Bruno Santamaría Razo wins Morelia’s jury and audience awards
Bruno Santamaría Razo’s first fiction feature, Six Months in the Pink and Blue Building, won Morelia’s top Ojo and national audience award. The film draws on the director’s childhood and his father’s HIV diagnosis. The 24th festival also honoured Nicolás Pereda’s direction, Teresa Sánchez’s acting and Gökhan Tiryaki’s cinematography.
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Morelia’s top jury prize and audience vote converge
Bruno Santamaría Razo’s Six Months in the Pink and Blue Building won the top feature Ojo and the national audience award at Mexico’s 24th Morelia Film Festival. The film is his first fiction feature.[1], [2]
Spanish filmmaker J. A. Bayona chaired the jury. Santamaría Razo drew on his own childhood: his father’s HIV diagnosis around his eleventh birthday supplied the starting point for the story. The film’s original Spanish title is Seis meses en el edificio rosa con azul.[1]
Pereda, Sánchez and Tiryaki receive awards
Nicolás Pereda won best director for Everything Else Is Noise. Teresa Sánchez received best actress for her performance as cellist Tere in that film. Sam Louwyck won best actor for Nathalia Acevedo’s Beauty Salon. Joaquín del Paso’s The Garden We Dreamed received a special mention, and Gökhan Tiryaki won its cinematography prize. Joaquín Ruano took best screenplay for Us.[1]
Documentaries and shorts complete the competition awards
Pablo Vaca’s Forensita won the documentary competition, with a special mention for Francisco Ohem’s The Lost Mariachis. Gustavo Obregón’s Cuerda manual won fiction short, while Teresa Camou Guerrero and Arturo López Pío won documentary short with Voces en el bosque. Emilia Schettino Bustamante’s Cuna de lobos received the animated short award. The festival programme concludes on 25 October.[1]
