“State of Silence,” (“Estado de Silencio”), the fourth documentary from Mexico’s Santiago Maza (“The Thunder Feast”), a passion project of producer Diego Luna at Mexican label La Corriente del Golfo where he collaborates with Gael García Bernal, has won a coveted Best Feature Film award at this year’s Sanfic Festival in Santiago de Chile.
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Other big winners included Agustín Toscano's "I Trust You," which won Best Director at the Sanfic International Competition, and Matías Rojas Valencia's "Our Memory" and Alfredo Pourally's "The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine," which shared the Best Feature Film award at Sanfic's Chilean Film Competition.
The big winners at Sanfic Industria, Sanfic's lively industry forum, were led by Caye Casas' “El Show del Gran Luciferio,” his follow-up to “The Coffee Table,” which Stephen King inaugurated by praising as “terrible and also terribly funny. Think of the Coen Brothers' darkest dream.”
“Water Never Hurt,” by Argentina's Ana Clara Bustelo, and “Concert for a Single Voice,” directed by Peruvian Alejandra Carpio, won double awards at Sanfic Industria's Ibero-American Work in Progress, the film industry's showpiece.
