Queer Porto 2 Winners
The Official Competition Jury, composed by Júlio Dolbeth (artist, illustrator, professor), Tom Kalin (North-American filmmaker) and Sandra Lopes (RTP producer) decided to give the Award for Best Film to Te Prometo Anarquía (Mexico, Germany, 2015), by Julio Hernández Cordón, an award worth 3.000,00€, given by RTP2 Public TV Channel, for purchasing the exhibition rights of the film.
The Jury said: “Julio Hernández Cordón’s Te Prometo Anarquía is a beautiful film with great vitality and naturalism – though the film deals with difficult subject matter – street kids surving by selling plasma – it does so with a light touch. The movie invites the viewer in with great subtlety, it allows us to see these though street kids with tenderness and dimension. The film captures innocence and childlike wonder within a harsh urban world. We never lose the culture of skateboarding and discover, in inventive visual ways, the central role of the skateboard. The movie avoids clichés about teenage sexuality and captures a fresh, modern view of the variety of sexual expression and is enhanced by a bold intimate camera. The use of music is surprising and weaves many cultural references into a distinctly Mexican voice.”
The Queer Porto 2 Audience decided to give the Audience Award to La Vanité (Switzerland, France, 2015), by Lionel Baier.
The Jury also gave the Award for Best School Short Film to Viagem (Portugal, 2015), by José Magro, a non-monetary award in film equipment and/or services. The Jury said: "The film captures a distinctly Portuguese world without showing us what we’ve known before. With relatively little dialogue and an emphasis on behavior and the mystery of the human face, the viewer is taken on an epic journey through small moments suggesting great emotion under a very quiet surface. This short film lingered on long after viewing it. The central performance of Alex is powerful, full of subtext and true moments.”
Queer Porto 2 continues tomorrow, Sunday, 9th October, at Teatro Rivoli with the screening of the last films from the New Queer Cinema Retrospective: The Living End, by Gregg Araki, and Poison, by Todd Haynes, as well as the repetition of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie. In malavoadora.porto it will take place the short film program Normcore Narratives and the installation/performance in work-in-progress Su8Marino, created by Joana Castro.