The Argentine filmmaker Martin Benchimol rose this Wednesday with the Industry Award and the Egeda Platinum Industry Award for the Best Work in Progress (WIP) in Latin America for his film in the final phase “The Castle”.
Both awards consist of economic aid or supplies or studies for the completion of the film, in the post-production stage.
“It’s my first time in San Sebastian, for a documentary to be at a festival like this is a big leap, and to win two prizes, not to mention. It’s a giant boost, for the film,” Benchimol assured in a chat with Télam minutes after receiving the award. laurel.
“It’s my first time in San Sebastian, for a documentary to be at a festival like this is a big leap, and to win two prizes, not to mention. It’s a giant boost for the film”Martin Benchimol
“Beyond this – remarked the filmmaker – these days I am following with concern the issue of the continuity of the specific appropriations for cultural industries that the Senate must vote on to guarantee the continuity of entities such as the Incaa, which allow the development of this industry.”
Benchimol brought to San Sebastian an advanced cut of his documentary “El Castillo”, which is about a mother and her daughter today, after the mother, who had been a domestic worker all her life, inherited a castle from her former employer with the request that he take care of it and not sell it.
“The documentary takes place in the province of Buenos Aires and tells this story with the present of the two women in the castle”, Benchimol summed up.
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The award for European Films in Development (WIP Europe) was won by the Turkish film “Tereddut Cizgisi”by Selman Nacar.
While the awards for the XI Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum for Best Project went to “Six months in the pink and blue building”, of Bruno Santamaria Razofrom Mexico, which won the Dale Award (Latin America-Europe Development) and the Artekino International Prize.
