Mexican Rigoberto Pérezcano’s “Lovers Fare Goodbye,” a poignant, exquisitely shot story of star-crossed younger love dominated prizes at Primer Corte, Ventana Sur’s key arthouse pic competitors. The prize and dozens of others had been introduced Friday at Latin America’s most vital film-TV mart-meet.
Organizers confirmed a complete Ventana Sur attendance of 4,300 delegates, some 30% up on only a 12 months in the past.
Lensed in black-and-white and set within the Oaxaca valley, “Lovers” was all the time the frontrunner Primer Corte, which, with parallel part Copia Ultimate, focuses a lot of the eye of consumers at Ventana Sur.
“Lovers” six prizes appears like a historic document. So do the whole 88 trade awards at 12 of 14 sections – and Selection is likely to be lacking some – dolled out at Ventana Sur’s kudos ceremony. That serves testomony to only how a lot the market has grown from 2009 when it launched at Buenos Aires’ former Harrods constructing with, of sections, simply Primer Corte and a Thierry Frémaux-presented European Movie Week.
Following, very transient notes on among the main winners within the largest sections:
Primer Corte
A triumph for producer Cristina Velasco at Paloma Negra Movies,
with “Lovers Fare Goodbye,” from “Northless” director Pérezcano snagging the essential Cine+Plus Award which bids truthful for a sale to France. It wasn’t the one act on the town, nevertheless, with horror-laced psychological thriller “The Drowned,” from rising Ecuadorian auteur Juan Sebastián Jácome (“Cenizas”) and Victor Mares scored three nods.
Copia Ultimate
Costa Rican Antonella Sudasassi Furnis’s “Recollections of a Burning Physique” close to swept the board, due to a hybrid fiction-doc peppered by reconstruction of previous occasions, as Ana (68), Patricia (69), and Mayela (71) within the current open up about their hidden sexuality, breaking the silence they shared with moms, sisters, daughters, and granddaughters.
Recollections of a burning physique
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Netflix Award at SoloSerieS
Unarguably the toughest fought plaudit at Ventana Sur, with winner “Impermanence” proving one 5 finalist screenplays chosen from 62o submissions from girls screenwriters. The road to easily attend the 5 finalists’ pitches snaked deep down a hall of Buenos Aires’ Universidad Católica Argentina; finalists introduced to one of many market’s liveliest since younger audiences in considered one of Ventana Sur’s most spirited classes. “Impermanence,” a peripatetic examine of the stigma of menstruation from Colombia’s Laura Otálora, gained maybe for having essentially the most unique and social subject skewed premise.
Impermanence
Proyecta
Prizes went to extremely contrasting packages; Peru’s son-mother coming of age drama “Inform Me How A lot You Love Me” from Camila Zavala Chocano, just about off the radar earlier than making its market debut at Ventana Sur; and Brazilian-Cuban co-production “Moa,” from Marcel Beltrán, which was the most important winner at Locarno’s 2022 Open Doorways, María Farinha Movies now boarding as a co-producer in one other promising signal of a standout proposition.
Animation!
In one of the simpático moments on the awards ceremony, Silvina Cornillón, the excessive revered head of Animation! stopped in her tracks speaking on stage when she realized that she was addressing the largely Spanish-speaking viewers in English, and had been speaking to the part’s English-speaking jury in Spanish.
Her confusion is very comprehensible. Below Cornillón, Animation! has constructed into Latin America’s most related animation house, working with Annecy and a part of La Liga, a three-way alliance of Animation!, Mexico’s Pixelatl, and Spain’s Quirino Awards.
Two titles stood out by profitable double, each plaudits associated to those axes. Collection “Knightmares,” a horror comedy for 8-12s directed by Mexican award-winning publicist and radio novela scribe Juan Sotelo, scored an invite to pitch at Animation!’s particular focus program at Annecy’s MIFA Market and full entry accreditation for the Co-Manufacturing & Enterprise Discussion board at subsequent 12 months’s Quirino Awards.
Every episode framing a poetic fable and a small journey of self-knowledge, “Tales of Mungará,” from Brazil’s Carnaval Filmes, scooped an accreditation from MIFA and a La Liga Ibero-American Animation Award, comprising a full invitation to the Quirinos and Pixelatl.
Knightmares
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Paradiso WIP Award
Received in 2021 by Gabriel Martins’ household drama “Mars One,” which went on to be chosen for Sundance, this 12 months’s $10,000 money prize went to a different deserving title, “The Cuban Physician,” a movie turning on a way of company and a top quality not that frequent in motion pictures: kindness.
The Cuban Physician
“O Deserto de Akin,” (“The Cuban Physician”) (Courtesy of Ventana Sur)
Blood Window
Honors had been broadly unfold between a clutch of titles with two titles profitable double nods: “Spittle,” a frenetic gore motion film from Argentina’s all the time intriguing and altering Martin Desalvo (“The Hunter’s Silence,” “El Ciego”) and “The Girl Who Dreamt Below Water,” a psychological tragedy-thriller the directorial debut of screenwriter Carla Sierra and producer Ale García, behind “This Is Not Berlin” and “Lifeless Man’s Hand.” “Girl’s” win scooped the most important whoops of applause on the entire ceremony, a reminder of an even bigger than regular Mexican presence at this 12 months’s Ventana Sur.
