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1966
Mar del Plata International Cinematographic Festival From 2 to 12 March, 1966, organized by the Cinematographic Festivals and Argentinean Cinema International Promotion Association.
President: Enzó Ardigó (journalist)
Vice-president: Atilio Mentasti (producer)
Treasurer: Raúl Valverde San Román (Argentinean Cinematographic Industry Trade Union)
Secretary: Duilio Marzio (actor)
Members- Senior Members:
Sixto Pondal Ríos (author), Mario Maurano (musician), Oscar Lagomarsino
(scenographer), Rodolfo Corral (short film), Juan F. Aranguren
(laboratories), José Rodríguez Pendás (news), Antonio García
Smith (producer) and Lucas Demare (director)
The Great Jury was composed of
- Ulyses Petit de Murat, President (author, Argentina)
- Fernando Ayala (director, Argentina)
- Catrano Catrani (director, Argentina)
- Duilio Marzio (Actor, Argentina)
- Antonin M. Brousil (theoretician and cinematographic crític. Prague Acadamy of Arts Director, Czecoslovaquia)
- Manuel Summers (director, Spain)
- Abby Mann (author, USA)
- Pierre Barbin (Tours and Annecy Festival Director, France)
- Leonardo
Fioravanti (theoretician and cinematographic crític.Cinematographic
Experimental Centre of Rome and National Cinematheque Director, Italy)
- Rünne Waldecransz (theoretician, Sweden)
- Grigori Kozintsev (director, USSR)
Great Jury Awards: Southern Cross Gold Plaque
- Best Film: At’ zije republika, by Karel Kachyna (Czecoslovaquia)
- Best Director: Antonio Pietrangeli, for Io la conoscevo bene (Italy/France)
- Best Female Performance: Mireille Darc, for Galia, by Georges Lautner (France)
- Best Male Performance: Evgueni Lebedev, for Posledniy Mesyats oseni, by Vadim Derbenyov )USSR)
- Best Plot: Beatriz Guido, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Mabel Itzcovich, Edmundo Eichelbaum and Joe Goldberg, for El ojo que espía / The Eavesdropper (Argentina/USA)
- Best Short Film: Que se callen, by Felipe Cazalz (Mexico), as a human document of León Felipe’s poetic work.
- Award to Production: Io la conoscevo bene, by Antonio Pietrangeli. Producer: Turi Vasile (Italy/France)
Special Awards
- To all the performers of Syskonbädd 1782, by Vilgot Sjöman (Sweden)
- Duminica la ora 6, by Lucian Pintilie (Romania)
Critic Jury was composed of the following journalists
Fernando Chao, President (Argentina), Manuel González Casanovas
(Mexico), Franco Cauli (Italy), Arthur Knight (USA), Eduardo Calcagno,
Marcelo de Laferrere and Clara Fontana (Argentina)
Critic Jury Awards
- Best Film: At’ zije republika, by Karel Kachyna (Czecoslovaquia)
- Mention to First Feature Film: Duminica la ora 6, by Lucian Pintilie (Romania)
- Short Film: Kabaret (Poland)
- Stands out the film: Los bienamados, by Juan José Gurola and Juan Ibañez (Mexico), for being a “New Mexican Cinema” expression.
Jury of the Cinematography Catholic International Office (O.C.I.C.)
Jean-Marie Poitevin, President (Canada), Carlos Fernández Cuenca (Spain), Carlos M. Bervejillo and Betty M. Beathyato (Uruguay), Mariano Silva (Chile) and Marcelo J. Moreno (Argentina). Advisor: Jesuit Priest Carlos Alberto Duhourq (Argentina)
O.C.I.C Award
-The Slender Thread, by Sydney Pollak.
For considering that it has a direct and without rhetoric message about
the man’s sense of responsibility towards his fellow man, and the
cooperation of the society in that task, stressing the decisive help
offered selflessly. They aslo consider that the style is of enough
technical and artistic dignity and helps the story in a right way,
giving the film a universal value.
Confédération Internacionale pour la Diffusion des Arts et des Lettres par le Cinéma, CIDALC, is an institution created in 1930 to develop and study relationships among cinema and other arts, literature and music in particular. Its president in 1966 was one of the most important cinema music composers, Georges Auric. CIDALC award expresses the spirit of the institution and was granted for the first time in a Latin American Cinematographic Festival.
CIDALC Jury was composed of:
Mario Soffici, President (Argentina), Homero Alsina Thevenet (Uruguay),
Carlos Fernández Cuenca (Spain), José Dominianni and Roberto Tálice
(Argentina)
CIDALC Award
