The 2015 Los Cabos International Film Festival presented its award prizes to the winning films of the two Official Selection competitions –México Primero and Competencia Los Cabos– and the ones participating in the Industry platforms –Cabos in Progress and Cabos Discovery. In addition, The Protagonist Award: Excellence in Acting was given to Ewan McGregor.
PARALLEL PRIZES
The Cabos Discovery CTT EXP & Rentals Award was presented to Paulina del Paso for her film A flor de piel (Skin Deep).
The Cabos in Progress Chemistry Award was presented by Chemistry Director Andrés Martínez to Sebastián Hiriart for Carroña (Carrion)
The Cabos in Progress FOX+ Award was presented to the film La habitación (The bedroom) directed by Carlos Carrera, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Carlos Bolado, Ernesto Contreras, Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, Alejandro Valle, Iván Ávila Dueñas and Natalia Beristáin.
In addition, the Producers Network Badge Award was given to Mayra Espinosa, producer of the film Calla (Keep Quiet), presented in the Cabos Discovery platform.
Among the parallel prizes awarded to the Official Selection competing films, the México Primero Art Kingdom Award was presented to Jack Zagha for his film Almacenados (Warehoused).
The México Primero FOX+ Award was given to Alejandra Márquez’ Semana Santa.
INDUSTRY AWARDS
Jessica Sanders’ Picking Cotton received the Cabos Discovery Award.
Ricardo Silva’s El Fracaso received the Cabos in Progress Award.
OFFICIAL SELECTION AWARDS
The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) presented its Best Mexican Film Award to Te prometo anarquía (I Promise You Anarchy), directed by Julio Hernández Cordón. (pictured above)
México Primero – Cinemex Award for the Best Film was presented to Julio Hernández Cordón for Te prometo anarquía (I Promise You Anarchy).
And the Competencia Los Cabos Cinemex Award winner was Lenny Abrahamson’s Room.
The Cinemex Audience Award was also given to Room, by Lenny Abrahamson.
THE 2015 PROTAGONIST AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ACTING
The 2015 Protagonist Award for Excellence in Acting was given to Ewan McGregor.Los Cabos International Film Festival
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“I Promise You Anarchy,” “Room,” Ewan McGregor Among Award Winners of 2015 Los Cabos International Film Festival
The 2015 Los Cabos International Film Festival presented its award prizes to the winning films of the two Official Selection competitions –México Primero and Competencia Los Cabos– and the ones participating in the Industry platforms –Cabos in Progress and Cabos Discovery. In addition, The Protagonist Award: Excellence in Acting was given to Ewan McGregor.
PARALLEL PRIZES
The Cabos Discovery CTT EXP & Rentals Award was presented to Paulina del Paso for her film A flor de piel (Skin Deep).
The Cabos in Progress Chemistry Award was presented by Chemistry Director Andrés Martínez to Sebastián Hiriart for Carroña (Carrion)
The Cabos in Progress FOX+ Award was presented to the film La habitación (The bedroom) directed by Carlos Carrera, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Carlos Bolado, Ernesto Contreras, Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, Alejandro Valle, Iván Ávila Dueñas and Natalia Beristáin.
In addition, the Producers Network Badge Award was given to Mayra Espinosa, producer of the film Calla (Keep Quiet), presented in the Cabos Discovery platform.
Among the parallel prizes awarded to the Official Selection competing films, the México Primero Art Kingdom Award was presented to Jack Zagha for his film Almacenados (Warehoused).
The México Primero FOX+ Award was given to Alejandra Márquez’ Semana Santa.
INDUSTRY AWARDS
Jessica Sanders’ Picking Cotton received the Cabos Discovery Award.
Ricardo Silva’s El Fracaso received the Cabos in Progress Award.
OFFICIAL SELECTION AWARDS
The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) presented its Best Mexican Film Award to Te prometo anarquía (I Promise You Anarchy), directed by Julio Hernández Cordón. (pictured above)
México Primero – Cinemex Award for the Best Film was presented to Julio Hernández Cordón for Te prometo anarquía (I Promise You Anarchy).
