The Cabildo has announced the results of the votes of the spectators of the XIII Lanzarote International Film Festival, who deposited their verdict in the ballot boxes that the organization arranged during the first week of short films at the Teatro Insular de Lanzarote.
The result of the count gives as winners, and preferred by the public, La estrategia de Madame Bretó (Audience Award for Best Documentary Short), Ngutu (Audience Award for Best National Short) and Perfetto (Audience Award for Best International Short). This year, none of the awarded shorts coincide with those chosen by the Official Jury.
The Festival organization highlights the high participation of the spectators of this edition, which in some cases exceeded 80 percent of those attending the screenings. The most participatory day was Thursday, April 11: of the 191 people who attended one of the sessions, a total of 145 cast their vote.
It should be remembered that each ballot delivered to the spectators allowed them to assess, with a score from 1 to 5, the quality of the 76 short films screened throughout the week.
The winners
La estrategia de Madame Bretó is a short film of manners directed by Zoraida Roselló from Barcelona, a young graduate in Geology who decided to give a new direction to her professional career, focusing on the possibilities of the audiovisual world. This short, the first of her career, is inspired by Lolita Bretó, one of the neighbors of the quiet town of Santa Bárbara, whose daily life holds great surrealist and humorous potential. The work of the Catalan filmmaker achieved 236 points.
Ngutu is the story of a newspaper street vendor, who carefully observes pedestrians in order to progress in his business. This short film is directed jointly by the young filmmakers Daniel Valledor (Caracas, 1983) and Enrique del Olmo (Madrid, 1985), both graduates in Audiovisual Communication. His story achieved 491 points, thus winning the Audience Award for Best National Short.
As for the third winning short, Perfetto, it is not the first time that it has won an Audience Award. This comedy, written and directed by Corrado Ravazzini, obtained a total of 413 points in Lanzarote. Ravazzini is a self-taught filmmaker whose international recognition is beginning to consolidate. He was a finalist in Triggerstreet, a contest organized by actor Kevin Spacey, and has participated in the New York International Film Festival.
The filmmakers who have obtained the Audience Award will receive the same sculpture as the short filmmakers who won the Official Competition Sections.
