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6th ANNUAL CINEMA TROPICAL AWARDS
WINNERS
Best Feature Film:
JAUJA
(Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
Best Documentary Film:
INVASIÓN
(Abner Benaim, Panama)
Best First Film:
IXCANUL (Jayro Bustamante, Guatemala)
Best Director, Feature Film:
Pablo Larraín , EL CLUB / THE CLUB (Chile)
Best Director, Documentary Film:
Betzabé García , LOS REYES DEL PUEBLO QUE NO EXISTE / KINGS OF NOWHERE (Mexico)
Best U.S. Latino Film:
MALA MALA (Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles)
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NOMINATIONS
BEST FICTION FILM
• THE CLUB | EL CLUB (Pablo Larraín, Chile, 2015)
• JAUJA (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina/France, 2014)
• LOS HONGOS (Óscar Ruiz Navia, Colombia/France/Argentina/Germany, 2014)
• THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE | LA PRINCESA DE FRANCIA (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina/USA, 2014)
• WHITE OUT, BLACK IN | BRANCO SAI, PRETO FICA (Adirley Queirós, Brazil, 2014)
BEST DIRECTOR, FICTION FILM
• Gabriel Mascaro, AUGUST WINDS | VENTOS DE AGOSTO (Brazil, 2014)
• Pablo Larraín, THE CLUB | EL CLUB (Chile, 2015)
• Nicolás Pereda, THE ABSENT | LOS AUSENTES (Mexico, 2014)
• Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas, SAND DOLLARS | DÓLARES DE ARENA (Dominican Republic/Mexico/Argentina, 2014)
• Paz Fábrega, VIAJE (Costa Rica, 2015)
BEST FIRST FILM
• 600 MILES (Gabriel Ripstein, Mexico, 2015)
• THE FIRE | EL INCENDIO (Juan Schnitman, Argentina, 2015)
• IXCANUL (Jayro Bustamante, Guatemala/France, 2015)
• SHE COMES BACK ON THURSDAY | ELA VOLTA NA QUINTA (Andrés Novais Oliveira, Brazil, 2014)
• VIDEOPHILIA (AND OTHER VIRAL SYNDROMES) | VIDEOFILIA (Y OTROS SÍNDROMES VIRALES) (Juan Daniel F. Molero, Peru, 2015)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
• A COMMITTEE CHRONICLE | CRÓNICA DE UN COMITÉ (José Luis Sepúlveda and Carolina Adriazola, Chile, 2014)
• IDENTIFICATION PHOTOS | RETRATOS DE IDENTIFICAÇAO (Anita Leandro, Brazil, 2014)
• INVASION | INVASIÓN (Abner Benaim, Panama, 2014)
• LAST CONVERSATIONS | ÚLTIMAS CONVERSAS (Eduardo Coutinho, Brazil, 2015)
• MONTE ADENTRO (Nicolás Macario Alonso, Colombia/Argentina, 2014)
• Karina García Casanova, JUANICAS (Mexico, 2014)
• Betzabé García, KINGS OF NOWHERE | LOS REYES DEL PUEBLO QUE NO EXISTE (Mexico, 2015)
• Maíra Bühler and Matias Mariani, I TOUCHED ALL YOUR STUFF | A VIDA PRIVADA DOS HIPOPÓTAMOS (Brazil, 2014)
• Aldo Garay, THE NEW MAN | EL HOMBRE NUEVO (Uruguay, 2015)
• Christopher Murray, PROPAGANDA (Chile, 2014)
BEST U.S. LATINO FILM
• THE BOOK OF LIFE (Jorge Gutierrez, USA, 2014)
• EAST SIDE SUSHI (Anthony Lucero, USA, 2014)
• MALA MALA (Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles, USA/Puerto Rico, 2014)
• ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon USA, 2014)
• WE LIKE IT LIKE THAT (Mathew Ramirez Warren, USA, 2014)
The Awards Ceremony will be held Wednesday, January 20, 2016, at the New York Times Company headquarters in New York City.
The award-winning films will be screened February 25-28, 2016, at Museum of Moving Image in New York City.
FICTION JURY
Paul Dallas is a Brooklyn-based writer, journalist, and programmer. He has contributed to Artforum, BOMB, Cinema Scope, Extra Extra, Film Comment, Filmmaker, IndieWire and Interview. He has organized screenings and series for Columbia University, Guggenheim Museum, Maylses Cinema, and Union Docs. He studied filmmaking at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a graduate of The Cooper Union's School of Architecture. He is a 2015 Robert Flaherty Fellow and a 2008 Schindler Fellow at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles. Recently, he assisted on Michael Almereyda's new sci-fi drama Marjorie Prime, and is developing a narrative feature with director Frédéric Tcheng.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Sandra Kogut has lived and worked in Brazil, France and the USA first as an artist creating performance pieces and installations and then turning to documentary and fiction films. Her work has been featured at The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum (New York), the Harvard Film Archive and the Forum des Images (Paris). Kogut’s first feature Mutum premiered at the Cannes Film Festival (Director’s Fortnight) and went on to numerous festivals including Toronto, Berlin, Rotterdam and others, receiving more than twenty awards worldwide. She recently premiered her most recent film Campo Grande at the Toronto Film Festival, for which she won the award for Best Director at the Havana Film Festival.
