Los Javis reflect on Mexico City stay and film La Bola Negra, Digi Mart USA News (Toronto, Canada): Spanish directors Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, known as Los Javis, describe themselves as tireless advocates for the LGBT+ community and sincere admirers of Mexican hospitality. They recalled with deep affection their long stay in Mexico City about a decade ago.
Ambrossi and Calvo spent a couple of months in the Mexican capital in 2015 staging the play La Llamada. “We really liked what happened in Mexico, not only for what we did there, but because we made great friends and had great moments.
We went out partying, we did a play, we got to know the city quite a bit: everyone was very cordial, very friendly,” Ambrossi said in an interview.
Calvo recalled that they were living a very different personal situation at the time but adapted well. “We understood the rhythm of the city, we rode the metro, we walked and walked, and we ate a lot,” he said.
Los Javis, who run the production company Suma Content, were in a relationship for 13 years that ended in late 2025, just as they were finishing filming of La Bola Negra. The film stars Guitarrica de la Fuente, Miguel Bernardeu and Carlos González.
La Bola Negra, which is expected to be a contender for the next awards season, will premiere in Mexican cinemas in January. The film explores homosexual repression through a story told across three time periods that also touches on the Spanish Civil War and the figure of writer Federico García Lorca.
