2006 Santiago Film Festival Awards2006 Santiago Film Festival Awards: August 14, 2006
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.
Best Film: En el hoyo (Mexico) by Juan Carlos
Rulfo
Best Director: Pascale Breton for Illumination (France)
Honorable Mention: Claudia Llosa for Madeinusa (Peru)
Special Mention: El Custodio (Argentina) by
Rodrigo Moreno
Premio Sin Fronteras / Without Borders Award: En
el hoyo (Mexico) by Juan Carlos Rulfo
Jury Members: Alicia Scherson, Phillipe Jalladeau, Peter Scarlet, Klaus Eder
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Locarno Film Festival Awards 2006
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.Rulfo
Rodrigo Moreno
el hoyo (Mexico) by Juan Carlos Rulfo