Santiago International Film Festival 2006 Winners
by Andre Soares
En el hoyo, Juan Carlos Rulfo’s documentary about construction workers building the second deck of Mexico City’s Periferico freeway, won the Grand Prize at the second Santiago International Film Festival. En el hoyo also took home the Premio Sin Fronteras (Without Borders Award), which guarantees commercial distribution in Chile.
French filmmaker Pascale Breton won the Best Director Award for Illumination, which revolves around the troubled emotional life of a young man (Clet Beyer) living on the coast of Britanny.
Peruvian director Claudia Llosa received an Honorable Mention for her film Madeinusa, the tale of an adolescent from rural Peru who falls in love with a visitor from Lima, while Rodrigo Moreno’s Argentinian political drama El Custodio received a Special Mention.
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