And the Competencia Los Cabos Cinemex Award winner was Lenny Abrahamson’s Room.
The Cinemex Audience Award was also given to Room, by Lenny Abrahamson.
THE 2015 PROTAGONIST AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ACTING
The 2015 Protagonist Award for Excellence in Acting was given to Ewan McGregor.
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Ewan McGregor to Receive Award at Los Cabos International Film Festival and Screen “Last Days in the Desert”
Actor and director Ewan McGregor will attend the upcoming Los Cabos International Film Festival where he will be presented with the Protagonist Award for Excellence in Acting. The award statuette was designed by acclaimed Mexican artist Gabriel Macotela. McGregor will also present the special screening of his film, Last Days in the Desert, accompanied by its director –and festival special guest– Rodrigo García. The film, widely praised by the critics when premiered at Sundance Film Festival this year, is an imaginative version of Jesus’ 40 days of fasting in the desert.
Ewan McGregor is mesmerizing as he takes on two of history’s most complicated and misunderstood characters: Jesus Christ and the Devil.
Director Rodrigo Garcia reimagines Christ’s last days of fasting in the desert as he walks back to civilization. In the midst of the harsh landscape, fatigued and hallucinating, Christ is met by the Devil, who is eager to test and tempt the weary traveler. Their profound ruminations on faith and truth demonstrate Garcia’s power as a screenwriter and McGregor’s determination to portray Jesus in a different light. By focusing on Christ’s fallibility and innocence, new dimensions of the prophet and the man create a fascinating character study. But Christ’s real test comes when he befriends a family on his travels and is caught up in a dispute that forces a powerful confrontation with his own fate.
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DEMOLITION Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts to Open 2015 Los Cabos International Film Festival ; Fest to Feature Retrospective of Alex Ross Perry’s Films
The 2015 Los Cabos International Film Festival will honor Quebecois writer and director Jean-Marc Vallée for his exceptional career achievements. After having presented Dallas Buyers Club (Los Cabos 2013 Closing Gala) and Wild (Los Cabos 2014 Opening Gala) as Latin American premieres, the Festival will host the Latin American Premiere of Demolition as the Opening Gala of this fourth edition. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts and Chris Cooper, the film opened the Toronto International Film Festival. In addition to the opening night film “Demolition” the festival will also feature two of the Vallée’s cornerstone films, C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) and Café de Flore (2011), to complete the tribute and retrospective to his work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTJ1qS7KOm4
The Festival launches a new program: Spotlight, to stress the Festival’s artistic focus and look at North America’s filmmakers, who have a central role in shaping contemporary cinema. This year the festival will feature a retrospective of Alex Ross Perry’s work. In spite of his age, 31-year-old Perry has become known at film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin and Locarno, with all of them having selected at least one of his four feature films: Impolex (2009), The Color Wheel (2011), Listen Up Phillip (Los Cabos 2014 Official Selection) and Queen of Earth, which will have its Latin American Premiere at Los Cabos this year. He will be accompanied by his regular co-worker, Sean Price Williams, one of the key cinematographers in current American independent cinema.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzPgN8eEI-c
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2015 Los Cabos International Film Festival Reveals Films in Tastes, B-Side and American Specials Sections
The 2015 Los Cabos International Film Festival taking place 11th to the 15th of November, continues to impress with its film lineup. The festival revealed the lineup for Tastes – a new section in the film program focusing on culinary themed films, B-Side program – focusing on music themed films, and American Specials, which presents the Mexican premieres of US films.
Tastes program includes outstanding films from the international circuit of culinary cinema, including Cooking Up a Tribute by Luis González and Andrea Gómez (Mexican Premiere), about El Celler de Can Roca, the world’s best restaurant, which decided to shut down temporarily to go on the road and tour America; Sergio Herman: F***ing Perfect by Willemiek Kluijfhout (Latin American Premiere), which portrays one of the 50 best chefs in the world, who is a perfectionist obsessed with culinary excellence; and Baja Tastes by Roberto Najera (World Premiere), a first work made in Tijuana that introduces us to the culinary delights, variety and fusion of the Baja California peninsula.
