Chilean Cinema Rocks
2012 was a stellar year for Chilean cinema as numerous films from the South American country won prizes at the most prestigious international film festivals. Chile was off to a great start of the New Year winning two prizes at Sundance: Andrés Wood's Violeta se fue a los cielos / Violeta Went to Heaven was awarded the World Cinema Dramatic Jury Prize, while Joven y alocada / Young & Wild, the debut feature film by Marialy Rivas (pictured left) was awarded the World Cinema Screenwriting Prize.
Few weeks later, another first film De jueves a domingo / Thursday till Sunday by Dominga Sotomayor won the Tiger Award, the top prize at the Rotterdam Film Festival. In March Cristián Jiménez’s debut feature Bonsái won the prizes for Best Ibero-American Film and the Screenwriting Award at the 29th edition of the Miami Film Festival.
Pablo Larraín's fourth feature film No (pictured right) had an acclaimed world premiere at Cannes Directors' Fortnight winning the unofficial top prize of the section. Larraín’s is the only Latin American film shortlisted for the Oscars in the Foreign Language Film category. At the San Sebastian Film Festival two other Chilean films were awarded: Fernando Guzzoni’s Carne de perro / Dog Flesh won the prize for Best Film in the New Directors competition, and Sebastián Lelio’s upcoming feature film Gloria won the Cine en Construcción industry prize. Lelio’s film will have its world premiere at the Berlinale in February.
And closing the year with a bang, Chile reigned at the 34th edition of the Havana Film Festival as Larraín’s No and Wood’s Violeta Went to Heaven won the two top prizes. 2013 is looking good for Chilean cinema, as both Sebastián Silva’s new film Crystal Fairy and Alicia Scherson’s El futuro / The future will have their world premiere at Sundance.
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