Morelia International Film Festival

MICHOACAN COMPETITION FOR SHORT FILM SCREENPLAY AND MICHOACÁN SECTION

The Jury of the Michoacán Competition for Short Film Screenplay and the Michoacán Section of the 8th Morelia International Film Festival, made up of Ángel-Santos Garcés Constante, Cristina Prado Arias and Gustavo Sánchez Parra, has decided unanimously on the following awards and honorable mention:

• For its narrative structure and surprise ending, the award for the Best Short Film Screenplay in the Screenplay Competition goes to: Un exorcismo, by Guadalupe Eduwiges del Río Pimienta. Diploma and $10,000 pesos.

 

Michoacán Section

• Honorable mention for Ni una gota más (Won’t Spend a Drop More), by Jonathan Israel Antonio Garcés.
• Honorable mention for La bella soñante (Dreamy Beauty), by Omar Hernández Peña.

For experimenting with dreamlike and surreal sound, as well as playing with images and atmospheric sound:

• Special Prize iSat: Hablando de Jirafas, by Francisco Fuentes Lara and Patricia Fuentes Lara. A computor and editing program.

For recuperating people’s testimonies from a humanistic point of view, and for the correct use of photographic and film archives in the story:

• Prize for the Best Work of the Michoacán Section: Amaren Ideia (Mom’s Idea), by Maider Oleaga.
  Diploma.
  Trophy El Ojo.
  4,000 feet of 35 mm film and a can of 35 mm film by Kodak
  Package of Post Production with image and sound by New Art
  50,000 pesos, sponsored by the H. Ayuntamiento de Morelia.

 

MEXICAN SHORT FILM SECTION

The Jury of the Mexican Short Film Section of the 8th Morelia International Film Festival, made up of Pablo Fendrik, Jukka-Pekka Laakso and Charles Tesson, has decided on these awards and honorable mentions, although they also want to express the following:
We hope that our final selection reflects the diversity of the shorts that we have seen. Within this immense variety, what most impressed us is the fresh treatment of certain questions of social importance and actuality, told with sharp sense of humor. We are also amazed to discover new talent full of determination as they tell their stories and those of others in their countries.

• Honorable mention: Busco empleo (Looking for a Job), by Francisco Valle, who recently passed away.
• Special Prize Studio 5 de Mayo: El venado y la niebla (The Deer and the Fog), by Miguel Ángel Ventura.
  Package of three days of film in 16 mm or digital.
• Award Best Animated Short Film:Ponkina, by Beatriz Herrera.
  Diploma.
  El Ojo trophy
  4,000 feet of 35 mm film and a can of 35 mm film by Kodak
  Package of Post Production with image and sound by New Art
  100,000 pesos
• Award for Best Fiction Short Film: La mina de oro (The Gold Mine), by Jacques Bonnavent.
  Diploma
  El Ojo trophy
  4,000 feet of 35 mm film and a can of 35 mm film by Kodak
  Package of Post Production with image and sound by New Art
  100,000 pesos, sponsored by Coca Cola Light

Since the Morelia International Film Festival is officially recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Hollywood, the winning fiction and animated short films are eligible to be nominated for an Oscar.

Some of the winning works will be screened at Cannes after they have been selected by the Selection Committee of Critics’ Week.

 

MEXICAN DOCUMENTARY SECTION

The Jury of the Mexican Documentary Section, made up of David Courier, Gideon Koppel and Dennis Lim, and who are in the city of Morelia, Michoacán, on October 22, 2010, has unanimously resolved to give awards to the following:

For showing us an intimate, and sometimes surprising, return by a group of friends to an urban landscape two decades later.

• Award to the Best Mexican Documentary directed by a Woman for her documentary Nadie es inocente veinte años después (Nobody is Innocent 20 Years Later) by Sarah Minter.
  La Musa, sculpture by artist Elena Somonte, given by the Association of Women in Film and Television in Mexico.

For exploring in an ambitious, poetic and visceral manner the capacity of the human body to heal.

• Award for the Best Mexican Documentary Short Film: Carne que recuerda (Flesh That Remembers), by Dalia Huerta Cano.
  Diploma
  El Ojo trophy
  4,000 feet of 35 mm film and a can of 35 mm film by Kodak
  Package of Post Production with image and sound by New Art
  100,000 pesos

For its cinematographic evocation about the economic struggles and humanity of a community in constant flux.

• Award for the Best Mexican Documentary: El Varal, by Marta Ferrer.
  El Ojo trophy
  4,000 feet of 35 mm film and a can of 35 mm film by Kodak
  100,000 pesos, sponsored by Fundación Televisa.
  Will form part of Gira Ambulante 2011

 

MEXICAN FEATURE FILM SECTION

The Jury of the Mexican Feature Film Section, made up of Scott Foundas, Lucrecia Martel and Gerwin Tamsma, would like to thank the Festival for continuing to promote independent Mexican cinema.

By unanimous decision, the Jury has selected:

• Public’s Award for Mexican Feature Film in Competition (the result of the ballots given out during the week at the screenings of the Mexican feature films in competition) Acorazado by Álvaro Curiel.
  Diploma.
• Honorable Mención: Tierra madre (Mother Earth), by Dylan Verrechia and Aideé González, for portraying with great originality an extremely original woman.
• Award for Best Mexican Feature Film: Las marimbas del infierno (Marimbas from Hell), by Julio Hernández Cordon, by Julio Hernández Cordon, for the tragi-comical way of presenting some quixotic dreamers who help us believe that it is possible to make films in spite of everything.
  Diploma.
  El Ojo trophy.
  5,000 feet of 35 mm film and a can of 35 mm film by Kodak.
  30% discount in services by New Art.
  100,000, sponsored by Cinépolis.
  Hermés director’s chair, given by Fundación Hermés

 

Morelia LAB DOC 2010

Workshop for Young Latin American Documentary Producers/Directors

Awards Certificate

The Jury, made up of María Inés Roqué, Luis Felipe Tovar and Hugo Castro Fau, after attending the presentations of the projects by 30 participating producers, decided to award the prizes in the following manner:

• 1. Cinépolis Award Morelia Lab Screenplay to the best Latin American project (50,000 pesos) Más alla del Valle de Silicona by Carlos Caridad-Montero from Venezuela.
• 2. IMCINE Award - Morelia Lab to the best Mexican project (50 mil pesos), Los sabores de mis sueños by Roberto Alejandro Corzo from Chiapas.

The Jury also decided to give four honorable mentions to the following projects: La once by Mayte Alberdi Chile; Un legado de violencia by Juan Sarmiento of Colombia; Sin Clemencia by Alejandro Montalvo and Teonanácatl, más allá de María Sabina by Gustavo Mora, México.