During the gala, the winners of the categories Feature Film Competition, Best Chilean Film, International Youth Feature Film Competition, Latin American Short Film Competition, Latin American Children’s Short Film Competition and Chilean Cinema of the Future have been announced. In addition to the unofficial prizes, the Héctor Ríos prize, for the best Chilean photographic direction, and the Explora el Cine micro-film competition.
The winning film of the Feature Films Competition is the film by Huaiquimilla which addresses the reality and the social and political conflicts of juvenile detention centers in Chile.
The Special Jury Prize in this category went to Canadian Film, Saint Anne, by Rhayne Vermette …
The jury also awarded two special mentions to the films, One image, two acts, by Sanaz Sohrabi (co-production between Canada, Germany, the United States and Iran) and the Chilean Transvestite crossingby Nicolas Videla.
The jury was made up of María Alché, Argentine director, screenwriter and actress, Inti Briones, filmmaker and photographer, and film critic and programmer, Martín Pawley.
In the Chilean feature film competition Under the cover of the sky got the main prize. In the International Youth Feature Film Competition, the winning film was the Brazilian film Ecstasy, by Moara Passon.
For its part, the Special Jury Prize in the International Youth Feature Film category was awarded to the South Korean feature film. Short vacationby Kwon Min-pyo and Seo Hansol.
Twelve works from Cuba, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico and Costa Rica were selected for the competition for best Latin American short film.
The film that won the first prize is the Luso-Colombian co-production, Open frameby Maria Rojas Arias. Meanwhile, this year’s Special Jury Prize went to the film Tribute to the work of Philip Henry Gosseby Pablo Martin Weber.
As part of the Latin American Children’s Short Film Competition The box of my memories by Camila Ortega Puebla won first prize in the FICvaldivia Latin American Children’s Short Film Competition in its 2021 version.
In the same category, the Special Jury Prize was awarded to My blue dadby Catalina Etcheverry.
The Chilean cinema of the future category, which aims to be a showcase where national and Latin American filmmakers, producers and producers feel welcome and can generate links that allow them to professionalize and carry out their audiovisual projects, awarded in the postproduction category for So dirty and so happyby Wincy Oyarce.
In the First Cut category, the prize was awarded to Eclipse in chaosby Dubi Cano and Samantha Cabrera.
The Sonamos Prize, consisting of 3 days of sound mixing and the Kiné-Images Prize, which involves the construction of a Master in DCP format, has been won, Under Zokumentu suspicion, by Daniel Diaz, produced by Esteban Sandoval and Felipe Poblete, by Pejeperro Films.
The fifth edition of the Explora el Cine micro-film competition, is organized within the framework of FICValdivia, between the Cinematographic Promotion Center and PAR Explora Los Ríos of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation , distinct Is it a dream or not? by Josefina Arriagada de Valdivia
The jury also awarded an honorable mention to the film man of the world by María José Fernández, from Paillaco.
Finally, the Héctor Ríos Prize awarded by the Chilean Cinematography Association for the best cinematographic achievement was awarded this year by the film My brothers dream de Huaiquimilla and photographed by Mauro Veloso.
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