Production
Babel's ultimate $25 million budget came from an array of different sources and investors anchored with Paramount Vantage, which changed its name from Paramount Classics, with Babel as its premiere production and inaugural motion picture.
Actress Adriana Barraza, who plays the role of Amelia, is a two-time survivor of minor heart attacks. She nonetheless carried co-actress Elle Fanning around in the hot desert of Southern California during the summer for two days during filming of those particular desert scenes. The whole of the desert scenes were said to have taken five days to shoot.
- Filming locations
- Ibaraki, Japan
- Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
- Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
- El Carrizo, Mexico
- Sonora, Mexico
- Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
- Ouarzazate, Morocco
- Taguenzalt, Morocco – a Berber village in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains, built into the rocky gorges of the Draa Valley.
- San Diego, California, USA
- San Ysidro, California, USA
- Drumheller, Alberta, Canada
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