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Oh, what a wonderful way to start Day 4: Oscar surprise! The
Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos) nabs the Academy Award
for Best Foreign-language Film!
A MIFF Kodak Moment: The folks at Eastman Kodak are always looking to help the next generation of
filmmakers, and they returned with a festival favorite, their hands-on,
learn-as-you-go guide to shooting your first film, a key offering of the REEL Education Seminar Series. And CNN’s top entertainment correspondent, K.J. Matthews, hopped the red eye right
after her live coverage of last night’s pre-Oscar ceremony Red Carpet outside
L.A.’s Kodak Theatre to be here in
time today to moderate the sell-out panel “Finding
Your Place in the Industry,” which featured insights from HBO Latino’s Leslie Cohen and Screen
Actors Guild’s Leslie Krensky,
among other industry insiders.
Directors Vladimir
Perisic (Ordinary People), Calin
Peter Netzer (Medal of Honor), Cristián
Jiménez (Optical Illusions) and Jesper
Ganslandt (The Ape), were still in town today plugging their second
screenings for audiences, but today the fraternity of filmmakers grew to
include Enrique Buchichio, director
of the Uruguayan entry Leo’s Room (El cuarto de Leo), about
a twentysomething’s exploration of his sexual identity in ultra-conservative,
modern Montevideo, which is a nominee in our Ibero-American Competition.
Jurors and directors mixed it up at the by-invitation-only
Happy Hour (which began at 5:30 p.m. and lasted almost three!) at the Raleigh hotel on Collins Avenue. In
attendance: Ganslandt; Perisic; festival directors Vivian Donnell Rodriguez and Tiziana
Finzi; acclaimed German director and our Career Achievement Tribute honoree
Margarethe von Trotta; FIPRESCI
jurors Andrea Martini and Andres Nazarala R.; Cutting the Edge Competition juror Maria Martinez-Cañas of Miami-Dade College; World Competition jurors Bob Smeaton, Hannes Stöhr and Alexis dos
Santos; and, DOX Competition
jurors Elda Guidinetti and David Courier of the Sundance Film Festival.
Classical music lovers and opera-philes poured into the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts
for the only screening of storied Spanish director Carlos Saura’s cinematic splendor I, Don Giovanni, about
the life of 17th-century poet Lorenzo da Ponte, who penned many of
Mozart’s operatic masterpieces. The film marks Saura’s fifth collaboration with
Oscar-winning cinematographer Vittorio
Storaro of Apocalypse Now, Reds and The Last Emperor fame.
That’s a wrap!
by Dana Ballestero, Daily Wrap Editor
VIEW DAILY WRAP Day 5: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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