Phoenix Awards Nominees Announced – The Universal

The movie “The embrace of the snake”, “Cavalo dinheiro,” “Club”, “The minimum island”, “Ixcanul” and “As mil e uma noites (Vol. 1, 2 and 3)” compete American Award by the Phoenix Film in the category of feature film.

The announcement of the nominations, including a dozen other categories, was held on Monday under the Film Festival San Sebastian . The award ceremony will be held on November 25 in Mexico City.

The Phoenix Awards are organized by the Cinema 23 association, which includes directors, actors, producers, critics, academics and programmers of America America, Spain and Portugal and aims to promote and disseminate the cinematography of these countries around the world.

Director of Cinema 23, Ricardo Giraldo, was accompanied at the presentation of the nominations by the Spanish actor . Luis Tosar, the Spanish actress Elena Anaya, the actress Dolores Fonzi Argentina and Chilean director Marcia Tambutti

Of the six films competing to be recognized as the best feature film, three are co-productions: “The embrace of the snake “Ciro Guerra, is funded from Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela, while” Ixcanul “Jayro Bustamante, has means of Guatemala and France” As mil e uma noites (Vol. 1, 2 and 3) “directed by Miguel Gomes, is co-produced by Portugal, Germany and France

Completing the list Chile .” The Club “by Pablo Larrain – Silver Bear Berlin_ Festival, the Portuguese film “Cavalo Dinheiro” by Pedro Costa, and Spanish “The Low Island” by Alberto Rodriguez.

In the category of best director nominations went Portuguese Pedro Costa (“Cavalo dinheiro”), Miguel Gomes (“mil e uma As Noites”), the Colombian Ciro Guerra (“The embrace of the snake”), the Chilean Pablo Larrain (“The club”) and the Spanish Alberto Rodriguez (“minimum Island”).

Meanwhile, Chilean actors Alfredo Castro, Roberto Farías of “The Club”, the Spanish Javier Gutiérrez (“The minimum Island”) and Jose Sacristan (“Magical Girl “) and the Portuguese Ventura” Cavalo dinheiro “will compete for the award for best male performer.

In the women, the Brazilian Regina Case (” That ela volta hours? “), Geraldine Chaplin British (“Sand dollars”), the Dolores Fonzi Argentina (“The gang”), the Spanish Barbara Lennie (“Magical Girl”) and the Chilean Antonia Zegers (“the Club”) are the candidates for best actress.

The documentary films “Allende, my grandfather Allende” Marcia Tambutti, “pearl button” Patricio Guzman, “Jia Zhangke, um homem Fenyang” Walter Salles, “Not everything is waking” Hermes Paralluelo and “Last converse” by Eduardo Coutinho, were nominated.

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