'I'd Receive' wins Huelva

HUELVA, The country-- Beto Brant and Renato Ciasca's steamy melodrama, "I'd Get the Worst News Out Of Your Beautiful Lips," won the very best Golden Colombus Saturday at Andalusia's 37th Huelva Ibero-American Festival. The plaudit, along with a cinematography jerk for Lula Araujo, function as artistic vindication for just one of Brazil's first recent new wave company directors to draw in worldwide attention with stylish thrillers for example 1997's "Belly Up" and "Friendly Fire" annually later. Among the greatest local preems at October's Rio Festival, "I'd Receive" won Camila Pitanga best actress but demonstrated a speaking point more because of its energetic sex moments than artistic achievement.Huelva's Special Jury Prize visited Argentina's "The Kitty Vanishes," a mental thriller turning around marital mistrust that marks a big change of direction because of its director Carlos Sorin.Otherwise, major kudos visited company directors that, though not always much more youthful than Brant, have damaged through abroad within the last 10 years. The greatest champion along with a buzzed up title at Huelva was Andres Wood ("Machuca") whose Chilean Oscar entry, "Violeta Visited Paradise," scooped direction and, predictably, actress (Francisca Gavilan), because of its portrait of singer-songwriter Violeta Parra. Osmar Nunez nabbed actor for his perf as Argentine ruler Juan Peron in Paula p Luque's "Juan and Avoi."Script visited Colombian director Carlos Moreno and the regular writing partner Alonso Torres for Sundance player "All Of Your Dead Ones," a blackly comic vision of local authority and media management of Colombia's mass killings.Popular at March's Guadalajara Fest, Mexican first-timer Patricia Martinez p Velasco's family comedy "Between Us" re-confirmed its crowd-pleasing potential winning Huelva's audience award.Fest went November.19-26. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com