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The documentary 'Los que se quedan (Those Who Remain)' continues to win international awards
6 November 2009
The documentary 'Los que quedan (Those Who Remain)' continues to win awards at international festivals. The film has won the Best Ibero-American Documentary prize at the International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City. This is the latest of its awards, following impressive international recognition that has earned it prizes in festivals such as the Guadalajara Festival (Mexico), the Documenta Madrid 09 Festival and the Los Angeles Independent Cinema Festival. It has included the Humanitas Prize, a recognition for Los que se quedan that over and above documentary's cinematographic value highlights its defense of human rights.
The fourth International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City has just closed, with the prize for the Best Ibero-American Documentary going to Los que se quedan. Produced by the BBVA Bancomer Foundation and the Sombra del Guayabo, the film has also obtained the Best Latin-American Documentary Prize at the International Documentary Festival of Barcelona, Docúpolis.
The jury of the Documentary Section of the Biarritz Festival of Cinema and Cultures of Latin America awarded it a Special Mention. Finally, and also in this brief period, the prestigious Oscar-winning director of photography, Haskell Wexler has granted the film the Best Photography Prize that bears his name in the X Woodstock Film Festival (N.Y.)
Haskell Wexler is one of the most respected directors of photography in the international film industry. Winner of two Oscars in this category for 'Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?' and 'Bound for Glory', he has also been nominated for an Academy Award on three occasions for films as famous as 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'. For this reason, the Woodstock Film Festival has chosen him to make the yearly choice of winning film in this category by granting it the prize bearing his name.
Los que se quedan is a tale of nostalgia, identity and memory, which follows in the steps of earlier movies by Juan Carlos Rulfo, including the winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, 'En el Hoyo (In the Pit)' (2006). The film’s two directors show us a close-up of the intimate life of families who have emigrated to the U.S. in search of opportunity.
