Arguably one of the world's best directors of photography and the best Mexican cinematographer of his generation, award-winning Emmanuel Lubezki shot to prominence with the success of "Like Water for Chocolate" (1991), directed by Alfonso Arau and has gone on to a career that has encompassed independent films as well as mainstream Hollywood fare.Lubezki developed an early interest in still photography and after majoring in film at Mexico's National University entered the local industry in the late 1980s as producer of classmate Luis Estrada's debut "El Camino Largo a Tijuana" (1989). Estrada
