>> 2013 Winter Film Awards Official Selections
Spain / Animated Short /
19 minutes / Spanish, English and Catalan
Director: Juan Montes De Oca
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In Palma de Mallorca, through a 5 year old child’s innocence, and common life coincidences, an African American homeless man remembers his nonsense life going back 45 years in New York. In the end, he finds a way to change his life to find at last the way to happiness.
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM, Festival De Cortometrajes (Spain) — AUDIENCE AWARD, Calaveras Film Festival (United States) — AUDIENCE AWARD, Muestra De Cortometrajes Visualia (Spain) — BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM, Mostra Internazionale Del Cortometraggio (Italy) — BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM & BEST SOUNDTRACK, Portobello Film Festival (UK) — BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM, Islantilla Cinefórum (Spain) — BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM, Deepfried Film Festival (UK) — BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM, L’ecran Cevenol – Festival International Du Film Video De Vebron (France) — BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM, Mosca – Mostra Audiovisual De Cambuquira (Brazil) — BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM, Naff Neum Animated Film Festival (Bosnia And Herzegovina) — BEST MUSIC, Festival De Cine De Sant Joan D’alacant (Spain) — BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM, Snake Alley Festival Of Film (United States) — FIRST PRIZE FOR THE INDEPENDENT ANIMATION, Premios Goya (Spain)
JUAN MONTES DE OCA was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. Since 1991, he has directed more than 200 animated short films, winning more than 100 international prizes and more than 700 nominations in the most important international events of the audio-visual technological creation, including 3 nominations to the GOYA for the best short of animation.
