"I never saw myself or my family or my friends up on the screen in animation," Gutierrez said. "I kept waiting for the Latina princess to show up, and she never did."
Gutierrez embarked on a 14-year journey to make "The Book of Life," out in U.S. theatres on Friday, drawing on Mexican art and wooden puppets to animate a colourful love story rooted in the Mexican Day of the Dead festivities.
"The Book of Life," a co-production of Reel FX Creative Studios and Twenty-First Century Fox Inc's Twentieth Century Fox studios, follows childhood friends . . .
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