You read in last week’s issue about the 16th annual Cine Las Americas Film Festival, and now the winners have been announced.
Without further ado, here’s the full slate:
Narrative Feature Competition
Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature
Mejor No Hablar de Ciertas Cosas (Porcelain Horse)
D: Javier Andrade, Ecuador
Special Jury Award for Cinematography
La Jubilada (The Retiree)
D: Jairo Boisier, Chile
Special Jury Award for Performance
Cecilia Suárez in Nos Vemos, Papa (See You, Dad)
D: Lucía Carreras, Mexico
Special Jury Mention for Experimental Approach to Narrative
El Efecto K. el Montador de Stalin (The K Effect. Stalin’s Editor)
D: Valentí Figueres, Spain
Documentary Feature Competition
Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature
Young Lakota
D: Marion Lipschutz & Rose Rosenblatt, USA
Honorable Mention for Documentary Feature
El Alcalde (The Mayor)
D: Emiliano Altuna, Diego Enrique Osorno, Carlos Rossini, Mexico
Honorable Mention for Documentary Feature
Habana Muda
D: Eric Brach, France/Cuba
Texas Archive of the Moving Image Hecho en Tejas Award
Southmost U.S.A.
D: Trish Dalton, USA
Short Film Competition
Jury Award for Best Narrative Short
Zombi (Zombie)
D: David Moreno, Spain
Special Jury Award for Visual Storytelling
La Noche Anuncia la Aurora (Night Announces Dawn)
D: Gerard Uzcategui, Venezuela
Special Jury Award for Animated Narrative
La Noria (The Waterwheel)
D: Karla Castañeda, Mexico
Jury Award for Best Documentary Short
Una Historia Para los Modlin (A Story for the Modlins)
D: Sergio Oksman, Spain
Audience Awards
Audience Award for Narrative Feature
Delusions of Grandeur
D: Iris Almaraz, with Gustavo Ramos, USA
Audience Award for Documentary Feature
Young Lakota
D: Marion Lipschutz & Rose Rosenblatt, USA
Audience Award for Emergencia Youth Film Competition
Siblings
D: Leo Aguirre, Aruba
White Washed (in progress)
D: Caytlyn Isham, St. Paul, Minn.
This article appears in April 19 • 2013.