10 · 05 · 09

Fernando Eimbcke and Everardo González are the winners of the Tribeca Visual Arts Fund for Latin America

Lorena Villa

Daniela Michel, director of FICM, Oscar Uriel Caro, from the TV program 24xSegundo, Gustavo Lara, director of BBVA Bancomer Foundation, Lucila Moctezuma, coordinator for the Tribeca Visual Arts Fund for Latin America, Georgine Jesús, PR for LAPTV and the two winners were present at the ceremony.

“We are aware that this type of scholarship is a great help to these young filmmakers who are starting their careers or who have already made some movies,” said Gustavo Lara, in relation to the two works selected out of a group of 13.

Eimbcke won a scholarship for 10, 000 dollars to finance his new movie, El diario de un elefante, whose script is still a work in progress. “I don´t want to talk too much about the project. I feel my energy gets drained when I talk about it,” he said after being asked about the topic of his movie. “I can say however that it is about a man who after being abandoned as a child by his father now has to take care of him while he’s old…or not.  I don’t know, this could change.”

Gonzalez said his film, entitled Los cuates de Australia, tells the story of a group of people who flee from the drought in Australia, Coahuila. “It´s about an exodus of those who wait for the rain´s return”, he said. “Without this [economic] stimulus we would hardly be able to produce anything, so I want to thank the Tribeca Fund for not letting this scholarship die.”

There was a Q & A session following the conference and then the Tribeca Film Institute, Movie City and BBVA Bancomer invited the attendees to a party at Balcones del Angel. Eimbcke and Gonzalez were there along with hundreds of other people, including the special guests of the seventh Edition of FICM, like the committee of Romanian filmmakers as well as the national directors in competition.