“Clandestine Childhood” Argentina’s Oscar bid tops Sur Awards

PanARMENIAN.Net - Clandestine Childhood, Argentina’s Oscar bid for the 2013 Foreign Oscars, was the big winner this week at the Sur Awards, the local Oscars given by the Argentine Film Academy, The Hollywood Reporter said.

Armando Bo’s Sundance entry The Last Elvis came in a distant second with six statues, while Pablo Giorgelli’s festival hit and Camera D’Or winner Las Acacias, picked up only two.

Benjamin Avila’s coming of age story won 10 of its 16 nominations, sweeping the main awards and leaving no chances for Pablo Trapero’s White Elephant, the other big nominee that went home empty-handed, together with Ana Piterbarg’s Everybody Has a Plan, the first incursion in Argentine cinema by Viggo Mortensen, who grew up in the country and is currently attached to renowned art-house filmmaker Lisandro Alonso’s next film, which he will also produce.