Sunday, March 10, 2013

(ENG) Saturday March 2, FICG






bus trip from Morelia

I arrived in Guadalajara Saturday afternoon via ETN from Mexico City..

Saturday night was spectacular. I really had a sense of the scale of the Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara (FICG). I went with Franziska Köslin, who is a producer of films. We took the shuttle to the Auditorio Telmex,  a really swanky and huge auditorium in Zapopan. TV Azteca was covering it live and the stars were coming. I felt distinctly underdressed, but fortunately our seats were very high up and far from the nicely dressed.


The highlight of the evening was introducing the honorees:
Ángelina Molina, a stunningly beautiful Spanish actress who is in this year's selection BlancaNieves (Snow White) and who was in Buñuel's  That Obscure Object of Desire

Also Ernesto Gómez Cruz, a well known and prolific Mexican Actor was honored. His filmography is here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0350884/

Nordic Countries were honored in this year's film selections, and Jan Troell,  of Sweden was selected as the honoree director. He has done both documentary and fiction,.

Finally the film Kon-tiki was screened..it is in Swedish but it had Spanish subtitles. It is one of the most expensive Norwegian films produced and is about the voyage of Thor Heyerdahl and his team who sailed from Peru to Polynesia in 1947.

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