Thursday, November 12, 2015

COLOMBIAN FILM WINS AFI FEST 2015

By Jose Alberto Hermosillo,


AFI FEST 2015 Presented by Audi "Awards"

The Colombian film "Land and Shade/LA TIERRA Y LA SOMBRA" wins the New Auteurs Grand Jury Award. The film is directed by César Augusto Acevedo.

"Mustang" cast and producer. Photo by: Jose Alberto Hermosillo

The French film shot in Turkey "Mustang" wins the New Auteurs Audience Award.

New Auteurs Grand Jury Award: LAND AND SHADE / LA TIERTA Y LA SOMBRA (DIR César Augusto Acevedo)


Special Jury Mention for Direction: DISORDER (DIR Alice Winocour)

Dir Lorenzo Vigas, Desde Allá, (Venezuela) Photo by Jose Alberto Hermosillo

Special Jury Mention for Screenplay: DESDE ALLÁ (DIR/SCR Lorenzo Vigas)

GRAND JURY AWARDS, LIVE ACTION AND ANIMATED SHORT

Grand Jury Award for Live Action Short: BOYS (DIR Isabella Carbonell)

Grand Jury Award for Animated Short: WORLD OF TOMORROW (DIR Don Hertzfeldt)

Live Action Short Special Mention for Nonfiction Filmmaking: 
The Reagan Shorts — RONALD REAGAN LIGHTS THE LIGHTS, RONALD REAGAN PARDONS A TURKEY, MARYLAND PUBLIC TELEVISION INTERVIEWS THE REAGANS (DIR Pacho Velez)
Photo by Jose Alberto Hermosillo.
Animated Short Special Jury Mention for Screenwriting: TEETH (DIRS Tom Brown, Daniel Gray)

Animated Short Special Jury Mention for Creative Vision: MANOMAN (DIR Simon Cartwright)

AUDIENCE AWARDS:
World Cinema Audience Award: LANDFILL HARMONIC (DIRS Brad Allgood, Graham Townsley, Juliana Penaranda-Loftus)

"Mustang" Girls. Photo by Jose Alberto Hermosillo.
New Auteurs Audience Award: MUSTANG (DIR Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
Photo by Jose Alberto Hermosillo
American Independents Audience Award: JAMES WHITE (DIR Josh Mond)
 
"Ma" Photo by Jose Alberto Hermosillo

Breakthrough Audience Award: MA (DIR Celia Rowlson-Hall).
AFI FEST Staff and Mustang cast. Photo by Jose A. Hermosillo. Copyrights Festival in LA

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