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The Miami Film Festival has announced its prize winners after wrapping the 43rd edition of the cinematic event in South Florida.
On the Road (En El Camino), directed by David Pablos, won the festival’s top juried prize, the $10,000 Marimbas Award. The drama-thriller centers on Veneno, a young man “surviving on charm, instinct, and fleeting sexual encounters,” who seeks a way out of the life he’s living. “He finds it in Muñeco when he persuades the trucker to take him north. Together, they enter the insular world of long-haul trucking, where men are expected to be silent and vulnerability is forbidden.”
Osvaldo Sanchez and Victor Prieto Simental star in the film, which won the Queer Lion at the Venice Film Festival. It also won Best Film in the Venice Horizons section and two awards at the Morelia International Film Festival in Mexico. The Marimbas Award at MFF recognizes a film in international competition that “best exemplifies richness and resonance for cinema’s future.”
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The Made in MIA Feature Film Award went to The Old Man and the Parrot, directed by Gabriel de Varona. It was selected by a jury from among films in competition with “a substantial portion of its content (story, setting, and actual filming location) in South Florida (Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and/or Monroe counties) and that best utilizes their stories and themes for universal resonance.” The award comes with a cash prize of $15,000.
Source: deadline.com