The Latinamerican Information Agency Prensa Latina convened the foreign press accredited in Cuba to choose the winning film of the Glauber Rocha Award at the 39th Festival of New Latin American Cinema.
Sponsored by the news agency, this collateral prize is intended recognize the fiction feature film that deals with a high level the social reality of the region and the struggle for human improvement.
International media correspondents will select the work winner on December 14, to be delivered the next day at the ceremony of the Festival's collateral prizes, which will take place in this capital from 8 to 17 of the same month.
Founded in 1985, lauro set out to stimulate the movement of the new Latin American cinema, which burst with singular force in the decade of 1960 of the last century in search of a decolonized visual image.
Its promoters decided to give the name of the deceased producer Brazilian Glauber Rocha, one of the pioneers of that movement and creator of a filmography that includes 15 documentaries and films of fiction, among them classics such as Antonio das Mortes and God and the Devil in the land of the sun.
The award consists of a work by a prominent Cuban artist from the plastic and a diploma.
Since its foundation, the prize has been awarded to titles such as La hora de la star, by Suzana Amaral (Brazil), La boca del lobo, by Francisco Lombardi (Peru), Amores perros, by Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico), and A house with a view to the sea, by Alberto Arvelo (Venezuela).
They also conquered Machuca and Violeta went to heaven, both by Andrés Wood (Chile), El baño del Papa, by Enrique Fernández and César Charlone (Uruguay), Habanastation, by Ian Padrón (Cuba), La Golden cage, by Diego Quemada-Diez (Mexico-Spain), and Stories Salvajes, by Damín Szifrón (Argentina).
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