Two different winners, Ximena García Lecuona’s “No Me Sigas” and Caye Casas’ “Malamuerte” had been among the many largest buzz titles at this 12 months’s Ventana Sur.
On the Blood Window Screenings, “Charming,” the fourth characteristic from Argentinian maverick José María Cicala, reigned supreme with a small city story of serial murders, psychosis and corruption.
Tinta Oscura
Now in its second 12 months and backed by Buenos Aires unbiased Del Toro Movies (“Auxilio”), a high-caliber competitors was gained by Mexico’s terribly prolific and multi-prized horror author Sandra Becerril (“Desde tu infierno”) with “All Your Fears,” a nightmarish story of possession and even worse. Del Toro is now prepared to supply, will replace on manufacturing particulars at Cannes.
VENTANA SUR’S 2023 PRIZES:
PRIMER CORTE
Cine+Plus Award
“Lovers Fare Goodbye,” (Rigoberto Pérezcano, Mexico)
Le Movie Français/Cannes Movie Market Award
“The Drownings,” (Juan Sebastián Jácome, Victor Mares, Ecuador, Uruguay)
Sofía Movies Award
“Lovers Fare Goodbye,”
NMF / Colour Entrance Award
“Seeds,” (Eliana Niño, Colombia, Spain)
LaMayor Cine Award
“The Drownings,”
APCLAI Award
“Lovers Fare Goodbye,”
CAACI Award
“Lovers Fare Goodbye,”
Dolby Imaginative and prescient Atmos
“The Drownings,”
Visom Digital
“The Cuban Physician,” (Bernard Lessa, Brazil)
“Lovers Fare Goodbye,”
Stone Milk
“Lovers Fare Goodbye,”
COPIA FINAL
Cine+Plus Award
“Recollections of a Burning Physique,” (Antonella Sudasassi Furniss, Costa Rica, Spain)
Le Movie Francais/Cannes Movie Market Award
“Recollections of a Burning Physique,”
APCLAI Award
“Recollections of a Burning Physique,”
Percepciones Textuales Award
“A Home with Two Canine,” (Matias Ferreyra, Argentina)
Ibero-American Movie Pageant Miami Award
“Recollections of a Burning Physique,”
Particular Point out
“Tiger,” (José María Cabral, Dominican Republic)
SOLOSERIES
Netflix Award
“Impermanence,” (Laura Otálora, Colombia)
Flixxo Awards
“Callback,” (Juan Francisco Chapur, Argentina)
“The Magical Jonson,” (Franco Dadone, Peru)
“Apparently,” (Carlos Indriago, Spain)
PROYECTA
WEMW Award
“Inform Me How A lot You Love Me,” (Camila Zabala, Peru)
Sørfond Award
“Moa,” (Marcel Beltrán, Cuba, Brazil)
BLOOD WINDOW LAB
Sitges, Incredible Movie Pageant of Catalonia Award
“Spittle,” (Martín Desalvo, Argentina)
Bifan/NAFF Award
“Don’t Comply with Me,” (“No Me Sigas,” Ximena García Lecuona, Mexico)
Fantasolab
“Spittle,” (Martín Desalvo, Argentina)
Terror Molins Movie Pageant Award
“The Girl Who Dreamt Underwater,” (Ale García, Carla Sierra, Mexico)
“On the Finish of the Night time,” (Jorge Navas, Colombia)
Cine Qua Non Lab Award
“Malamuerte,” (Caye Casas, Spain)
FANT.LATINA
Girl In Fan
“The Girl Who Dreamt Underwater,” (Ale García, Carla Sierra, Mexico)
SCREENINGS
La Mayor Award
“Do Not Enter,” (Hugo Cardozo, Paraguay)
Sofia Movies Award
“Charming,” (José María Cicala, Argentina)
Chemistry Award
“Charming,” (José María Cicala, Argentina)
Lahaye Media Award
“Charming,” (José María Cicala, Argentina)
Sitges, Incredible Movie Pageant of Catalonia Award
“Deep Argento,” (Giancarlo Rolandi, Italy)
“Marisa y Gomoso,” (Pablo Parés, Argentina)
Hypnotic VFX
“Charming,” (José María Cicala, Argentina)
TINTA OSCURA
Del Toro Movies Award
“All Your Fears,”(Sandra Becerril, Mexico)
ANIMATION!
