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EditorEstablished 1995 filmfestivals.com serves and documents relentless the festivals community, offering 92.000 articles of news, free blog profiles and functions to enable festival matchmaking with filmmakers. THE NEWSLETTER REACHES 199 000 FILM PROFESSIONALS EACH WEEK (december 2020) .Share your news with us at press@filmfestivals.com to be featured. SUBSCRIBE to the e-newsletter. MEET YOUR EDITOR Bruno Chatelin - Check some of his interviews. Board Member of many filmfestivals and regular partner of a few key film events such as Cannes Market, AFM, Venice Production Bridge, Tallinn Industry and Festival...Check our recent partners. The news in French I English This content and related intellectual property cannot be reproduced without prior consent. ![]() The 13th New York Havana Film Festival was a Big Hit at the Box OfficeAt the Closing Night Ceremony on April 20th, 7 pm, at the New York Directors Guild Theatre, Distancia / Distance by Sergio Ramirez (Guatemala) won the Havana Star Prize for Best Picture and Best Director while the Best Screenplay prize went to Jualiana Rojas and Marco Dutra for Trabalhar Cansa / Hard Labor (Brazil) in the Fiction competition, as voted by the jury members: Esmeralda Santiago, Angel Lara and Jairo Carrillo. Con mi corazón en Yambo / With My Heart in Yambo (Ecuador) by Maria Fernanda Restrepo won the Havana Star Prize for Best Documentary, as voted by the jury members: Mario Murillo, Juan Alejandro Ramirez and Ruth Goldberg.
Winners Marco Dutras and Juliana Rojas
Sergio Ramirez
Guatemalan filmmaker Sergio Ramirez said when accepting the award "Being my first time in New York I was very pleased with the reception my movie had at the festival. The conversations after the movie were very interesting. The feedback was great." Con mi corazón in Yambo / With my Heart in Yambo directed by Maria Fernanda Restrepo (Ecuador) won Best Documentary. The documentary is a personal journey mixed with the memory of a whole country marked by this history. On January 8, 1988, when Maria Fernanda Restrepo was 10 years old, her older brothers were taken by the Ecuadorean police and tortured, assassinated without any reason. Their bodies were disposed of in the Yambo Lake and never found. "While the film is a personal account of a very painful family history, the narrative resonates throughout Latin America where stories of state-sponsored terror have been common occurrences for generations. The filmmaker's determination to uncover the truth about her two brothers disappearance and murder over twenty years ago, led to a series of encounters with the responsible officials who to this day deny any wrongdoing in the case, and have escaped justice. The film unfolds as a first person narrative connecting the personal to the historical, resulting in a compelling re-evaluation of cultural memory," in the Jury's own words. A full house enjoyed the Closing Night Ceremony and Awards Presentation, followed by the New York premiere of Juan de los muertos / Juan of the Dead. The film directed by Alejandro Brugués, a box office hit everywhere it has played, is the first zombie movie made in Cuba. The audience loved the film and engaged in a lively conversation with the director. The presenting sponsor of HFFNY 2012 is NBC / Telemundo 47. Additional sponsorship is provided by El Diario La Prensa, TD Bank, Latino Artists Round Table (LART), Enrola TV, Latino Events, Xael Charters, Marazul Charters, Rockamedia, Copacabana Pizza & Grill, Patron, Sombrero, Il Buco, and Brazil Grill. HFFNY is made possible with public funds from the NYS Council on the Arts, a state agency and supported, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. HFFNY is also supported by Mayor Bloomberg's Latin Media and Entertainment Commission (LMEC). The Havana Film Festival New York is a project of American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba (AFLFC), a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization building cultural bridges between the U.S. and Cuba through programs in the arts. For more information on Havana Film Festival New York visitwww.HFFNY.com For more information go to www.HFFNY.com For photos in HR, please contact Diana Vargas: E/ press@dianavargas.com; C/917-658-7735 or 917-668-7344 25.04.2012 | Editor's blog Cat. : 917-658-7735 917-668-7344 Alejandro Brugués Angel Lara Bloomberg Contact Details Cuba Diana Vargas Director Ecuadorean police El Diario La Prensa Entertainment Entertainment Esmeralda Santiago Films Geography of North America Gulf of Mexico Havana HAVANA HAVANA FILM FESTIVAL Jairo Carrillo Jualiana Rojas Juan Alejandro Ramirez Juliana Rojas Latin America Latino Marco Dutra Maria Fernanda Restrepo Mario Murillo mayor NBC New York Person Email Address press@dianavargas.com Quotation Restrepo Round Table Ruth Goldberg Sergio Ramirez the Best Screenplay prize The Havana Film Festival the Havana Star Prize Winners Marco Dutras www.HFFNY.com FESTIVALS
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