Three Films by Women Win Top Plaudits at Mexico's Los Cabos Festival John Hopewell and Anna Marie de la Fuente - Variety
go to original November 14, 2016

From writer/director Andrea Arnold and starring Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf and Riley Keough: American Honey (A24)

Three films by women – Andrea Arnold’s “American Honey,” Mexican Lucia Carreras’ “Tamara & The Ladybug” and Sophie Barthes’ “The Rosenbergs” won the top plaudits at Mexico’s 5th Los Cabos Festival this weekend.

Running Nov. 9-13, the festival-market will go down in history not only for the prominence of women among its award recipients but also for its launch of its first Film Investor Summit, attended by an industry elite, and the multiple signs of vitality of the Mexican production sector.

Latin American industry is sometimes described as world cinema. Just how exotic it is these days is another question. The roll-call of the international industry’s good and great at Los Cabos from all the Hollywood talent agencies to Stuart Ford, Alex Walton, Vincent Maraval and Gaston Pavlovich underscores not only the delights of Los Cabos as a resort but also lure of some of its greatest young directors, such as Colombia’s Ciro Guerra who presented a project at its inaugural Film Investors Summit.

Arnold’s Cannes Jury Prize-winning ode to Americana, “America Honey” was always a front runner in a just eight-title competition of often exquisitely selected titles, taking in “Christine,” with Rebecca Hall as Christine Chubbuck, Amat Escalante’s “The Untamed,” a sci-fi metaphor for his country’s violence,misogyny and homophobia; Joey Klein’s tortured young love story,” The Other Half” and Kris Avedisian’s cring-fest indie comedy “Donald Cried,” which walked off with the Labodigital Award, given by the Festival’s main prize sponsor.

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LOS CABOS COMPETITION

PREMIO CINEMEX

“American Honey” (Andrea Arnold, U.S.)

LABODIGITAL AWARD

“Donald Cried” (Kris Avedisian, U.S.)

MEXICO PRIMERO

ART KINGDOM AWARD

“Tamara and the Ladybug” (Lucia Carreras, Mexico, Spain)

PREMIO FIPRESCI

“Tamara & the Ladybug”

PREMIO CINEMEX

“X500” (Juan Andres Arango, Mexico, Colombia, Canada)

AUDIENCE AWARD

“Bellas de Noche” (Maria Jose Cuevas, Mexico)

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