Zinetika Festival 2023 Awards
Jan 8, 2024
The official awards for the VIII edition of ZINETIKA Festival have been announced:
- The Best Film Award of Zinetika 2023, with a prize of €300, goes to the American short film "Old Man at the Corner Store" by Nadav Heyman & Anabella Casanova.
- The Best Direction Award of Zinetika 2023, with a prize of €300, is awarded to Danish filmmaker Jeppe Lange, director of "Laws of Motion".
- Additionally, the jury has decided to grant an Honorable Mention to the Iranian work "I am my mother" by Mohammad Abbassi.
The jury for Zinetika 2023 consisted of Navarre filmmaker Ione Atenea, choreographer and co-director of La Faktoria Choreographic Center Marta Coronado, and film producer and director Rosa García Loire.
The prize money is in addition to the €100 remuneration received by all films in the Official Section of Zinetika 2023 for screening rights during the festival.
OTHER LIGHTS
The short films selected by the festival's organizers and featured in the Otras Luces festival include "Ahead Behind" (Ben Kadie, USA), "Move" (Bernando Alevato & Taianne Oliveira, Brazil), "Un cuerpo es" (Jaime Dezcallar, Spain), and "Absent Pressence" (Giorgia Ponticello, Italy).