The B-Side program will have the most outstanding films in which music is a delight for both the ear and the eye. The tuneful world of Arcade Fire in Reflektor Tapes come together with the hip-hop rhythms created by Pharrell Williams for Dope, along with Office, by the Hongkongese director, Johnnie To, who breathes fresh air to this program by bringing a beautiful, nimble, musical cinema.
Dope (Mexican Premiere)
Dir. Rick Famuyiwa (The Wood, Brown Sugar, Talk to Me)
Cast: Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons
Soundtrack by Pharrell Williams
Premiered at Sundance.
Arcade Fire: The Reflektor Tapes
Dir. Hervé Martin-Delpierre (Daft Punk Unchained; Sport, mafia et corruption)
Cast: Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Arcade Fire
Office (Latin American Premiere)
Dir. Johnnie To
Cast: Chow Yun Fat, Wang Ziyi, Lang Yueting
Premiered at Sundance.
In the new Film Program section, American Specials, which presents the Mexican premieres of US films that have won critical acclaim and set box-office records, the Festival has recently confirmed the Mexican premiere for Black Mass and The Diary of a Teenage Girl. Additionally, the lineup will include the following premieres:
The Hollow Point (World Premiere)
Dir. Gonzalo López-Gallego (El Rey de la Montaña, Nómadas, Apolo 18)
Cast: Ian McShane, Lynn Collins, Patrick Wilson
Max Rose (Latin American Premiere)
Dir. Daniel Noah (Twelve)
Cast: Illeana Douglas, Kerry Bishé, Jerry Lewis.
Premiered at Festival de Cannes in 2013
El Ganzo (Latin American Premiere)
Dir. Steve Balderson (Hell Town, Occupying Ed, The Far Flung Star)
Cast: Mark Booker, Magdalena del Rio, Anslem Richardson.
The Festival also confirmed the Mexican talent that will take part in gala events and Industry activities, among them: Eugenio Derbez, José María Yazpik, Manolo Caro, Tenoch Huerta, José Carlos Ruíz, Sebastián Aguirre, Sophie Alexander-Katz, José María Torre, Sofía Espinosa, Ianis Guerrero, Rosa María Bianchi, Jaime Garza, Adriana Paz, and many others.
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“Carol” “Remember” Added to Gala Program of 2015 Los Cabos International Film Festival
Carol directed by Todd Haynes, and Remember by the Canadian director, Atom Egoyan, (pictured above) have been added to the Galas Program of the upcoming 2015 Los Cabos International Film Festival; in addition 3 films have been confirmed to the World Highlights program.
The Festival will hold the Gala Screening of Carol as a Latin American Premiere. This film had its world premiere at Cannes Film Festival where Rooney Mara won the award for Best Actress. Atom Egoyan’s Remember will have its Mexican premiere at Los Cabos Film Festival. This film was part of Venice Film Festival’s competition, and won the Vittorio Veneto Award. Featuring an extraordinary performance by Christopher Plummer, who plays a sick widower who leaves his nursing home to take vengeance on the Nazi commander who killed his family 70 years earlier, Remember shines a spotlight on Canadian talent celebrated in the Festival.
The Festival presents its World Highlights program, a carefully chosen selection of films from different parts of the world, with a curatorship focused on the works that have been acclaimed at the world’s most important film festivals:
The films in this program are:
45 YEARS
Director: Andrew Haigh (Gladiator, Weekend)
Starring: Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling
Premiered and won the Silver Bear at Berlinale.
UK
THE CLAN (Premiere in Mexico)
Director: Pablo Trapero (Carancho, Elefante Blanco, Leonera)
Cast: Antonia Bengoechea, Gastón Cocchiarale and Guillermo Francella
Premiered and won the Silver Lion at Venice Film Festival.
