Morelia International Film Festival

1st Michoacán Screenplay Competition

• Natalia en vilo directed by Antonio Monter Rodríguez
• Pero yo te amo directed by José María Cázarez Rosales
• Recuerdos de un michoacano directed by Silvia Hernández Tort
  Prize: Diploma and $500 USD each
• Best Michoacán Short Film Bio-Bit directed by Manuel Cisneros
  Prize: Diploma

Short Film Competition

• Best Experimental Short Film: Tlahuelpuchi directed by Fabiola Del Carmen Ramos
• Best Fiction Short Film: The Passenger directed by Matias Meyer
• Best Animated Short Film: De raíz directed by Carlos Carrera
• Best Documentary Short Film: Blessed Death directed by Mario Trueba, Alejandro Jimenez, Erika Mercado
  Prize: Diploma, Festival Trophy, $5,000.00 USD, 4,000 ft . Kodak 35mm film and I-Life Software (donated by Simplemente)

Special "Monarch Butterfly" Jury Prize: Elephants Never Forget, dir. Lorenzo Vigas
Prize: Diploma, 6 hours of telecine (donated by Ollin Studio), Motion Control equipment rental (Three 12-hour days) including electronic crane and Carl Zeiss high-speed personal optical camera (donated by Motion Control México), and processing of 5000 ft . of film (donated by Churubusco studios)

Honorable Mention "33 ½" directed by Aaron Soto
Prize: Diploma
-Some of the cash prizes were sponsored by: Cinépolis, Diesel, and the Morelia Municipal Government.

Documentary Competition

• Best Documentary: Tropic of Cancer directed by Eugenio Polgovsky
  Prize: Diploma, Festival Trophy, $5,000.00 USD, 4,000 ft . Kodak 35mm film and I-Life Software (donated by Simplemente).

Honorable Mention: Tales from the Inside, directed by Guadalupe Miranda
Prize: Diploma and Final Cut Pro HD software (donated by Simplemente)

Audience Awards

• Best Michoacán Short Film: Hidalgo, historic city directed by Tomás Pérez, Pavel Rodríguez, Gildardo Vega
  Premio: Diploma, Trofeo del Festival, $ 50 000.00, película virgen 35 mm y cámara fotográfica (Kodak) y Programa I-Life (Simplemente).
• Best Short Film: I Bet, I Win directed by Alejandra Sánchez Orozco
• Best Documentary Short Film: My Tierra Caliente directed by Omar González Villaseñor
• Best Documentary Feature: The Children of Morelia directed by Juan Pablo Villaseñor
• Best Feature: Hero directed by Zhang Yimou
  Prize: Diploma

Other Prizes

• Special Recognition to Jesús Flores Ortiz for his outstanding career as a projectionist.