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Mexico, Brazil, Argentina Took Main Awards at Havana Film Festival
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Mexico, Brazil and Argentina Take Main Awards at Havana Film Festival
Havana, Dec 14 (acn) The 29 International Festival of the New Latin
American Cinema granted its three First Main Coral Awards to Mexico,
Brazil and Argentina. The Jury gave its Special Award to Cuba and a
Mention of Honor to Chile.
The films awarded with the three main Coral Prizes were "Luz Silenciosa
(Silent Light) by Mexican Carlos Reygadas; "El ao en que mis padres
salieron de vacaciones" (The Year my Parents went on Holidays) by
Brazilian film maker Cao Hamburguer, and "El otro" (The other One) by
Argentinean director Ariel Rotter.
The Mexican film was also entitled to the Amazonia Films Latin American
Distribution Award, while Cao Hamburguer?s movie was considered by the
jury a work of high sensitivity in approaching human and social aspects
related to a specific period of Brazil?s history.
Meanwhile, the jury gave its Special Award to the Cuban film
"Madrigal", by film maker Fernando Perez and stressed the masterly
treatment given by the director to universal issues like truth and lie.
A Mention of Honor was awarded to the film Fiestapatria, by Chilean
director Luis R. Viera.
The Coral Prize to the Best Director went to Mexican Carlos Reygadas;
the Coral to the Best Actor was granted to Argentinean Julio Chavez who
played the main character in The Other One. The Prize to the Best
Artistic Direction went to the hands of Cuban Erick Grass, who worked
in "Madrigal."
Other prizes included the Coral to the Best Script granted to Pablo
Vierci, Daniel Henriquez and Alejandra Marino in the film "Matar
atodos."
Juan Carlos Macas, Mauricio Santos, Valentina Leduc and Natalia
Bruschtein, editors of Cobrador: In God we trust, by Mexican Paul
Leduc, received the Coral Award for Best Editing.
Best Cinematography Award went to Alexis Zab(c) for Silent Light and Beto
Villares won the Best Original Music Award for The Year my Parents Went
on Vacations. Best Sound Track Coral Award went Ral Locatelli for
Silent Light.
In the short-length category, the Coral Award went to Mexico's Ver
llover, by Elisa Miller. The jury also awarded a mention of honor to
Cuba's "Siberia," by Renata Duque Lasio.
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