AWARD WINNERS 2008

The 2008 aluCine Toronto Latin Media Festival Awards Ceremony
took place on Saturday,November 29th at theThe National Film Board of Canada, 150 John St.
All films/videos with english subtitles
9 days - 166 films and videos

aluCine's 2008 Jurors

+ Ana Pato +
http://www.videobrasil.org.br

+ Gabriela Golder +
www.continentevideo.com.ar

+ Mónica Restrepo+
http://www.lugaradudas.org

First Prize
"La Sombra de don Roberto"
"Don Roverto's Shade"
Juan Diego Spoerer and Hakan Engstrom (Chile/Sweden)

Second Prize
"Lektion 13"
"Lesson 13"
Kenji Ouellet (Canada/Germany)

Third Prize
"Sierra Blood Diaries Vol. 2"
"Diarios de la Sierra sangre Vol.2"
Joshua and Zachary Sandler (USA)

SPECIAL MENTION
"Life #2"
Dennis Day (Canada)

AWARD WINNERS 2007

aluCine's 2007 Jurors

+ Andrés Garcia la Rota +
andresglarota@yahoo.es

+ Brad Deane +
lina.rodri@gmail.com

+ Lorena Salome +
lorena.salome@gmail.com

+ Alvaro Giron +
giron.alvaro@gmail.com

selected the following awards out of 225 films in competition:

First Prize
Un Tiempo (Argentina)
Milena Pafundi
Donated by The Concord Cafe
Presented by Claudia Huerta

Second Prize
Primera Nieve (Argentina)
Pablo Aguero

Third Prize
La Quadrature du Cercle (Belgium)
Guillaume Senez


Best Local Production (LIFT)
Thaw
Shana MacDonald

Correo Canadiense Documentary Prize
3X16 (Canada / Peru)
Marcos Arriaga


Telelationo Film Prize
Café con Leche (Cuba)
Manuel Zayas


Honorable Mention
La Guerra (Spain)
Luiso Berdejo / Jorge C. Dorado


Battle Thoughts (Croatia)
Stanka Gjuric


Cosplayers (China)
Cao Fei

AWARD WINNERS 2006

The 2006 aluCine Toronto Latin Media Festival Awards Ceremony
took place on Saturday, June 10th at the Innis Town Hall in Toronto.

Best Fiction
Alma (Brazil)
Directed by Andre Morais
For its simplicity, universality, poetry and visual language.


Best Experimental
L’Evangile du Cochon Creole (Haiti)
Directed by Michelange Quay
For its bright narrative approach, its risk taking language and strength, enlighting
fundamental issues of the Americas both through black humour and cutting
edge editing and cinematography


Best Documentary
La Virgen del Asfalto (Mexico)
Directed by Fernando Frias, Paulina Lasa
For its ability to create and portrait important discussions amongst different
social institutions such as the church, the media and the community.


Best Cinematography
Medianeras (Argentina)
Directed by Gustavo Taretto
For its aesthetic concept,colloquial point of view, texture, warmth, poetic
lighting and simplicity in portraying human beings in contemporary society





Best Animation
Dog me again (Argentina)
Directed by El Niño Rodriguez
For its clever use of simplicity and conceptual depth.




Best Local Production Award
This is film is not a thriller (Canada)
Directed by Nicolas Pereda
For its cleverness, simplicity, great sense humour and brilliant approach
to contemporary cinema through the magic of editing.



Honorable Mentions

+ Human Resources +
Jose Javier Rodriguez (Spain)
For enlighting human condition, vulnerability, competition and
survival in contemporary world.