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Awards
Results From Cuban Film Fest. The results are in from the 20th Festival
Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latino Americano, which took place in Havana,
Cuba, from December 1-11, 1998. All the the films in competition were from
Latin American countries. The following awards were given out for animated
entries:
The Coral Award for Best Animation: Jonas and Lisa, 9 minutes, directed
by artists Daniel Schorr (Brazil) and Zabelle Coté (Canada). This
beautifully animated film was produced at the National Film Board of Canada
in 1994 and tells the story of a poor child living in the slums of Rio de
Janeiro that is forced to run away from home to escape the abuses of a drunk,
jobless stepfather, a common reality faced by many kids living in the streets
of Rio.
Second Best Animation: Largo es el camino al Cielo (The Path to
Heaven is Distant), 8 minutes, directed by Jose Angel Garcia Morene
(Mexico).
Third Best Animation: Pronto Saldremos del Problema (Soon, We
Will Get Out of the Problem), 4 minutes, a computer animated film directed
by Jorge Ramirez Suarez (Mexico).
Read about the production of "Pronto
Saldremos del Problema" in the January 1998 issue of Animation
World Magazine.
Note: Readers may contact any Animation World Magazine contributor by sending an e-mail to editor@awn.com.
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