'Echo,' 'Sciences' Top Guadalajara Film Fest John Hopewell - Variety
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GUADALAJARA – Mexican Nicolas Echeverria’s “Echo of the Mountain” and Argentine Matias Lucchesi’s “Natural Sciences” topped the 29th Guadalajara Festival on Saturday scooping respectively its Mezcal Prize and best picture, screenplay and actress in fest’s Ibero-American Competition.

The Mezcal Prize is awarded to best Mexican movie at Guadalajara.

Brazil also had a strong run with Fernando Coimbra’s “A Wolf at the Door” taking director in the Ibero-American section, Marcelo Gomes and Cao Guimaraes “Man of the Crowd” its special jury prize and cinematography (for Ivo Lopes Araujo), and Daniel Ribeiro’s “The Way He Looks” its audience award. Actor went to Gustavo Sanchez Parra for “Perpetual Sadness.”

In all, five of Guadalajara’s eight top prizes went to feature debuts, a sign of just how much a new generation of filmmakers is emerging with force in Latin America.

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