Argentina
THE CLUB (Premiere in Mexico)
Director: Pablo Larraín (No, Tony Manero, Post Mortem)
Cast: Roberto Farías, Antonia Zegers and Alfredo Castro
Premiered and won the Jury Prize at Berlinale.
Chile
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2015 Los Cabos Film Festival Announces Films in the Horror, Environmental and American Specials Programs
2015 Los Cabos International Film Festival revealed the films selected to screen in the After DARK, American Specials and Green programs.
For the second year running, the Festival presents its After Dark program, with three films from prestigious festivals such as Sundance, Cannes and Fantastic Fest, that are on the borderlines between horror, science fiction and black comedy.
TALE OF TALES (pictured above)
Dir. Matteo Garrone (Gomorra, Reality)
Cast: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel and Toby Jones
Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival.
THE WITCH (Latin American Premiere)
Dir. Robert Eggers (The Tell-Tale Heart, Hansel and Gretel)
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson and Kate Dickie
Premiered at Sundance Film Festival.
WHAT WE BECOME (Latin American Premiere)
Dir. Bo Mikkelsen (First Feature)
Cast: Mille Dinesen, Toels Lyby and Ole Dupont
Premiered at Fantastic Fest
The new American Specials program will feature the following American films that have won critical acclaim and set box-office records, among them the Mexican Premieres of:
BLACK MASS (Mexican Premiere)
Dir. Scott Cooper (Out of the Furnace, Crazy Heart)
Cast: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch and Dakota Johnson
Premiered at Venice International Film Festival.
THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL (Mexican Premiere)
Dir. Marielle Heller (First Work)
Cast: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård and Kristen Wiig
Premiered at Sundance.
In this fourth edition, Green is presented by Discovery Channel. In this program awareness-raising films prompt us to ponder on our responsibilities vis-à-vis the environment, and on the urgent need to establish a balance among all the links in the chain of life on our planet.
The films in this program are:
RACING EXTINCTION (Mexican Premiere)
Dir. Louie Psihoyos (Oscar Winner for Best Documentary for The Cove, Chaising Ice, Dinosaur 13)
Premiered at Sundance.
HURRICANE 3D (Latin American Premiere)
Dir. Cyril Barbançon y Andy Byatt
LA GLACE ET LE CIEL (Mexican Premiere)
Dir. Luc Jacquet
This film was the closing gala at Cannes Film Festival.
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2015 Los Cabos International Film Festival Announces Films and Projects Selected in Cabos In Progress and Cabos Discovery
2015 Los Cabos International Film Festival announced the names of the films chosen to form part of the Cabos in Progress and Cabos Discovery platforms. Cabos in Progress will feature films in the post-production stage, made in or coproduced with Mexico; and the Cabos Discovery platform will feature projects in the development phase, made in or coproduced by Mexico, USA or Canada.
The competing Mexican films in Cabos in Progress are:
Bellas de noche (pictured above)
Director: María José Cuevas
Producers: Christian Valdelièvre, Alberto Müffelmann, Jaime Bernardo Ramos Montoya y Gerardo Gatica.