Mifa/Annecy Award
TV Collection
“Bolla,” (Ariadna Galaz, Jorge Peralta Calladitos, Mexico)
“Knightmares,” (Juan Pablo Sotelo, Mexico)
Function Movies
“If I Die,” (Esther Very important, Brazil, Spain)
“Seed,” (Andrés Sehinkman, Federico Carlini, Argentina)
Mifa/Annecy Particular point out
“Tales of Mungará,” (Nara Aragão, Renata Roberta Azevedo , Brazil)
“Lucila,” (Bernardita Ojeda, Chile)
Pixelatl Award
“Electro Andes,” (Damián Fernández Gómez, Rojo Mc Gil, Argentina)
Bizarre Market Award
“Astropackers,” (Luisa Velásquez, Felipe Rodriguez, Colombia)
Premios Quirino Awards
“Knightmares,” (Juan Sotelo, Mexico)
“La Veta del Diablo,” (Germán Acuña, Chile)
La Liga de la Animación Iberoamericana Award
“Tales of Mungará,” (Nara Aragão, Renata Roberta Azevedo, Brazil)
LatinX in Animation Award
“Kolaval,” (Karla Velázquez, Mexico)
PUNTO GENERO
Género-Dac Award (Argentine Movie Administrators)
“Mother Lulú,” Mar Rivera (México, Estados Unidos, Honduras)
“The place We Belong,” (Obeida Benavides, Colombia
Apima Género Award
“Lonely Hearts,” (Caru Alves de Souza, Brazil, France)
AND Género Award
“Orgasms, Intercourse and All That,” (Teresa María Saporiti, Argentina)
EL PRINCIPIO DEL FILM
Ultimate Draft Award
“Wild Horse,” (Mariana Chiesa, Juan Sabio, Argentina)
“Earlier than The Future Comes,” (Gabriel Di Giacomo Rocha, Brazil)
“Uky and Lola within the land of Fireplace,” (Fabian Andrade, Chile)
“Electrical Angel,” Carlos Franco Esguerra, Colombia)
“Birthing,” (Sireneé Limon-Lason Blanco, Mexico)
“The Escape,” (Rolando Meléndez, Puerto Rico)
“Valizas,” (Rodolfo Santullo, Uruguay)
Fantástica Audiovisual
“Earlier than The Future Comes,” (Gabriel Di Giacomo Rocha, Brazil)
Noche Americana
“Spellbound,” (Lucila Las Heras, Matías Alejandro Gamio, Argentina)
MAQUINITAS
Most Promising Sport
“Ghostless,” (Coffeenauts, Brazil)
Greatest Artwork
“Hole Flowers,” (Ruido Amigo, Argentina)
Greatest Design
“Tempus Vitae,” (Whiteboard Video games, Argentina)
Greatest Technical Problem
“Airborne Enviornment,” (Fireborne Video games, Uruguay)
DOCSUR
Pageant de Trieste APCLAI Award
“Misplaced Mariachis,” (Francisco Ohem, México)
APIMA DOC Award
“3000 KM by Bike,” (Ivan Vescovo, Argentina)
DOCU DAC Award
“A World Imagined,” (Marcos Rodríguez, Argentina, Taiwan)
Edgar Allan Publish Award
“Rita Lee – B Facet,” (Oswaldo Santana, Brazil)
El Cono del Silencio Award
“Jorge Polaco,” (María Onis, Argentina)
Guateque Cine Award
“Misplaced Mariachis,” (Francisco Ohem, México)
Percepciones Textuales Award
“3000 KM by bike,” (Ivan Vescovo, Argentina)
“Troubles in Paradise – The Fable of Motherhood,” (Patricia Fróes, Brazil)
Cannes Docs, Marché du Movie – Pageant de Cannes Award
“3000 KM by bike,” (Ivan Vescovo, Argentina)
Doc.co Poster Award
“Negror,” (Joyce Prado, Sidney Santiago Kuanza, Brazil)
“3000 KM by bike,” (Ivan Vescovo, Argentina)
RECAM Award
“Troubles in Paradise – The Fable of Motherhood,” (Patricia Fróes, Brazil)
Conicet Documental Award
“Ayvu – to Communicate My Forbidden Language,” (Joaquin Pedretti, Argentina, Paraguay)
A+E Historical past Channel
“Love Does Not Exist,” (Fermín de la Serna, Argentina, U.S.)
Particular Point out DOC SUR 2023
“In Deep Waters Travels a Dream,” (Inti Jacanamijoy, Colombia)
“Bonpland, Naturalist and Spy,” (Francisco de Santis, Argentina)
“The French Lady’s Crime,” (Miguel Ángel Rocca, Maximiliano Mastrángelo, Argentina)
FANTASMATICA
Bizarre Animation, Video Video games & New Media Market Award
“The Uncle’s Music,” (Miguel Otálora, Colombia)
“Hole Flowers,” (Daniel Yepes, Argentina)
“Black Fowl,” (Esteban Pérez Ojeda, Chile)
“A-347,” (Milton Andrés Cruz Rojas, Colombia)
Cine Qua Non Lab Award
“Black Fowl,” (Esteban Pérez Ojeda, Chile)
Examine Boards Award
“Black Fowl,” (Esteban Pérez Ojeda, Chile)
