The Costa Rica International Film Festival has announced the full list of winners from its fifth edition. An initiative of the Ministry of Culture and Youth’s Film Center, this year’s festival included 72 films from around the world and ran from December 8 to December 17 in San Jose.
Read More: Costa Rica’s Big Movie Dreams: How a Country With 150 Theaters Plans to Improve the Central America Film Industry
The jurors of the 2016 fest announced the competition and audience award winners in each of the festival’s three categories at the closing ceremony Saturday at the Magaly Theater.
“After 10 intense days, the 2016 edition of the Costa Rica International Film Festival comes to an end, having firmly established that it is committed not just to national and Central American cinema, but to strengthening its ties with audiences, whose numbers swelled this year compared to the 2015 edition,” Crfic Artistic Director Marcelo Quesada said in a statement.
Read More: Costa Rica’s Big Movie Dreams: How a Country With 150 Theaters Plans to Improve the Central America Film Industry
The jurors of the 2016 fest announced the competition and audience award winners in each of the festival’s three categories at the closing ceremony Saturday at the Magaly Theater.
“After 10 intense days, the 2016 edition of the Costa Rica International Film Festival comes to an end, having firmly established that it is committed not just to national and Central American cinema, but to strengthening its ties with audiences, whose numbers swelled this year compared to the 2015 edition,” Crfic Artistic Director Marcelo Quesada said in a statement.
- 12/19/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Top brass at Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival announced on Tuesday (February 17) the five post-production selections.
Miami Encuentros is in its 12th year and is presented through the festival’s VeoMiami industry programme that runs parallel to the festival, set to run from March 6-15.
The winning project will receive a $10,000 cash prize presented by The John S and James L Knight Foundation.
The five Miami Encuentros 2015 projects are:
The Apostate (El Apóstata) (Spain-France-Uruguay), produced by Guadalupe Balaguer Trelles, Fernando Franco and Federico Veiroj, directed by Federico Veiroj;
Lost North (Sin Norte) (Chile), produced by Luis Cifuentes and Francisca Urrutia, directed by Fernando Lavanderos;
My Friend From The Park (Mi Amiga Del Parque) (Argentina-Uruguay), produced by Nicolás Avruj, Diego Lerman and Ana Katz, directed by Ana Katz;
Strange Days (Dias Extraños) (Argentina-Colombia), produced by Juan Villegas, Rodrigo Moreno and Juan Sebastián Quebrada, directed by Juan Sebastián Quebrada; and
Wounded Man (Te Prometo Anarquía) (Mexico-...
Miami Encuentros is in its 12th year and is presented through the festival’s VeoMiami industry programme that runs parallel to the festival, set to run from March 6-15.
The winning project will receive a $10,000 cash prize presented by The John S and James L Knight Foundation.
The five Miami Encuentros 2015 projects are:
The Apostate (El Apóstata) (Spain-France-Uruguay), produced by Guadalupe Balaguer Trelles, Fernando Franco and Federico Veiroj, directed by Federico Veiroj;
Lost North (Sin Norte) (Chile), produced by Luis Cifuentes and Francisca Urrutia, directed by Fernando Lavanderos;
My Friend From The Park (Mi Amiga Del Parque) (Argentina-Uruguay), produced by Nicolás Avruj, Diego Lerman and Ana Katz, directed by Ana Katz;
Strange Days (Dias Extraños) (Argentina-Colombia), produced by Juan Villegas, Rodrigo Moreno and Juan Sebastián Quebrada, directed by Juan Sebastián Quebrada; and
Wounded Man (Te Prometo Anarquía) (Mexico-...
- 2/17/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Top brass at Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival announced on Tuesday (February 17) the five post-production selections.
Miami Encuentros is in its 12th year and is presented through the festival’s VeoMiami industry programme that runs parallel to the festival, set to run from March 6-15.
The winning project will receive a $10,000 cash prize presented by The John S and James L Knight Foundation.
The five Miami Encuentros 2015 projects are:
The Apostate (El Apóstata) (Spain-France-Uruguay), produced by Guadalupe Balaguer Trelles, Fernando Franco and Federico Veiroj, directed by Federico Veiroj;
Lost North (Sin Norte) (Chile), produced by Luis Cifuentes and Francisca Urrutia, directed by Fernando Lavanderos;
My Friend From The Park (Mi Amiga Del Parque) (Argentina-Uruguay), produced by Nicolás Avruj, Diego Lerman and Ana Katz, directed by Ana Katz;
Strange Days (Dias Extraños) (Argentina-Colombia), produced by Juan Villegas, Rodrigo Moreno and Juan Sebastián Quebrada, directed by Juan Sebastián Quebrada; and
Wounded Man (Te Prometo Anarquía) (Mexico-...
Miami Encuentros is in its 12th year and is presented through the festival’s VeoMiami industry programme that runs parallel to the festival, set to run from March 6-15.
The winning project will receive a $10,000 cash prize presented by The John S and James L Knight Foundation.
The five Miami Encuentros 2015 projects are:
The Apostate (El Apóstata) (Spain-France-Uruguay), produced by Guadalupe Balaguer Trelles, Fernando Franco and Federico Veiroj, directed by Federico Veiroj;
Lost North (Sin Norte) (Chile), produced by Luis Cifuentes and Francisca Urrutia, directed by Fernando Lavanderos;
My Friend From The Park (Mi Amiga Del Parque) (Argentina-Uruguay), produced by Nicolás Avruj, Diego Lerman and Ana Katz, directed by Ana Katz;
Strange Days (Dias Extraños) (Argentina-Colombia), produced by Juan Villegas, Rodrigo Moreno and Juan Sebastián Quebrada, directed by Juan Sebastián Quebrada; and
Wounded Man (Te Prometo Anarquía) (Mexico-...
- 2/17/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Festival organisers have unveiled the line-up at Mexico’s third annual Riviera Maya Film Festival, set to run in in Cancun, Puerto Morelos, Playa del Carmen and Tulum from March 9-15.
Patrice Leconte’s A Promise, Richard Ayoade’s The Double and Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: Volume 1 & Volume 2 are among the international selections.
All in all more than 50 films will screen at the festival, which includes three juried awards in the Mexican Platform section, the RivieraLAB/Co-production Forum and the RivieraLAB/Work in Progress programme.
The festival will award 1.5m Mxn prize money (approximately $1.5m) in total.
The film selection includes Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves, Hitoshi Matsu’s R100, Wang Bing’s Til Madness Do Us Apart and Shion Sono’s Why Don´t You Play in Hell?
“In our third edition, we want to continue working towards the promotion and distribution of the film industry, bringing it to the largest possible audience,” said...
Patrice Leconte’s A Promise, Richard Ayoade’s The Double and Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: Volume 1 & Volume 2 are among the international selections.
All in all more than 50 films will screen at the festival, which includes three juried awards in the Mexican Platform section, the RivieraLAB/Co-production Forum and the RivieraLAB/Work in Progress programme.
The festival will award 1.5m Mxn prize money (approximately $1.5m) in total.
The film selection includes Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves, Hitoshi Matsu’s R100, Wang Bing’s Til Madness Do Us Apart and Shion Sono’s Why Don´t You Play in Hell?
“In our third edition, we want to continue working towards the promotion and distribution of the film industry, bringing it to the largest possible audience,” said...
- 2/6/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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