The Dominican film Sugar Island by Johanné Gómez Terrero has won Best Latin American Film of the Year at the 16th Annual Cinema Tropical Awards in New York City.
Brazilian filmmaker Marcelo Caetano won the award for Best Director for Baby, and Cuban director Miguel Coyula’s Chronicles of the Absurd (Crónicas del absurdo) took home the Best Non-Fiction Film award.
Mexican director Ernesto Martínez Bucio’s The Devil Smokes [El diablo fuma (y guarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja)] was the winner for Best First Film.
In the U.S. Latinx cinema category, Travis Gutiérrez Senger’s Asco: Without Permission was named Best Film, with Joel Alfonso Vargas’s Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) receiving a Special Mention.
The Secret Agent director Kleber Mendonça Filho presented the awards for Best Director and Best Film at the award ceremony hosted by Spectrum Noticias anchor and producer Philip Klint/
Complete List of Winners — 16th Annual Cinema Tropical Awards:
Best Fiction Film: Sugar Island by Johanné Gómez Terrero, Dominican Republic
Best Director: Baby by Marcelo Caetano, Brazil
Best Non-Fiction Film: Chronicles of the Absurd by Miguel Coyula, Cuba
Best First Film: T`he Devil Smokes by Ernesto Martínez Bucio, Mexico
Best U.S. Latinx Film: Asco: Without Permission by Travis Gutiérrez Senger
Special Mention, Best U.S. Latinx Film: Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) by Joel Alfonso Vargas
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