2005 Los Angeles Latino Film Festival Awards
FEATURES
The Rita Award for Best Picture: Las Mantenidas sin sueños directed by Vera Fogwill and Martín De Salvo (Argentina)
Best Director: Miguel Littin for La Última luna / The Last Moon (Chile)
Best Screenplay (tie): Habana Blues, written by Benito Zambrano and Ernesto Chao (Spain / Cuba / France) and Cidade Baixa / Low Town, written by Sergio Machado and Karim Ainouz (Brazil)
Opera Prima / First Film: Las Mantenidas sin sueños by Vera Fogwill and Martín De Salvo (Argentina)
Audience Award (tie): Habana Blues by Benito Zambrano (Spain / Cuba / France) and O Casamento de Romeo e Julieta / The Marriage of Romeo and Julieta by Bruno Barreto (Brazil)
Choices for consideration by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for a Best Foreign Language Film nomination:
Las Mantenidas sin sueños by Vera Fogwill and Martín De Salvo (Argentina)
La Ultima Luna by Miguel Littin (Chile)
Habana Blues by Benito Zambrano (Spain / Cuba / France)
DOCUMENTARIES
Best Documentary: Invierno en Bagdad / Winter in Baghdad directed by Javier Corcuera (Spain)
Honorable Mentions
El Cielo gira / The Sky Turns by Mercedes Rodriguez (Peru)
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Relatos desde el encierro by Guadalupe Miranda (Mexico)
SHORTS
Best Short: La Canada by Carlo Corea (Mexico)
Honorable Mentions
The Treasure of the Snails by Cristian Jimenez (Chile)
Cuco Gomez-Gomez Is Dead by Francisco Lorite (USA)
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