Celeste Cid, one of the guests of the International Film Festival of the Heights, whose eighth edition ends today.
The International Festival of Cinema of the Heights, which takes place in Jujuy and is one of the most important cinema events in the region, closes its eighth edition. Organized by the provincial government, it started on Friday 2nd of this month and ends today with face-to-face and online screening of the main award-winning Andean films.
This year, the event had a thematic axis focusing on films produced in Argentina and the Andean nucleus made up of Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. Among the invited figures, Luciano Cáceres said present.
After two editions carried out completely online – due to the pandemic -, this delivery has returned to shine with the return of the public that fills the halls, talks and meetings, the presence of directors, actresses, actors, professionals from different disciplines of the audiovisual field and a solid program which included the screening of over 120 films.
44 of these films competed in the different categories of the festival: “Fictional Feature Films”, “Documentaries”, “NOA Short Films” and “Work in Progress Projects”, and in parallel sections such as “New Technologies”, “Environmental Cinema”, “Animation”, “Cinema and Cannabis” and “Gender and Diversity Perspective”.
The figures and the deed of delivery
Celeste Cid, Luciano Cáceres, Luis Machín, Mora Recalde, Sabrina Fajri, Andrea Frigerio and Martín Desalvon are some of the most recognized figures who went to the capital San Salvador de Jujuy this week to attend the event.
The awards ceremony was held this Saturday, chaired by festival authorities, Daniel Desaloms (artistic director), Diana Frey (executive producer), Facundo Morales (general coordinator) and Jimena Muñoz (general producer).
“People now come (to Jujuy) to see movies, not just to tour,” said Desaloms, the festival’s artistic director since its inception in 2015. “Before, northwestern Argentina did not have the status in cinema it has now with the Cine de las Alturas festival”added in the act in which the best achievements in the aforementioned categories were distinguished.
Desaloms also pointed out that the festival exhibits “Movies you don’t see anywhere”and that this implies “an opportunity to get to know the culture and how our Latin American brothers live”.
Some of the winners
Command Chapby Peruvian director Henry Vallejo, won the “Best Picture” award. Argentine Maximiliano Schonfeld has imposed himself as “Best Director” for his work on the film Jesús López; Y “Seven Dogs”, by Argentina’s Rodrigo Guerrero, got the public vote.
The “Best Screenplay” went to the Colombians Joan Gomez Endara and Ivan Sierra, for the film The red tree. Pablo Paniagua, from the Bolivian film the big move was chosen as “Best Director of Photography” and the Argentine Tania Casciani She won “Best Performance” for her work on the film La Calma.
The best documentary film was Once upon a time there was Venezuela, from Venezuelan Anabel Rodríguez Ríos. In the “Short NOA” category, the winning short film was There they come, by Pedro Ponde Uda and Lucas Garcia Melodirectors of Tucumán.
The formal closure of this eighth edition of the International Film Festival of the Heights will be this Sunday with the exhibition of the winning films for the best production of its competition, which will be screened at 17 and 19 in the halls of the city shopping center. Tickets are free and must be collected one hour before the start of the shows.
CJL
Source: Clarin