Carroña
Director and producer: Sebastián Hiriart
El fracaso
Director: Ricardo Silva
Producer: Paulina Valencia
La habitación
Directors: Carlos Carrera, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Carlos Bolado, Ernesto Contreras, Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, Alejandro Valle, Iván Ávila Dueñas and Natalia Beristáin
Producers: Edher Campos, Luis Salinas, Marta Lewandowska and Marta Habior
Los paisajes
Director: Rodrigo Cervantes
Producer: Pauline Galtié
Somos lengua
Director: Kyzza Terrazas
Producer: Carlos Sosa and Laura Imperiale
Verónica
Directors: Carlos Algara and Alejandro Martínez
Producer: Juan Carlos Segura
The competing projects in the Cabos Discovery platform are:
Sunbathing in Hell (Canada)
Director: Sophie Deraspe
Producer: Félize Frappier
I’m not a bad person (Canada)
Director: Andrew Huculiak
Producers: Nicole I Dyck, Amy Darling, Josh Huculiak
Merciful (Canada) selected from Strategic Partners
Producer: Marc Almon
Salón de Belleza (USA/Mexico)
Director: Andrea Pallaoro
Producers: Eleonora Granata, Jonathan Venguer
Nancy (USA) – selected from IFP
Director: Christina Choe
Producers: Gerry Kim, Mayuran Tiruchelvam, Kelly Willias and Jonathan Duffy
Picking Cotton (USA) selected from Tribeca Film Institute
Director and producer: Jessica Sanders
The Taste of the Apple is Red (SYRIA, QATAR and USA) selected from Cine-Link Sarajevo Film Festival
Director: Ehab Tarabieh
Producer: Solomon Goodman
Calla (Mexico)
Director: Jorge Michel Grau
Producer: Mayra Espinosa Castro
Gunpowder seeds (Mexico)
Director: Arturo González Villaseñor
Producers: Sebastián Celis and Nicolás Celis
Memoria de los días rojos (Mexico)
Director and producer: Rafa Lara
Skin Deep (Mexico)
Director: Paulina del Paso
Producers: Elisa Miller
Casi el paraíso (Mexico)
Director: Gaz Alazraki
Producers: Edgar San Juan and Leonardo Zimbrón
Opus Zero (Mexico)
Director: Daniel Graham
Producer: Julio Chavezmontes
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TANGERINE, JAMES WHITE, ROOM, NASTY BABY Among 2015 Los Cabos International Film Festival Official Selections
The 2015 Los Cabos International Film Festival announced the films chosen for its fourth edition’s Official Selection, which is composed of Competencia Los Cabos (Mexico, USA and Canada) and México Primero sections. Nine films are in competition for Competencia Los Cabos, where North American films appear side-by-side, films that are from or co-produced with Mexico, USA and/or Canada can participate; and six films are in competition for México Primero, focusing on Mexican films.
The nine films in competition for Competencia Los Cabos:
From Afar “Desde allá” by Lorenzo Vigas (Mexico/Venezuela).
Tangerine by Sean Baker (USA) – Premiere in Mexico. (pictured above)
Room by Lenny Abrahamson (Canada/Ireland)
Chronic by Michel Franco (Mexico).
James White by Josh Mond (USA) – Premiere in Latin America
The Loved Ones “Les Êtres Chers” by Anne Émond (Canada) – Premiere in Mexico
A Monster with a Thousand Heads “Un monstruo de mil cabezas” by Rodrigo Plá (Mexico/France).
Nasty Baby by Sebastián Silva (USA/Chile) – Premiere in Mexico.
Sleeping Giant by Andrew Cividino (Canada).
The six competing films for México Primero are:
Semana Santa by Alejandra Márquez.
Sabrás qué hacer conmigo by Katina Medina Mora.
Charity “La caridad” by Marcelino Islas.
The Chosen Ones “Las elegidas” by David Pablos.
I Promise You Anarchy “Te prometo anarquía” by Julio Hernández Cordón.
Almacenados by Jack Zagha.
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Los Cabos International Film Festival Confirms 2015 Dates
Los Cabos International Film Festival confirmed at Sundance Film Festival dates for its 4th Edition, to be held from November 11-15, 2015.
“As every year, next November you will be welcomed at Los Cabos to exchange ideas and new projects, enjoy national and world premiers, and also our great location. We are proud to confirm dates on the occasion of Sundance, where we can find a project which resulted from one of the alliances generated in our Second Edition, between Mexican director José Manuel Cravioto and Paradigm”, commented Festival Director, Alonso Aguilar.
Director José Manuel Cravioto is participating in the 2015 Sundance Film Festival out-of-competition section Park City at Midnight with the film Reversal which World Premiere on Friday, January 23 at the Egyptian Theater.
Reversal is described as a gritty psychological thriller about a young woman chained in a basement of a sexual predator and manages to escape. However, right when she has a chance for freedom, she unravels a hard truth and decides to turn the tables on her captor. Cast: Tina Ivlev, Richard Tyson, Bianca Malinowski.
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