![]() ![]() €6,000 ($6,590) for development provided by Europe’s online ArteKino Festival. Mata a tus amos,” Carlos Zerpa, Venezuela, Puerto Rico) €8,000 ($8,780) for development provided by France’s powerful CNC national film agency. “Desidia,” (Leandro Grillo, Bolivia, Chile) “Three Bullets,” (“Tres balas,” Génesis Valenzuela, Dominican Republic) ![]() “Pantasma,” (Gloria Carrión, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras) Peruvian Victor Checa, a Latin American genre standard bearer, won the BR Lab Award for “Last of Kings,” a “coming-of-age Western vampire story,” Checa said, set in a futuristic Peru ravaged by desert storms.įurther awards went to two Open Doors’ Producers Lab participants: Battling Peruvian LGBTQ director-producer Carlos Ormeño Palma for “The Scent of Walls,” whose short “The Distance of Time” was regarded as one of the best playing Open Doors Screenings and Paraguayan Ivana Urizar, at Locarno with “Bajo las banderas, el sol,” a doc feature asking why Alfredo Stroessner’s 1953-1989 dictatorship lasted so long.Ī total of CHF 50,000 ($55,000), sponsored by Visions Sud Est, supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the City of Bellinzona and the Open Doors initiative. Women’s emancipation narratives figured strongly in the awards mix, with prizes to Costa Rican Paz Fabrega’s “Milky Way, Leslie Ortiz’s “Libertinas” and Jamaican Gibrey Allen’s “Raised by Goats.” Leandro Grillo’s “Desidia,” an atmospheric portrait of Aymara Bolivian highland city as “controlled disorder,” took the third Visions Sud Est cash prize. Valenzuela comes in at the film as she reconstructs her own identity as a “human being/woman/Afro-Caribbean/filmmaker.” “The driving force of this film is the desire for emancipation, both from the constraints of existence and from those of filmmaking,” she has said. It investigates the murder of Dominican immigrant Lucrecia Pérez, shot and killed by four neo-Nazis in 1992, the same year that Spain celebrated its conquest of Latin America. Fleeing Nicaragua as Daniel Ortega has increasingly suppressed dissidence in the country in the last few years and now unable to shoot in the country, Carrión and Zuñiga will shoot “Pantasma” using stop motion animation, creating dry corn leaf small-scale replicas of places and figures, mixed with archival footage, video art and photos, sometimes projected onto the screen “The Missing Picture”-style, she added.Īn alum of San Sebastian’s prestigious Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Dominican Genésis Valenzuela’s “Three Bullets” (Tres Balas”) was the only title to take multiple awards, including a weighty CHF20,000 ($22,000) from Visions Sud Est. ![]()
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