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PROPER EYES (Por sus propios ojos)

A film by Liliana Paolinelli


AWARDS

Best Film
2008 Premio Semilla Cero Latitude Film Festival

The Audience Award
Best Foreign Actress for Ana Carabajal
Best Foreign Screenplay (for director Liliana Paolinelli)
Special Jury Prize
2008 Gramado Film Festival, Gramado, Brazil

Prix Cinéma en Construction 11º
2007 Toulouse International Film Festival

Winner Best Feature Screenplay
Agencia Córdoba Cultura SE 2006

Best Actress
2007 Biarritz International Film Festival (Ana Carabajal)
2007 Biarritz International Film Festival (Luisa Núñez)

Special Jury Prize – Best Actress
2007 Mannheim-Heildelberg International Film Festival (Ana Carabajal)

FESTIVALS

Oficial Selection 2008 AFI Fest


55th San Sebastián International Film Festival
Official Selection- Horizontes Latinos


16th Biarritz International Film Festival
Official Competition


56th Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival
Official Competition


19th Encuentros de Cine de América Latina
at the XXII Guadalajara International Film Festival
Cine en Construcción

Travelling Rennes (France)
REFLETS DU CINEMA IBERIQUE ET LATINO-AMERICAIN

Cinelatino Tuebingen Film Festival (Germany)

Vilnius International Film Festival "Kino Pavasaris" (Lithuania)

Febiofest (Czech Republic)

18th African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival (Milán)

SYNOPSIS

For her college thesis, film student Alicia (Ana Carabajal), along with her best friend Virginia (Mara Santucho), is making a documentary about the women in the lives of prisoners at a local jail. The only problem is no one is willing to be interviewed on camera. In comes Elsa (Luisa Núñez), a desperate woman, whose son, Luis (Maximiliano Gallo), has recently been arrested for a petty crime. Elsa will grant Alicia an interview, only if she visits Luis in jail. Alicia feels this is blackmail and tries to get out of it, but reluctantly agrees to Elsa's proposition. When Alicia's visits Luis in jail, her world collapses.

PRODUCTION COMPANIES

Mandrágora Producciones SRL (Argentina)
Les Films du Sud (France)

DISTRIBUTION

U.S. Distributor – FiGa Films, LLC

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CREDITS


CAST LIST

Ana Carabajal - Alicia
Luisa Núñez - Elsa
Maximiliano Gallo - Luis
Mara Santucho – Virginia



CREW LIST

Director and Screenplay - Liliana Paolinelli
Executive Producers - Paula Grandio, Cristina Fasulino, and Sol Martorell
Producer - Juan Solanas
Director of Photography - Martin Mohadeb
Cameraman - Ariel Ludin
Art Director - Mauro Guevara
Sound Director - Leandro de Loredo
Film Editor - Lorena Moriconi
Music - Vincent Artaud


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