Xavier Guerra Carmenates, president of the AHS in Camagüey, thanked all the participants, institutions that awarded collateral awards, the jury and the public for making the objectives of the exhibition possible and extended the invitation to next year’s delivery
Camagüey, Cuba, October 29th.- The fiction short Levedad, directed by Cristhian Menéndez, won the City Lights Award at the XXXIII El Almacén de la Imagen Audiovisual Exhibition, organized by the local branch of the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS, Spanish Acronym).
The jury, made up of filmmakers Lourdes de los Santos, Rudy Mora and Vladimir Emilio García, highlighted “the excellent combination of all the technical-artistic elements to achieve a high-level poetic proposal”.
The material, filmed during a week in the Camagüey municipality of Nuevitas during the last calendar, deserved the laurels in Fiction, Photography and Editing; these last specialties assumed by José Fornet.
After the award, the director told Radio Camagüey that it is the story of a man who decided to marginalize himself from society and lives in a house surrounded by insects and other animals, but in his old age he receives a box of photographs of all the stages of life his life from which he reflects on the time he lost.
Also awarded were the pieces Telón (Henry de Armas), in Animation; in Promotional the product La caja (Marianne Portuondo); Sueños, Short by Ricardo La Paz Cervantes; and in Documentary José Ángel Pérez stood out with La obra.
For specialties, Iván Bustinduy was recognized for Direction and Script, Dayron Ortiz for Original Music, Shaid -Fbiana Mansur for Art Direction, and Richi Castro for Sound.
At the evening, which was held at the House of the Young Creator, the Fiction and Animation Pitching were also awarded. In the first case, the Islas naufragas project, by Ricardo de la Paz Cervantes, deserved it, “for addressing a highly complex issue for Cuban society, expressing a look towards values of national identity”; and in the second section the proposal El milagro de la vida, by Melissa Sanz, «for being an instrument for education and training at an early age, creating a line of communication between children and adults».
Xavier Guerra Carmenates, president of the AHS in Camagüey, thanked all the participants, institutions that awarded collateral awards, the jury and the public for making the objectives of the exhibition possible and extended the invitation to next year’s presentation.
By Diosmel Galano Oliver/Radio Camagüey