Mexico’s official entry to the Best International Feature Oscar race, Lila Aviles’ “Totem,” and Tatiana Huezo’s documentary “The Echo” (“El Eco”) snagged three prizes apiece at the Morelia International Film Festival (Ficm), which wrapped Sunday, Oct. 29.
The awards doled out Saturday capped a busy 21st edition that saw a constellation of luminaries in town, including Jodie Foster, Jessica Chastain, Peter Saarsgard, Viggo Mortensen, Danny Huston, James Ivory, Irène Jacob and producing partners Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy.
Mexico’s multi-Oscar nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, who received the festival’s Premio Cuervo lifetime achievement award, served as a juror in the official selection which gave best Mexican feature and best director awards to “Totem,” described by Variety as an“intimate, emotionally rich” film. “Totem” also took home the Audience Award, a good indication of its box office potential.
The best screenplay award went to Elisa Miller and Daniela Gómez for their gripping drama,...
The awards doled out Saturday capped a busy 21st edition that saw a constellation of luminaries in town, including Jodie Foster, Jessica Chastain, Peter Saarsgard, Viggo Mortensen, Danny Huston, James Ivory, Irène Jacob and producing partners Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy.
Mexico’s multi-Oscar nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, who received the festival’s Premio Cuervo lifetime achievement award, served as a juror in the official selection which gave best Mexican feature and best director awards to “Totem,” described by Variety as an“intimate, emotionally rich” film. “Totem” also took home the Audience Award, a good indication of its box office potential.
The best screenplay award went to Elisa Miller and Daniela Gómez for their gripping drama,...
- 10/30/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
This week's episode features:Mónica Ojeda (Ecuador), writer, winner of the 2019 Prince Claus Award and finalist for the National Book Awards 2022, one of the most prestigious awards in the United States. She is the author of the novels La desfiguración de Sigifredo, Nefando and Mandíbula, as well as the poetry collections El ciclo de las piedras and Historia de la leche. Most recently, she published a book of short stories, Las voladoras. Ojeda is considered one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Latin American literature for her problematization of desire, female sexuality, and motherhood as experiences intimately linked to horror and violence.Michelle Garza Cervera (México), a screenwriter and director. She graduated from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica and received a Chevening scholarship at the University of London. She has directed the short films Isósceles, La rabia de Clara, and The Original, selected at festivals such as Toulouse, Havana and Sitges.
- 9/14/2023
- MUBI
October is near and so is the 2014 edition of the Morelia International Film Festival! Taking place from October 17 to 26, the 12th edition of Morelia is going to be celebrating the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, with an image that evokes those times and a program dedicated to classic Mexican film noir. With the support of Cineteca Nacional, Filmoteca Unam, and Fundación Televisa, Morelia will screen seven Mexican films that classify as film noir. Those include three pictures by Roberto Gavaldón and a couple from Alejandro Galindo, both renowned directors from the Golden Age. "Thanks to these institutions, an extraordinary labor of film preservation is going on. This is the first film program dedicated exclusively to Mexican film noir; and with it, Morelia tries to promote...
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- 8/14/2014
- Screen Anarchy
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