Film about Chilean coup victim Allende wins Cannes best documentary award
Film about Chilean coup victim Allende wins Cannes best documentary award
CANNES FESTIVAL | 23 de Mayo de 2015
Cannes, France, May 23 (EFE).- The film "Allende Mi Abuelo Allende," by Chilean-Mexican director Marcia Tambutti, was the winner Saturday of the Golden Eye Award (L'Oeil d'Or) for the best documentary screened in all sections of the Cannes Film Festival.
The prize, which was awarded this year for the first time at the initiative of the Civil Society of Multimedia Authors, or SCAM, honored this "very personal film by a young moviemaker trying to break the silence about her legendary grandfather that has weighed on her family for decades."
Tambutti, granddaughter of the late Chilean President Salvador Allende, returned to Chile in 2007 from Mexico, where her family had gone into exile, in order to gather testimonies from her family about the more personal side of her grandfather's life.
The jury for the award with its 5,000-euro ($5,500) cash prize was presided over by French-Cambodian moviemaker Rity Panh, together with French director Nicolas Philibert, French actress Irene Jacob, Syrian producer Diana El Jeiroudi, and U.S. critic Scott Foundas.
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