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Santiago Maza’s ‘State of Silence,’ Produced by Diego Luna, Wins Top Award at Sanfic

Other big winners at Sanfic, Sanfic Industry: ‘I Trust You,’ ‘Our Memory,’ ‘Water Never Hurt,’ ‘Concert for a Single Voice’

World premiering at Tribeca this June, and recently picked up by Netflix for North and Latin America, with Rosa Bosch International representing overseas sales, “State of Silence”is fast-paced in its interviews and achieves an aesthetic cinematographic finish with the idea of ennobling the extraordinary courage of journalists portrayed, Maza explained to Variety. From Carpio, another first-time director, “Concert for a Single Voice” depicts the personal fall-out from Peru’s armed conflict as a young Peruvian architect now settled in Paris returns to Lima to confront his mother, just out of jail, for abandoning him in favor of political activism. Of other prizes at Sanfic, in the International Competition, Spanish writer-director-star Itsaso Arana won a best direction special mention for “The Girls Are Alright,” “a gentle study of female friendship that blows in on a warm summer breeze,” said Variety.

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