Mexico City of International Festival Contemporary Film

Mexico City D.F., Mexico February 17 - March 01, 2009
Call for Entry Deadline: November 15, 2008
Festival Data:
- Established: 2004
- Genre: General
- Attendance: 65000
- Media Attendance: 100
- Total Number of Films Screened: 130
- Total Screenings: 200
- # of Features Screened: 130
- Competitive
Festival Website:
http:/ / www.ficco.com.mx
Festival Description:

This festival screens Features and Documentaries that represent the ideas and technology of "contemporary cinema."

Awards are given out in th Following categories:

CINEMEX AUDIENCE AWARD (NARRATIVE FEATURE AND DOCUMENTARY)- Cinemex offers LA PIEZA and a $5,000 USD award to the best feature according to the Cinemex audience choice.

PREMIO FICCO- An international Jury for each competitive section (narrative and documentary feature) will reward with El Premio FICCO the following categories:

NARRATIVE FEATURE: PREMIO FICCO to Best Feature; PREMIO FICCO to Best Director; PREMIO FICCO to Best First Feature; DOCUMENTARY FEATURE; PREMIO FICCO to Best Film; PREMIO FICCO to Best Director

FIPRESCI´S AWARD (NARRATIVE AND DOCUMENTARY FEATURES)

SPECIAL AWARDS: PFIZER PRIZE FOR BEST HUMANS RIGHTS FILM, KODAK PRIZE FOR BEST MEXICAN FILM (NARRATIVE AND DOCUMENTARY FEATURE) and the UAM PRIZE FOR BEST LATIN AMERICAN NARRATIVE FEATURE
Film Submissions:
- Call for Entry: http:/ / www.ficco.com.mx/ indexi.php?Sec=2
Email: info(at)ficco.com.mx

Mailing Address: Blvd. Manuel Ávila Camacho # 40-16 floor Col. Lomas de Chapultepec
Mexico City D.F. 11000
Mexico

Email:	info(at)ficco.com.mx
Mailing Address:	Blvd. Manuel Ávila Camacho # 40-16 floor Col. Lomas de Chapultepec Mexico City D.F. 11000 Mexico

APR 10, 2007 05:19PM FFW Films Editor writes:

Award Winners for the 2007 Mexico City of International Contemporary Film

FICCO Prize for Best Film: “12:08 Al Este de Bucarest”
Directed by: Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania

FICCO Prize for Best Director: “Body Rice” (El Cielo Que Nos Contiene)
Directed by: Hugo Vieira da Silva (Portugal, 2006)

FICCO Prize for Best Director: “Taxidermia”
Directed by: György Pálfi (Hungary/Austria/France, 2006)

Best ‘Opera Prima:’ “Familia Tortuga”
Directed by: Rubén Imaz Castro (Mexico, 2006)

Special of the International Jury: “Avida”
Directed by: Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern (France/Belgium, 2006)

Audence Choice Prize CINEMEX for Best Fiction Film: “Familia Tortuga”
Directed by: Rubén Imaz Castro (Mexico, 2006)
Prize: $5,000

FICCO Prize for the Best International Documentary: “Born Without” (Nacido Sin)
Directed by: Eva Norvind (Mexico, 2007)

FICCO Prize for the Best Documentary: “Our Daily Bread” SELECCIÓN Directed by: Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Austria, 2006)

Special of the International Documentary Jury: “El Tiempo Que Se Queda”
Directed By: José Luis Torres Leiva (Chile, 2007)

Audence Choice Prize CINEMEX for Best Documentary Film: “Yo Presidente”
Directed By: Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn (Argentina, 2006)
Prize: $5,000

FIPRESCI Prize for the Best International: “Copacabana”
Directed By: Martín Rejtman (Argentina, 2007)

FIPRESCI Prize for the Best Mexican Feature Length: “Ser Isla”
Directed By: Eun-Hee Ihm (México, 2007)

UAM Prize (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana) for the Beaat latin American Feature Length Film: “Hamaca Paraguaya”
Directed By: Paz Encina
(Paraguay/Argentina/Holland/France/Austria/Germany, 2006)
Prize: $3000

KODAK Prize for the Best Mexican Feature Length Documentary: “Bardo”
Directed By: Gabriel Mariño (México, 2007)

PFIZER Prize for the Best film on Human Rights Documentary: “La Balada De Esequiel Hernández”
Directed By: Kieran Fitzgerald (USA, 2006)
Prize: $3000

Special Mential of the PFIZER Jury for Feature Length Mexican Documentary: “Our Daily Bread”
Directed by: Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Austria, 2006)
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