Davis Schwartz is Chief Curator at Museum of the Moving Image in New York, where he has worked since 1985. He is responsible for the Museum’s wide-ranging film screenings, including the First Look Festival –a showcase of groundbreaking international cinema– and is a key member of the exhibition planning team. He was the co-curator of the exhibition "What’s Up Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones." Schwartz is also a visiting professor in Cinema Studies at Purchase College in the New York State University.
NON-FICTION JURY
Amalia Córdova is a film curator, filmmaker and scholar specializing in indigenous film. She is the Assistant Director of New York University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and is the former Latin American Program Manager for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian’s Film and Video Center, where she organized video tours, film festivals and international screenings. She has also been a panelist, moderator, selector and juror at international indigenous film festivals, including the Morelia International Film Festival and the CLACPI International Film and Video Festival of Indigenous Peoples.
Aaron Cutler is a film critic and programmer based in São Paulo. He has worked as a programming aide for the São Paulo International Film Festival and programmed or co-programmed retrospectives devoted to the filmmakers Lav Diaz, Heinz Emigholz, and Kira Muratova. Many of his film writings for outlets including Brooklyn Magazine, Cineaste, and Slant Magazine can be found at his website, The Moviegoer (http://aaroncutler.tumblr.com).
Dominic Davis currently works as Programmer for Rooftop Films festival in New York City. He has a degree in mass media studies and political science from the University of Kentucky. In 2011, he took a job with the film office of the Sundance Film Festival, where he discovered film programming as a profession. He has previously programmed for the American Museum of Natural History and its Margaret Mead Film Festival, and the Tribeca Film Festival. He has served on advisory panels and grant and film juries across the globe.
U.S. LATINO JURY
Vanessa Erazo has always been a big film fan. Growing up bilingual, she eventually discovered the rich variety of Latino films but noticed they were hard to find. The search for these movies led her to work for Latino film festivals in San Francisco, New York, and Mexico City. After receiving an M.A. in Latin American Studies from New York University, she served as the Documentary Programmer at the New York International Latino Film Festival and is now the Editor of the Film section at Remezcla. She is also the co-creator of LatinoBuzz, a weekly column on Indiewire, and Co-Director of Cinelandia, an online guide to Latino films playing across the U.S.
Dr. Michelle Leigh Farrell is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Fairfield University in Connecticut. She teaches Spanish and Portuguese language as well as Caribbean and Latin American film and literature. In her research Dr. Farrell focuses on the changing national film industries in twenty-first century Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil. She also researches the independent filmmakers who work beyond the state structures in these three countries. She is a recipient of the American Association of University Women Short-Term Publication Grant and a Summer Scholar-in-Residence at the NYU Faculty Research Network. Dr. Farrell is also a recipient of the American Philosophical Society Lewis and Clark Field Research Grant.
Diana Vargas is the Artistic Director of the Havana Film Festival New York and the founder and programmer for CortoCircuito/ShortCuts Latino Short Film Festival of New York. She is also a producer and media liaison with the CUNY-TV series Nueva York for which she has received two consecutive Emmys. She received several international awards for the documentary series Rostros y Rastros. As a journalist she has published in newspapers and magazines including Hoy (New York City), El Puente Latino, Kinetoscopio (Colombia) and La Opinión (Los Angeles). She also has served as juror in many international film festival and curated programs for different organizations in Latin America and U.S.
NOMINATING COMMITTEE
- Fábio Andrade, Editor and film critic, Revista Cinética, Brazil
- Juan Pablo Bastarrachea, Programmer, Cine Tonalá, Mexico
- Consuelo Castillo, Project Coordinator, DOCTV Latinoamérica, Colombia
- Fernando del Razo, Programmer, Riviera Maya Film Festival, Mexico
- Vanessa Erazo, Film Editor, Remezcla, USA
- Luis Gonzalez Zaffaroni, Executive Director, DocMontevideo, Uruguay
- James Lattimer, programmer and film critic, Berlinale's Forum, Germany
- Alicia Morales, Executive Director, Lima Film Festival, Peru
- Joel Poblete, journalist, film critic, and Programmer, SANFIC, Santiago, Chile
- Andrea Stavenhagen, Delegate, San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain, and Coordinator, Impulso Morelia, Mexico
- Charles Tesson, Artistic Director, Critics' Week, Cannes, France
- Raúl Niño Zambrano, Programmer, International Documentary Film Festival - IDFA, Netherlands
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Marcela Goglio studied Communication and Film in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she was born. She lived in Mexico, El Salvador and Costa Rica before moving to New York to study Film and Literature at Columbia University. Since 1999 she has been the programmer of Latinbeat, Film Society of Lincoln Center’s annual festival of new Latin American cinema.
