• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 12 / 13 / 2010

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Por Rose Ana Berbeo. Domingo, 12 de diciembre de 2010. Havana, Dec. 12 (Prensa Latina) Uruguayan director Federico Veiroj won the Coral Grand Prize today for Best Film at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, for his originality of expression in La Vida Util, a moving declaration of love for film.

Chilean Pablo Larrain won second place with Post Mortem, whose stars, Antonia Zegers and Antonio Castro, also won the Coral prizes for Best Actress and Best Actor, and which also won the Coral for Best Script, for Larraín and Mateo Iribarren.

Mexican María Novaro took third place for Las Buenas Hierbas, making it the third time she has been a winner at the Havana Film Festival.

The prize for Best Director went to Cuban Fernando Pérez for Martí, El Ojo del Canario, about Cuban national hero Jose Martí.

A partial list of the winners at the Havana Film Festival:

-Coral First Place: La vida útil, by Federico Veiroj (Uruguay)

-Coral Second Place: Post mortem, by Pablo Larraín (Chile)

-Coral Third Place: Las buenas hierbas, by María Novaro (Mexico)

-Special Jury Prize: La mirada invisible, by Diego Lerman (Argentina)

-Jury Mention: Casa vieja, by Lester Hamlet (Cuba)

-Best Director: Fernando Pérez, for José Martí, el ojo del canario (Cuba)

-Best Actor: Alfredo Castro, for Post Mortem (Chile)

-Best Actress: Antonia Zegers, for Post Mortem (Chile)

-Best Script: Pablo Larraín and Mateo Iribarren, for Post mortem (Chile)

-Best Photography: Damián García, for Chicogrande (Mexico)

-Best Artistic Direction: Erick Grass, for José Martí, El Ojo del Canario (Cuba)

-Best Editing: Eliane Katx, for Por tu culpa (Argentina)

-Best Original Music: Santiago Chávez and Judith de León, for Las buenas hierbas (México)

Source:PL