05 · 25 · 13 The cast of La jaula de oro winners of Un Certain Talent Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard The Un Certain Regard competition of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival included 17 films from 15 different countries. Today the jury, presided by Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg, revealed the winning titles. We are very pleased to announce that La jaula de oro, Diego Quemada-Diez’ opera prima, received the Un Certain Talent award in recognition of the cast’s exceptional work. Congratulations on this extraordinary triumph! The cast of La jaula de oro, Rodolfo Domínguez, Karen Martínez and Brandon López, are non professional actors who collaborated with Quemada-Diez to tell the story of three young people from Central America who travel through Mexico with hopes of crossing the US border and finding a better life. In an interview with the Cannes Film Festival, the director said that “in a way, the guys played the story without realizing it”; the award granted to the actors acknowledges the freshness and honesty of their interpretations. It's also a recognition of the work of Natalia Beristain, casting director of La jaula de oro, whose opera prima No quiero dormir sola won Best Feature Film at the 2012 FICM. This is the second award received by La jaula de oro at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Yesterday, the International Institute for Movies and Media in Latin American Countries, together with the Gillo Pontercovo association, granted La jaula de oro the Gillo Pontecorvo award. We extend our congratulations to the director and his entire team, well done! The winning titles of Un Certain Regard 2013 are: Prix Un Certain Regard: L’image manquante / The Missing Picture by Rithy Panh (Cambodia and France) Jury Award: Omar by Hany Abu-Assad (Palestine) Directing Award: L’inconnu du lac / Stranger by the Lake by Alain Guiraudie (France) Un Certain Talent Award: La jaula de oro by Diego Quemada-Diez (Spain and Mexico) Avenir Award: Fruitvale Station by Ryan Coogler (United States) After announcing the results of their deliberation, Vinterberg declared: “This selection was insistingly unsentimental, and still poetic. It was political, highly original, sometimes disturbing, diverse and first of all, very often - unforgettable. I once again thank you Thierry [Frémaux], for sharing such a fine extract of the best movies around, with all of us.”
