Carlos Armella's (C.141) latest short, it was announced last Thursday, "TIERRA Y PAN" (Land and Bread) has won the top prize, the Golden Lion, in the VENICE FILM FESTIVAL's Short Film Competition.
The Festival states:
"Tierra Y Pan (Land and Bread)" by Mexican director Carlos Armella has won the top prize in the festival's short film competition. The eight-minute film deals with hunger in a desert landscape.
The jury cited Armella's capacity to "tell in (a) few minutes and in one space a dramatic tale of misery and loneliness."
Armella said that the most difficult part in making the film was keeping it simple.
"The goal was to provoke from the audience the feeling of having witnessed a very hard, tragic moment but without ever actually having seen it," Armella said in a statement.
The 30-year-old director studied scriptwriting in Mexico and filmmaking at the London Film School.
He co-directed and edited "Toro Negro," which won awards at the San Sebastian and the Havana film festivals, as well as "Born Without," which won a prize at the Mexico City International Contemporary Festival.