05 · 24 · 13 La jaula de oro receives the Gillo Pontecorvo Award Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard The coproduction between Spain and Mexico La jaula de oro by Diego Quemada-Diez, which is part of the Un Certain regard section at the Cannes Film Festival 2013, was granted the Gillo Pontecorvo award by the the International Institute for Movies and Media in Latin American Countries, together with the Gillo Pontercovo association. Congratulations to the director for this exceptional achievement! The award is named after Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo, best known for his political struggle and for being part of the Third Cinema movement, committed to the development of a cinema of liberation in the third world. After receiving the award, Quemada-Diez declared himself an admirer of Pontecorvo and assured that La battaglia di Algeri (1966), directed by the Italian, is one of his favorite films. The Italian institution which grants this award praised La jaula de oro for it’s “social labor, narrative strength and cinematographic freshness”. Adding: “Gillo said that ‘cinema should be written close to man, inside man and should speak about man, or it speaks about nothing.’ The necessary story told by La jaula de oro and the irresistible candor of the four non professional actors that interpret it, respond to this calling.” This is the first award for Mexican cinema at the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Congratulation! The winners of Un Certain Regard will be announced on Saturday May 25. During the closing ceremony, on Sunday May 26, the winner of the Camera d’Or will be announced, an award to the best opera pima which could also go to La jaula de oro.
