Winners of the 24th Havana NY Film Festival Unveiled: Celebrating Hispanic Cinema

The 24th edition of Havana NY Film Festival It is an opportunity to celebrate Hispanic cinema, with its different stories and in El Diario de NY we show you which productions were successful at the gala.

At the ceremony held at the Quad Cinema in Manhattan, awards were given to the most outstanding actors and actresses, as well as the screenwriters in charge of creating the various films.

The list of winners of the Havana Film Festival was distributed as follows:

Havana Star Award for Best Film goes to Heroico by David Zonana (Mexico)

Best Director: Carolina Markowicz for Hole (Brazil)

Best Actor for Jhon Narváez for his role as Joe Arrollo in Rebelión (Colombia)

Best Actress for Lola Amores from Una Noche con los Rolling Stones (Cuba)

Best play for Josué Méndez from El Caso Monroy (Peru).

Special Jury Mention to Memento Mori by Fernando López (Colombia).

Who was the jury in charge of the election?

In a press release from the event group they indicated that it consisted of Maria Linares, a film music composer from Colombia, in the Fiction category; John David West, American actor and Breixo Viejo, professor at the Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University, specialist in film history.

The moderators of the documentaries were: Ana María Hernández, professor of Latin American Studies at LaGuardia Community College; Argentine filmmaker Juan Pablo Cadaveira; and actor and editor Christian López-Lámelas.

Diana Vargas, artistic director of HFFNY, spoke about the importance of this festival: In addition, these fictional films and documentaries took viewers into new worlds, exploring musical, artistic, social and political themes in innovative and challenging ways..

Films from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Panama and Uruguay took part in the production.