[NYTr] Mexico, Brazil, Argentina Took Main Awards at Havana Film Festival
 
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:08:17 -0600 (CST)

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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 BLuz Silenciosa 
(Silent Light) by Mexican Carlos Reygadas; BEl aC1o en que mis padres 
salieron de vacacionesB (The Year my Parents went on Holidays) by 
Brazilian film maker Cao Hamburguer, and BEl otroB (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 
BMadrigalB, 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 MacC-as, 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 ZabC) 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 RaC:l Locatelli for 
Silent Light.

In the short-length category, the Coral Award went to MexicoBs 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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