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HFFNY Announces the Line-Up of 18 Films Competing to Receive the Havana Star Prize
The Havana Film Festival NY (www.HFFNY.com), flagship project of the nonprofit organization American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba (AFLFC), announced the eighteen films competing to receive the Havana Star Prize for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Actress and Best Screenplay, as well as the Havana Star Prize for Best Documentary, which will be awarded on Friday, April 15th at the Closing Night Ceremony (Directors Guild Theater, 6:30 pm). The festival takes place April 7-15 in venues throughout the city, including Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx; the Village East Cinema (2nd Ave and 12th Street) in Manhattan is its main venue. All foreign language films are subtitled in English.
The recipients will be chosen by prominent members of the film industry and art world. In the Fiction Category the jury is: film programmer Zita Morriña; Spanish actor and writer Txemi Parra; Vice Chancellor of Universidad del Cine of Argentina Mario Santos; and art historian and curator Kevin Moore. In the Documentary Category, the jury is: Guatemalan filmmaker Rafael Rosal; Colombian writer and documentarian Carmen Alarcon; and writer and journalist Kevin Canfield.
The 18 films selected come from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and the United States. Many of the filmmakers will be in New York to present their films.
The films competing for the Havana Star Prize in Fiction are:
EL ACOMPAÑANTE / THE COMPANION
Pavel Giroud | Cuba | 2015 | Fiction | 104min
LA GUNGUNA / THE GUNGUNA
Ernesto Alemany | Dominican Republic | 2015 | Fiction | 87min
EL BOSQUE DE KARADIMA
Matías Lira | Chile | 2015 | Fiction | 98min
BAILANDO CON MARGOT / DANCING WITH MARGOT
Arturo Santana | Cuba | 2015 | Fiction | 105min
EVA NO DUERME / EVA DOESN’T SLEEP
Pablo Agüero | Argentina | 2015 | Fiction | 85min
ZOOM
Pedro Morelli | Brazil – Canada | 2015 | Fiction | 96min
CUBA LIBRE
Jorge Luis Sánchez | Cuba | 2015 | Fiction | 120min
MAGALLANES – N.Y Premiere
Salvador del Solar | Peru-Colombia | Fiction | 109 min
PRESOS / IMPRISONED – N.Y. Premiere
Esteban Ramírez | Costa Rica | 2015 | Fiction | 97min
LA PATOTA / PAULINA
Santiago Mitre | Argentina | 2015 | Fiction | 103min
MI AMIGA DEL PARQUE / MY FRIEND FROM THE PARK
Ana Katz | Argentina-Uruguay | 2015 | Fiction | 86min
The films competing for the Havana Star Prize in Documentary are:
EL TREN DE LA LÍNEA NORTE / THE TRAIN ON THE NORTHERN RAILWAY
Marcelo Martín | Cuba | 2015 | Documentary | 80min
ALLENDE, MI ABUELO ALLENDE / BEYOND MY GRANDFATHER ALLENDE
Marcia Tambutti Allende | Chile | 2015 | Documentary | 100min
PACIENTE / PATIENT – N.Y. Premiere
Jorge Caballero | Colombia | 2015 | Documentary | 73min
EL CUARTO DE LOS HUESOS / THE ROOM OF BONES
Marcela Zamora | El Salvador – Mexico | 2015 | Documentary | 60min
MADE IN BANGKOK
Flavio Florencio | Mexico | 2015 | Documentary | 75min
LA PRENDA / THE PAWN
Jean-Cosme Delaloye | Guatemala – Switzerland | 2015 | Documentary | 78min
TIEMPO SUSPENDIDO / TIME SUSPENDED
Natalia Bruschtein | Mexico | 2015 | Documentary | 64 min
This year HFFNY turns 17, making it the longest-running and most established festival celebrating Latin American cinema in the New York tri-state area. HFFNY 2016 will run April 7-15, featuring award-winning films from Cuba and Latin America, many US and NY premieres.
The presenting sponsor of the 17th HFFNY is NBC/Telemundo 47. Additional sponsorship is provided by El Diario/La Prensa, Cuba Travel Networks, Xael Charters, Pod39 Hotel, Latino Artists Round Table (LART), WBAI Radio, The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, Habanero Films, Aguijón Films, The Sound of Two, the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York. HFFNY is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Honorable Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York State legislators and supported, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in collaboration with the City Council.
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.
