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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Double award winner Ana Guevara (holding MIFF 2013 Knight Ibero-American Competition Grand Jury Award + Jordan Alexander Ressler Screenwriting Award) and entourage Day 9 wrap:  Awards night at Olympia Theater!!!  Last-minute deliberations and rumored deadlocks among the jurors of the Ibero-American, Documentary, Opera Prima and Shorts competitions result in ties and special recognition in multiple categories, followed by an engaging portrait of pro-tennis sibling dynamos during the most challenging year of their career; Venus and Serena, by director-producers Michelle Major and Maiken Baird.  The film will be available on VOD on April 4th and released nationwide on May 10th. Jaie Laplante (MIFF executive director) | Lexus Ibero-American Opera Prima Award winners: Carlos Machado Quintela (director, The Swimming Pool), Guillermo Rocamora (director, Solo) | Carmen Argamasilla (publicist, HBO) accepting award for Knight Documentary Documentary Grand Jury Prize for Gideon's Army AND THE ENVELOPE please… Winners of the 2013 Miami International Film Festival from Award’s Night Ceremony were announced last night at Olympia Theater’s Gusman Center for the Performing Arts: KNIGHT IBERO-AMERICAN COMPETITION AWARDS Knight Grand Jury Prize: So Much Water (Tanta agua), produced by CTRL Z FILMS, Uruguay, by Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge (Uruguay/Mexico/Netherlands), will receive $15,000 awarded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation  If the film's sales agent, Alpha Violet of France sells the film to a US distributor within 30 days, that US distributor will also receive $15,000.   If not, the additional $15,000 will be added to CTRL Z FILMS' prize. Grand Jury Best Performance: The cast of A Gun in Each Hand (Una pistola en cada mano), by Cèsc Gay (Spain) $5,000 awarded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Grand Jury Best Director: Ana Piterbarg of Everybody Has a Plan (Todos tenemos un plan)(Spain/Argentina /Germany) $5,000 awarded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation JORDAN ALEXANDER RESSLER SCREENWRITING AWARD Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge for So Much Water (Tanta agua) by Ana Guevara andLeticia Jorge (Uruguay/Mexico/Netherlands) $5,000 USD cash prize awarded by the Jordan Alexander Ressler Charitable Fund KNIGHT DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION Knight Grand Jury Prize: Gideon’s Army, by Dawn Porter (USA) $10,000 awarded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation LEXUS IBERO-AMERICAN OPERA PRIMA COMPETITION (tie): Solo, by Guillermo Rocamora (Uruguay/Argentina/Netherlands/France) $2,500 USD cash prize sponsored by Lexus, official automotive sponsor of MIFF The Swimming Pool (La piscina), by Carlos Machado Quintela (Cuba/Venezuela) A $2,500 USD cash prize sponsored by Lexus, official automotive sponsor of MIFF Special recognition by the jury goes to Villegas, by Gonzalo Tobal (Argentina/Netherlands/France) UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SHORTS COMPETITION: Best Short Film: “Anna and Jerome”, by Mélanie Delloye (France) $2,500 USD cash prize awarded by the University of Miami MIAMI FUTURE CINEMA CRITICS AWARD: Beijing Flickers (You-Zhong), by Zhang Yuan (China) LEXUS AUDIENCE AWARD There were two grand winners of this year’s Lexus Audience Award voted on by festivalgoers throughout the Festival: 7 Boxes (7 cajas) by Juan Carlos Maneglia and Tana Schémbori (Paraguay) Gideon’s Army, by Dawn Porter (USA) Michelle Major, Maiken Baird (co-directors, Venus and Serena) | Pyrat Awards Night Party table decor | Miami Film Society visionary member Everett “Rett” Sheslow                  Gonzalo Tobal (director, Villegas), DJ Danny Stern | Elvira Pupo, Dr. Eduardo J. Padrón (President, Miami Dade College), Alina Interian (Alina Interian (MDC Executive Director, Cultural Affairs) | MIami Future Cinema Critics Juan Barquin, guest, Justin James MIFF executive director Jaie Laplante announcing two 2013 Lexus Audience Awards: 7 Boxes & Gideon's Army | Juan Gordon (Knight Ibero-American Competition juror), Beto Giraldo (MIFF vibe manager), Cristián Jiménez (Knight Ibero-American Competition juror and director of Bonsai winner of last year's Grand Jury Prize)  | glimpse of Pyrat Awards party at Freedom Tower at MDC