Juan Sebastián Mesa and Tatiana Huezo won San Sebastián Industry Awards in WIP Latam, while Felipe Solari Yrigoyen’s “The Amateurs” received the Best Project Award at the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum.
The forum’s other listed prizes went to Ingrid Pokropek’s “The Illusions” (Dale! Award) and Selma Cervantes’ “Mourning Sound” (Artekino International Prize). Val Jashari’s “In a Manner of Speaking” won WIP Europa’s Industry Award; Ikusmira Berriak recognized Inês Nunes’ “The Spirit Healer Is Away for the Weekend” and Ekain Albite’s “Akira.”
The article profiles Mesa’s WIP Latam project “Lovers Go Home!”, about a webcam performer who forms a bond with a disabled war veteran through virtual conversations, and Huezo’s “Galerna,” about casting directors searching remote Mexico for natural actors for a science-fiction production. “The Amateurs” centers on a convention of people dressed as movie characters where the Maltese Falcon statuette and a mysterious Russian guest vanish.
