity in his survival as an outsider. He is thrown into the world of boxing after a promoter spots him taking out the thugs who jumped him. The community begins to look to Liborio as an
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