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Rachael A. Rakes was recently appointed Programmer at Large at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, where she co-programs the annual Art of the Real series. She has worked as a programmer and curator for the past 13 years, most recently as Assistant Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image and has organized exhibitions, and screenings for institutions such as Millennium Film Workshop, UnionDocs, Heliopolis Project Space, 92Y Tribeca, ArteEast, and Artists Television Access. She is currently editor of the film section for The Brooklyn Rail, and writes about art and film for Artforum, Art Papers, BOMB, and Hyperallergic. For the past 14 years, she has also worked in independent book publishing as an editor, publicist, and marketing manager at various presses including Verso Books, The Feminist Press, and AK Press.
José Rodríguez is the Manager of Documentary Programming at Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) where he oversees funding for all of the documentary funds and leads the TFI Latin America FundÙs Filmmaker Workshop series. A native of Puerto Rico, he grew up with a passion for movies that led him to Syracuse University, where he wrote a feature script and directed two shorts. After interning as an assistant to producer Amy Hobby, he settled in New York City and became a script/book reader for Overture Films while also working on commercials, short films and features (including Tze Chun's Children of Invention and the documentary Poor Consuelo Conquers the World).
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Melissa Anderson is a regular contributor to Artforum and Artforum.com; she also writes for the Village Voice. She was the film editor and a film critic for Time Out New York, and a member of the New York Film Festival selection committee between 2009 and 2012. 
Mike Maggiore programs the premieres for New York's Film Forum alongside Director Karen Cooper. He is also responsible for promoting many of the premieres during their runs at Film Forum. He has served on the committees of Film Independent's Truer Than Fiction Award and the Sundance Documentary Fund; and was the Assistant Director of the Film and Video Department of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Julia Solomonoff is an award-winning Argentinean writer, director and producer. She is the writer and director of The Last Summer of la Boyita (2009), which was co-produced by Pedro Almodóvar’s El Deseo SA and won over 20 international awards. Her directorial debut, Hermanas (2005), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. As a producer, her credits include Julia Murat’s Historias que existem quando lembradas and Ana Piterbarg's Everybody’s Got a Plan. A Fulbright Scholar, Solomonoff teaches Film Directing at Columbia University School of the Arts. 
Chris Allen is the Founder and Director of UnionDocs, a Center for Documentary Art based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. After graduating from Columbia University and studying at Trinity College Dublin, Allen worked as a social entrepreneur, documentary director, and new media artist. His individual works and collaborative projects have been exhibited at the MoMA, Harvard’s Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, the Volksbühne Theatre, DirektorenHaus in Berlin, Independent Film Week, Sonár, DIVA, and Conflux Festivals, among many other venues. 
Paco de Onís most recently released Granito (Sundance 2011), a documentary detective story focused on the role of filmic and archival documentation in the prosecution of a genocide case against Guatemalan generals. He previously produced The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court (Sundance 2009), and State of Fear, a film about Peru’s 20-year “war on terror” based on the findings of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Paco is a partner at Skylight Pictures, and previously produced documentaries for PBS, National Geographic, and a range of other programs. 
Anita Reher is the Executive Director of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. She is an international consultant with twenty years of experience connecting filmmakers to the documentary community and was a co-founder of the European Documentary Network (EDN). She began her career with the MEDIA Program of the European Union working for the creative DOCUMENTARY project.
Beth Janson is the Executive Director of the Tribeca Film Institute (TFI). She joined TFI in 2004 to launch its Tribeca All Access program, which quickly grew to become an important forum for US-based filmmakers from diverse backgrounds to promote their projects. She held a variety of positions prior to TFI including Programming Director for the 2003 Newport International Film Festival and working as a part of the HBO Documentary Films/Cinemax Reel Life programming team. At HBO, she worked on American Standoff, The Young and the Dead, Journeys with George and Shelter Dogs.
Daniel Loría is the Overseas Editor at BoxOffice. His writing has also appeared on Indiewire, The L Magazine, Remezcla, Not Coming to a Theater Near You, and the official blogs of Cinema Tropical and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. 
Maria-Christina Villaseñor is an independent curator, writer, media maker and consultant on nonprofit arts administration and fundraising. From 1996 to 2007, she curated film and media arts exhibitions for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York as well as the Guggenheim Museums in Berlin and Bilbao. She has also guest-curated media programs for numerous organizations internationally such as Creative Time, Exit Art, the Havana International Film Festival, and the Museo de Bellas Artes Buenos Aires.
