“Embrace of the Serpent,” “Ixcanul” lead Platino Award noms May 31, 2016 - 12:36 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Colombia's Oscar-nominated Embrace of the Serpent (El Abrazo de la Serpiente) and Guatemala's acclaimed drama Ixcanul have each garnered eight Platino Award nominations, including best picture, it was announced Thursday, May 31, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Both films have made history in their respective countries. Ciro Guerra's Amazon jungle-set drama Embrace last year became the first Colombian picture to ever land an Academy Award nomination. Jayro Bustamante's Ixcanul, winner of the Berlin International Film Festival's Alfred Bauer Award last year, was Guatemala's first-ever Oscar submission in the foreign-language category. Embrace and Ixcanul will vie for best picture honors against Pablo Trapero's El Clan, from Argentina; Pablo Larrain's El Club, from Chile; and Cesc Gay's Truman, from Spain. El Club, El Clan and Truman grabbed six Platino noms each. The Platinos were launched in 2014 as a platform to promote movies hailing from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. The awards ceremony will air July 24 live from Uruguay on TNT Latin America.   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity  The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization.Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia.Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |
