Jury & Latin Angel Awards

Latin Angel Awards

Latin Angel Awards & presentation winning jury film
Wednesday May 14, 20.00
Free entry
 
At the final nigth, Wednesday May 14th the festival is officialy closed by the Latin Angel Awards ceremony. The following Angels are presented:

Jury Award Best Feature
Youth Jury Award Best Feature
Audience Award Best Feature
Audience Award Best Documentary
 
After the award ceremony, the winning juryfilm is shown for free.
 
19.30 Drinks & live music
20.00 Latin Angel Awards ceremony
20.30 Winning Jury film

Jury

Heddy Honigmann (Lima, 1951) is a Peruvian-Dutch filmmaker. She studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and lives and works in Holland since 1978. Both her two feature films (Hersenschimmen and Tot Ziens) and her documentaries have won many national and international prizes. Tot ziens, Het ondergronds orkest and Forever have won the Dutch Film Critic Award, and Crazy and Forever have been awarded with the Gouden Kalf at the Nederlands Film Festival. Recently she has received two important life achievement awards: at the Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto and at the International Film Festival in San Francisco. Heddy: “Latin American films often tend to carry a message. I will pay attention to it whether
this message is being carried out in a subtle way by the characters. I think it’s important that a film is born out of necessity and that it has a soul.”

Is Hoogland (1961) is film programmer in the Melkweg Cinema in Amsterdam since 1994. Here he is also responsible for the film program of Semana de Cine Español, that takes place every two years. Within the Melkweg Cinema he focuses on the less known side of cinema with a special attention for European genre films, anime, music, karate and cult. Hoogland was one of the programmers in film theatre Desmet in the nineties where he started the cult program The Last Movie, for which he received Samuel Fuller as a guest for his retrospective. A few years later he moved his activities to film theatre Cavia where he started the cult program Cine Fantástico. His slogan: ‘films have to be genuine and excentric.’

Jacobine van der Vloed (1976) studied History at the University of Utrecht and specialized in Cultural History. She started working at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where she is responsible for organizing its yearly market for international coproduction. A platform where filmmakers and producers can present their projects to potential financers such as distributors and sales agents. She is also a member of the selection commission of the Hubert Bals Fund, that supports film projects from non-Western countries, among which many projects from Latin America. She visits many film festivals to search for new film projects for both CineMart and Hubert Bals Fund. As a jury member Van der Vloed will focus on “originality in style and form. But most of all the visual aspect, the storyline, sound, etc must coincide in a natural way. A good film has to have an impact that should stay with you for days, months, and sometimes even years!”

André Waardenburg (1969) is editor in chief of the Dutch film magazine Skrien and writes film reviews for the Dutch daily paper NRC Handelsblad. In 1995 he received a Master of Arts degree in Film and Art Theory at the University of Kent in Canterbury, and graduated in 1996 at the Film Studies Department of the University of Amsterdam, where he taught film history and film analysis for a few years. Since 2000 he’s a fulltime film critic. According to Waardenberg there are some elements that help make a good film: “It’s very difficult to explain, but here’s the short version: an almost chemical combination of factors, where a written story gets transformed into images. Preferably images that don’t need too much explanation - through dialogue -to be understood by millions of people.”

Eddy Wijngaarde (1943) is founder of The Backlot, an organisation that is dedicated to enriching cultural life in Surinam, with a special focus on feature films and documentaries. Since 2002 he’s been organising and programming two film festivals: IDFA Fliews T(r)opics and IFFR Flies Paramaribo. He has a long history in film and media world. He’s been among others the (executive) producer of films such as The Flying Dutchmen, Paramaribo Papers, Looking for Eileen and documentaries like Sike and The Battle of the Java Sea.