Director Roger Ross Williams ‘Stalked’ Gael García Bernal for Sundance Gay Wrestler Drama ‘Cassandro’

In 2015, Oscar- and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Roger Ross Williams decided to make his first narrative feature, “Cassandro,” which is screening in the Sundance Premieres. At the time, Williams was in El Paso, Texas, working on a short documentary about the real-life Cassandro, a Mexican, openly gay, cross-dressing Lucha Libre wrestler. “From the first day, I was just blown away by Cassandro’s inner spirit and joy,” Williams says. “That night in El Paso, we went to a tequila bar after shooting, and I told (the production team), ‘This is my first fiction film.’” Williams initially thought that the journey from… Read Full Article