by the El Reportero’s news services
The Colombian film El abrazo de la serpiente (‘’The embrace of the snake’’) won seven Platinum Awards on Monday, including for the best Ibero-American fiction film, at the gala held at the Convention Center in this city.
The Argentinian-Venezuelan co-production, directed by Colombian Ciro Guerra, received awards in the categories of Director, Original Music, Film Editing, Photography, Sound and Art Direction.
In addition to this film, Ixcanul, from Guatemala; the Argentinian-Spanish co-production El clan, the Chilean The Club, and Truman, from Spain, were competing for the title of best film production during the third edition of the Platinum Awards.
The Argentinian Guillermo Francella was awarded for the best male performance for his role in El clan, while Argentinian actress Dolores Fonzi was selected as the best female performer for her performance in Argentinian-Brazilian co-production ‘Paulina’.
In the category of best screenplay the winners were Pablo Larrain, Guillermo Calderon and Daniel Villalobos, for the screenplay of El Club, directed by Larrain.
The Platinum Award for best animation production went to the Spanish film Atrapa la bandera (‘Capture the Flag’), by Enrique Gato; while the Chilean El botón de nácar (‘The Nacre Button’), directed by Patricio Guzman, was named best documentary.
Ixcanul, by Jayro Bustamante, received the best Opera Prima Award, and the Brazilian film ¿Que horas ela volta? (‘At What time Does She Come Back?), by Anna Muylaert, won the Platinum Award for Film and Education in Values.
The Platinum Award of Honor of the Latin American Film Industry went to the Argentinian actor Ricardo Darin.
The Audience Awards were obtained by the film Ixcanul, Darin for his performance in Truman, and Penelope Cruz for her role in Ma Ma.
Eight hundred eighty-six audiovisual productions, premiered in 2015, competed in the third edition of the Platinum Awards, representing 23 countries. Twenty-six of the premiered films reached the finals.
The Fourth Edition of the Platinum Awards will take place next year in Madrid, Spain, announced Luis Cueto, coordinator of the Madrid Town Hall, during the awards gala.
Gente de Zona wants another summer with La Macarena and Los del Río
Cuban duo ‘’Gente de Zona’’ are filling social networks and specialized media websites with a new version of the song La Macarena together with the artists who made the song popular, Los del Rio.
Six days after the new version – called Mas Macarena – was premiered at the 13rd edition of the Premios Juventud Awards in the US city of Miami, Florida, the new single CD and video with the sounds of the song has been viewed 500,000 times on YouTube.
The new version, with much more electronic sounds, still preserves a great deal of the original sound and allows members of Los del Rio, Antonio Romero and Rafael Perdigones (Seville, Spain), who are celebrating 50 years together, to incorporate some lines in Flamenco, while Alexander Delgado and Randy Malcolm give the song elements of urban rap.
After the premiere, the artists went to Cuba, to film the video on the island, under the guidance of Venezuelan, Daniel Duran, who has worked with Gilberto Santa Rosa and Wisin.
The original version of La Macarena was recorded, published and broadcast in 1993 and included in a CD called A Mi Me Gusta.
It has been sung and danced to all over the world, becoming a world musical hit and reaching the top of the list of musical hits in the US specialized music magazine, Billboard. It is one of the most important single hits in the history of Hispanic music.
