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Two out of three prizes at the Rotterdam Film Festival Tiger Awards were awarded to LFS graduates - Paz Fabrega for her first feature AQUA FRIA DE MAR and Pedro González-Rubio for his second feature ALAMAR.

From the Rotterdam website...

The VPRO Tiger Awards were given to Agua fría de mar by Paz Fábrega from Costa Rica, Mundane History by Anocha Suwichakornpong from Thailand and Alamar by Mexican director Pedro González-Rubio.

Concerning Agua fría de mar, the jury said that the film 'succeeded in telling the story of a mysterious relationship between a woman and a young girl in a convincing and poetic manner. The film takes the audience on an unusual journey through a nature that interacts with people in a magical way. The superb editing ensures an organic flow of images, whilst the strong directing and disturbing atmosphere create tension.'

Alamar is a film that 'touches deeply without being too sentimental'. This film, about a father and son that go on a journey to the source of the open sea to find their old way of life, is 'true and honest to its subject and shows both the good fortune and tragedy of being a child with divorced parents', according to the jury.

Full story at http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/iffr-2010/news-2010/vpro-tiger-award-winners-announced-/

Oliver Hermanus, 2009 MA Filmmaking graduate,has been nominated for the Ingmar Bergman International Debut Awards for the feature SHIRLEY ADAMS, his LFS graduation project. The film was co-written by MA Screenwriting graduate Stavros Pamballis.

TIBIDA was arranged for the first time in 2007 when Andrea Arnold, who recently made the highly praised Fish Tank, won with her debut feature film Red Road. In 2008 Spanish Jaime Rosales' Solitary Fragments and last year Enrique Rivero's Parque Via was awarded. Rivero is also part of the jury together with Bergman associate, filmmaker and author Jörn Donner and the actress Angela Kóvacs, earlier awarded with the Ingmar Bergman award.

The nominated films are:
Lucia Puenzo, Argentina, for The Fish Child
Tom Ford, USA, for A Single Man
Shahram Alidi, Iraq, for Whisper With the Wind
Martin Zandvliet, Denmark, for Applause
Esther Rots, The Netherlands, for Can Go Through Skin
Maren Ade, Germany for Everyone Else
Lee Suk-Gyung, South Korea, for The Day After
Oliver Hermanus, South Africa, for Shirley Adams

The winner will be announced on February 6.

More info at www.ingmarbergman.se

LAND GOLD WOMEN, written and directed by LFS graduate Avantika Hari, won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in the English language. The National Film Awards are the most prominent film awards in India and the oldest in the country. Due to the national scale of the awards, the National Film Awards are considered the equivalent of the American Academy Awards. The Award Ceremony will be in March at the Presidential Palace (The Rashtrapati Bhavan). The Awards are conferred by the President of India. LAND GOLD WOMEN has also won the Asian First Film Festival Foreign Correspondents Association Award and the Swarovski Trophy for Best Screenplay. Five LFS graduates took key crew roles on the film.

www.aricherlens.com

MOON, directed by 2001 graduate Duncan Jones, has received two BAFTA nominations, Outstanding British Film and Outstanding Debut for Duncan.

Two LFS Graduates have been selected for the Tiger Awards Competition of The International Film Festival Rotterdam (27 January - 7 February 2010). Paz Fabrega for her debut feature "Agua fría de mar" (Cold water of the Sea), which has a World premiere, and Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio for "Alamar" (To the Sea), which has a European premiere. More info at http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/iffr-2010/news-2010/competition-lineup-announced/

Raz de la Torre, C. 166, recently had his second term film "TOUCH ME NOT"ONDON" screened at the 21st CCP Independent Film & Video Competition, CCP Tanghalang Manuel Conde (Dream Theatre), Cultural Centre of the Philippines, 8-12 December 2009.

His documentary film "THE FILIPINO STUDENT'S GUIDE ON HOW TO BE INVISIBLE IN LONDON" won Third Prize in the Short Documentary Film Category, although was not screened as one the three girls in the documentary requested that it not be screened during the festival. The Gawad CCP Independent Film and Video Competition is the longest-running film and video competition in the Philippines. It is a competition for works in 16mm, 35mm for film and DVD and Mini-DV formats for video.