In 1993, Guillermo del Toro was just 28 years old and desperate to finish his first feature film, Cronos. To fund the project, he mortgaged his home and even sold his van, sacrificing nearly everything to bring his vision to life. The film, about a mysterious golden device that grants eternal life at a terrible cost, would become a landmark debut. But behind the scenes, del Toro faced his own moments of high drama. At the Toronto International Film Festival in 2001, he recalled one of the more s