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Spain’s ‘Society of the Snow,’ ‘20,000 Species of Bees’ Sweep the Platino Awards
In a triumphant night for Spain, J.A. Bayona’s Oscar-nominated “Society of the Snow” swept the top prizes at Platino Xcaret.
Bayona’s harrowing account of the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash, from which only 16 people survived after 72 days stranded in the Andes, became Netflix’s second most-viewed non-English film of all time. Xcaret also became the backdrop for a gathering of Argentine filmmakers and their supporters from across Ibero-America to protest the disastrous changes impacting Argentina’s lauded film industry – boasting 25 Platino nominations this year. Chile also snagged big wins at this 11 th edition, with Pablo Larrain’s “El Conde” and Maite Alberdi’s poignant docu, “The Eternal Memory,” both Oscar-nominated, clinching awards.
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