To close this year’s edition, the Los Cabos International Film Festival was honored to conduct an intimate panel “The Academy: 364 days a year”, where David Rubin, recently elected president to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Lorenza Muñoz, executive director of Awards and Relations, talked with festival public about the annual activities of the Academy beyond the Oscars.

 LCIFF  continued with an unprecedented panel, designed to identify and attempt to understand the photographic works, from personal experiences and the transformations through which this key position in film creation Is going through. “Extraordinary looks”, with cinematographers Agnès Godard, Ashley Connor and María Secco.

During the closing ceremony, four very special awards were handed out.

 The tribute to Excellence in Cinematography for Ellen Kuras, the first person to win three times best dramatic photography Award at Sundance, As well as being Governor of the Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts and Science, in her representation, David Rubin, president of the Academy received the recognition on her behalf. The Spotlights Award went to Mexican director Tatiana Huezo and American director Ira Sachs, Both having retrospective showings during the festival. And the International Star Award for Eiza González for her contribution to the visibility of Latin talent in the global film industry.

Also, prizes were awarded to films in the Official Selection. Winning projects of the Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund were:

OFFICIAL SELECTION

Los Cabos Competition Award: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by Matthew Rankin. The film's producers received a prize of $ 300,000 MXN in cash.

Cinemex Award - Mexico First: LA PALOMA Y EL LOBO, by Carlos Lenin. The director of the film received, thanks to Cinemex, $ 300,000 MXN in cash

Cinemex Audience Award: Observar las Aves (Observe the Birds), by Andrea Martínez Crowther. By vote of the Los Cabos public film received $ 300,000 MXN in cash.

Art Kingdom Trailer Award: Observar las Aves (Observe the Birds), by Andrea Martínez Crowther. Art Kingdom Showbiz Agency awarded a prize worth $ 760,000 MXN for the realization of a film trailer, from the creative process to the DCP, including the creation of a poster and a social media campaign for eight weeks.

GABRIEL FIGUEROA FILM FUND - FILM IN DEVELOPMENT

 

CTT Expendables & Rentals Award: Temporada de Huracanes (Hurricane Season), by Elisa Miller. This project will have support In the amount of  $ 1,280,067 MXN in film equipment rental.

Talent on the Road / World Talent House Award: Temporada de Huracanes (Hurricane Season, by Elisa Miller. The team that develops this film won a prize of $ 150,000 MXN.

Piano Award: Todos los Incendios( All the fires), from Mauricio Calderón Rico, received a prize of $ 100,000 MXN for distribution expenses.

Marché du Film Award. Nicole Maynard, producer of Preciosísima Sangre (Precious Blood) , obtained an accreditation for the Producers Network platform of the Marché du Film de Cannes. The prize includes a round flight to attend the event.

GABRIEL FIGUEROA FILM FUND –EPISODIC CONTENTS IN DEVELOPMENT

CTT Exp. & Rentals Award: Masa Madre, of Mercedes Córdova, was worth $ 498,500 in film equipment rental.

Cinecolor México Award TV Trailer: Aventurología, by Ricardo Castro. The team that develops this film won a prize of $ 348,000 MXN in postproduction services for the realization of a trailer.

Promo Award Trailer Art Kingdom: My interior is one of the most beautiful and strange things in the world, by Nicolasa Ruiz. Prize worth $ 97,500 MXN in creative and postproduction services for the realization of a promo trailer.

GABRIEL FIGUEROA FILM FUND - WORK IN PROGRESS

Los Cabos Work in Progress Award: Dioses de México, by Helmut Dosantos. Thisfilm in  post-production received a prize of $ 200,000 MXN in cash.

Chemistry + Disruptive Film & Sound Award: Things We Don't Do, from Bruno Santamaría Razo, received  support for $ 2,340,000 MXN in image and sound postproduction services.

Cinecolor México Award: Flora and Fauna, by Nicolás Pereda, obtained 100 hours of color correction services at the sponsors of this award and the development of a DCP.

3rd CINEMATOGRAPHIC CRITICISM CONTEST:

Winner: Amira Ortiz. The young critic received this recognition granted for the third time by the International Festival of Los Cabos, in collaboration with Sensacine México and Cinegarage.

During the closing gala, Jojo Rabbit, by Taika Waititi, a director very present in the history of the festival, was screened. In the film, Jojo suffers an accident during his training to join the Nazi army and this forces him to rehabilitate at home, where he discovers that his mother is hiding a young Jew. His world is falling apart and not even his imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, can help him.

Translation by Tony Perez Dillon