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

TELELATINO LATINO FILM PRIZE
Café con Leche (Cuba)
Manuel Zayas

HONORABLE MENTION
La Guerra (Spain)
Luiso Berdejo/Jorge C. Dorado

HONORABLE MENTION
Battle Toughts (Croatia)
Stanka Gjuric

HONORABLE MENTION
Cosplayers (China)
Cao Fei

aluCine 2006 AWARD WINNERS

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)
Fernando Frias
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, coloquial point of view, texture, warmth, poetic
lighitng 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.

+ Ornithology +
Luo Li (Canada)
For its intelligence, poetry and technical playfulness.

+ Trópico de Capricornio +
Kika Nicolela (Brasil)
For the originality of its approach and cinematography, its simplicity and ability
to portray the intimacy of transvestites