The Cuban short film First teaching He obtained this Saturday one of the awards of the Locarno Film Festival, in Switzerland.
The film, directed by the Cuban Aria Sánchez, also a screenwriter; And the Brazilian Marina Meira, won the best direction award in the section PARDI DI DOMANI, of the 78th edition of the event.
First teaching It was co -produced by the independent Cuban producer Wajiros Films and the Spanish IVI Productions. In addition, the 4th collaboration had. Island (Cuba-Perú-Colombia), Corojo Cinema (Cuba) and the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV), of which both directors are graduated.
With this work, Sánchez and Meira began their own filmmaker who, under the name of the productions, also assumed a role inside Early childhoodand already works on the search for funds for two new short films and a feature film.
With this, both directors confirm their intention to maintain a path as a creative pair.
Of 14 minutes, the short one integrated along with another twenty materials the selection that “presents short films and media films in world or international premieres, exploring the possible paths that the cinema of the future could take,” according to the official site of the Locarno Festival to the section to the section PARDI DI DOMANI.
The film had its world premiere on August 7 at the Locarno Festival itself.
Its directors They declared to Rialta News that the tape “turned out not to be quite documentary, or at all fiction” and that “it is realistic to such an extreme point that it also becomes fantastic, which was not thought of as a genre film, but causes strong sensations.”
Early childhood It was completely shot in Cuba with a majority of Cuban team and fully achieved in less than four months.
“Daniela must make an absolute rest of voice. Clarita, given the inability of adults to handle the situation, she intends to turn Daniela into her puppet, and silence her forever,” says the Wafiros Films tape, in a publication where she announced her inclusion in the selection of the Locarno Film Festival.
“Thank you infinite to Equipe, our girls, the actresses and actor, whom he contributed, whom he shared, to whom he sent good energy and was glad,” he wrote on his Instagram Aria Sánchez profile by making the news of the award known.
Two Cuban filmmakers too They were awarded in the last edition of the Locarno Film Festival In its Open Doors section, which together with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (COSUDE) aims to support filmmakers from underrepresented regions worldwide and countries where cinema as a form of expression is at risk.
Now, in addition to the short co -produced between Cuba and other countries, Latin America also took the award for the best emerging filmmaker, in the Concroso Cinesti section of the present. The winner was the Argentine of Korean origin Cecilia Kang, with her film Eldest son.
The main lauro of the Festival, the gold leopard, deserved the Japanese film Two Seasons, Two Strangersby director Sho Miyake. For its part, White Snailby Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter (Austria / Germany) won the Jury Grand Prix, and the leopard for the best direction was for the Lebanese Abbas Fahdel, by Tales of the Wouneded Land.
