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 News from Around Banderas Bay | April 2005 
Cazals Receives Iguana de Oro Award
 PVNN
| | The IX Annual Puerto Vallarta International Film Festival continues through April 14th. |
Puerto Vallarta - The 2005 International Film Festival in Puerto Vallarta got off to a great start as Mayor Gustavo González Villaseñor, in the company of Centro Universitario de la Costa Director Javier Orozco Alvarado, presented film director Felipe Cazals with a special Iguana de Oro award at the CUC's Juan Luis Cifuentes Lemus auditorium on April 8th.
In response to such an important event, that gets more popular every year, Secretary General Antonio Lugo Moral attended the Film Festival's opening ceremony, in which Felipe Cazals was recognized for his 40 year career in cinema and one of his most successful films, Las Poquianchis, was shown in a special screening.
Upon receiving the award, Cazals declared that in the last 35 years a decisive part of his work has been conceived here in Puerta Vallarta, giving the award even more significance. In a poetic tone, he declared that Puerto Vallarta has been the source of his inspiration on many occasions, and fondly recalls sitting with his companion Eugenia by the ocean under the full moon on his first visit to Puerto Vallarta.
He went on to say that his first visit to Vallarta persists in his memory with the same clarity as the virtues of her people, saying "[Vallarta's] unfailing hospitality has passed every test for a true and lasting friendship. The town's favorable environment provides me with an infinite number of ideas and narrative solutions for producing different film stories set in Puerto Vallarta."
He also said that Vallarta has always been an oasis for him when he encounters adversity or his mood is intemperate; saying, "there is nothing better for curing the wounds of misunderstanding than closing my eyes under the sun and opening them again at dusk, when the sky and the sea of Vallarta let me know that down here, there is nothing to fear."
The IX Annual Puerto Vallarta International Film Festival continues through April 14th, with films from Mexico and Latin America being shown at Cine Versailles ($40 pesos), Cine Bahia ($38 pesos), CUC (free), and Los Arcos on the Malecón (free). Films are in Spanish and are not subtitled.
For more information, movie schedules and show times, click HERE |
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