The Venice Film Festival announced today the winners of its 80th edition, which included three Latin American winners from Chile and Colombia.
Pablo Larraín and Guillermo Calderón were the winners of the Best Screenplay Award for El Conde, while Colombian performer Margarita Rosa de Francisco was presented with the Best Actress Award in the Orizzonti competition for her acting in the Italian neo-noir drama El Paraíso by Enrico Maria Artale.
Additionally, American performer Peter Sarsgaard won the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor for his role of Saul in Memory, the latest film by Mexican director Michel Franco.
El Conde is a dark comedy/horror that portrays Augusto Pinochet, a symbol of world fascism, as a vampire who lives hidden in a ruined mansion in the cold southern tip of the continent. Feeding his appetite for evil to sustain his existence. After two hundred and fifty years of life, Pinochet has decided to stop drinking blood and abandon the privilege of eternal life. He can no longer bear that the world remembers him as a thief. Despite the disappointing and opportunistic nature of his family, he finds new inspiration to continue living a life of vital and counterrevolutionary passion through an unexpected relationship.
The 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival took place August 30-September 9 in Italy.
