10 · 08 · 08

Eimbcke receives “Tradicional” Prize

Doris Morales/Translated by Caroline MacKinnon

[imagen]Director Fernando Eimbcke, who received the Tequila Tradicional Prize given by Casa Cuervo today, presented his film Lake Tahoe yesterday with Christian Valdeliévre. Alejandro Ramírez, president of the Morelia International Film Festival, welcomed them.

The film is about a day in the life of a 16-year-old boy who escapes the sadness in his house after the death of his father. He crashes the family car, and runs into different people: an old mechanic and his dog, a young single mother and a young mechanic obsessed with martial arts; with whom he shares situations as absurd as they are funny.

At the end of the screening in front of a full house, the audience applauded the work Eimbcke and his crew. The audience then asked them questions about the relative absence of camera movement, the location for such a desolate and sad setting (Progreso, Yucatán), to which the director responded, “these details helped me a lot in telling the story.”

At the end of the talk, Eimbcke commented on the work of Lake Tahoe’s leading actor, Diego Cataño, whom he described as generous and very professional, “He put together a lot of the story and helped the other characters come to life.”