mexican short films win in spain and japan....
Mexican short films have given the world something to talk about and yesturday Here Goes The Hymn (Aqui Iba el Himno), by Sergio Umansky, Edgar Dan Juan and Ibon Antuyano, have been able to raise with triumph in contests made in Spain and Japan, respectively.
They won in the fourth edition of the contest of the Latin American Aid of Short films Spanish Version, the second award they were given was in the Great Prize of the Jury in the Short Films Festival in Tokyo, the most important in Asia. With this, it sums up to 10 international recognitions this mexican short film has recieved in the present year. Una Bala production of Imcine, Conculta and The Lift obtained 2,888.61 dollars, during its exhibtion in theaters in Japan.
Pablo Cruz, producer of "Una Bala", explained that the economical award will be used in the making of new scripts. "I believe we are here for an adventure, more than for an award, but when the ceremony started and we saw the result....wow! It felt great, increible, it was really cool", expresed Cruz by phone from Tokyo.
"We will invest that award into other projects with scripts or with something related because we don't want to stop doing things".
"Amores Perro", recognized, it was the film that opened the way to Mexican Cinema in the Asian continent. "There existes a certain type of love between the Japanese and Mexicans, I believe they were interested in seeing something more of our country", said Cruz, who with the companionship of the film directors, recieved the award from the hands of Seigo Tono, director of the festival.
"Una Bala" was exhibited in the official section as representative of Mexico, where 45 productions from different nations competed, among them Golden Palace 2, of the carioca Fernando Meireles, also creatir of City of God.
Una Bala se exhibió en la sección oficial como representante único de México, donde competían producciones de 45 distintas naciones, entre las que destacaba Golden Palace 2, del carioca Fernando Meireles, también creador de Ciudad de Dios.
Mexican Shortfilm exhibited in Spain television
The award obtained by "Here Goes the Hymn" (Aqui Iba el Himno), of Sergio Umansky, is guaranteed to be exhibited in spanish screens in 5 occasiones, an economical award of about 18,988.42 dollars and the director Sergio Umansky will be interviewed, probably by Pedro Almodovar or Alejandro Amenabar.
For each public exhibition, the producer will recieve about 1,425.82 dollars. To recieve the award, Umansky, who is 29 yrs old, will go to Spain the next weekend, where he will be at for 5 days.
"I believe its a great award, because this, like the others I have won, give a great name to the short film and me the possiblity that people will know me and when I will have another project, the people will support it.
"I don't know if Almodovar o Amenabar will interview me, that I don't know yet, that is what is being rumored to be, I'll find out when I'm there. And if thats it, then its great", he commented by phone.
"Here Goes the Hymn" (Aqui Iba el Himno) starring Kuno Becker, tells the story of two young guys of high class, who are arrested by judicial agents and who demand ransom to let them go.
In the contested it surpassed 22 other works, among those, the mexican work La Milpa, recent winner of the Oscar of the Golden Student, and some of originating ones of Spain, Argentina and Cuba.
