Havana Film Festival New York announces the First Annual Havana Star Prize

The Havana Star prize (click to enlarge)

Films in competition:

1. Castro
2. Cronicas Chilangas
3. Dawson, Isla 10
4. Los Dioses Rotos
5. El Premio Flaco
6. Hermafrodita
7. Historias Extraordinarias
8. Huacho
9. La Bodega
10. La Pasion de Gabriel
11. La Tigra, Chaco
12. Libertador Morales, El Justiciero
13. Miente
14. Veronica
15. Memorias del Desarollo

Jury:

MICHAEL HAUSMAN received his B.A. from Cornell in 1957. He was the producer of Homicide, Valmont, Things Change, House of Games, Silkwood, Desert Bloom, Heartland, Alambrista, Rich Kids, One Trick Pony, Mikey and Nicky, and The People vs. Larry Flynt. He was also executive producer of Amadeus, No Mercy, Places in the Heart, Ragtime, The Firm, Nobody’s Fool, Twilight, Man on the Moon, Gangs of New York, Brokeback Mountain, and All The King’s Men. Additionally, Mike served on many of these films as Assistant Director or Production Manager. He is also the Co-Chair of the Producing department at EICTV, Cuba, runs a buffalo ranch in Montana, and is president of Cinehaus, Inc.

SANDY LIEBERSON (Chair, Film London) has been a major figure in the film industry in Europe and America since the 1960s, having acted as an agent for Sergio Leone, Peter Sellers, Lindsay Anderson and the Rolling Stones. He formed Goodtimes with David Puttnam in 1970, going on to produce some of the most significant films of the 1970s and 1980s. From 1977 Sandy was the first vice president of International Pictures and Marketing and later president of production at 20th Century Fox, supervising the international launches of, among others, the early Star Wars films, and supervising the production of films by Herzog, Roeg, Bertolucci, Zinneman, Kurosawa and Ridley Scott. Sandy is currently an advisor and contributor to a wide range of organisations and projects dedicated to the development of talent and skill in the film and media industries.

LOUIS E. PEREGO MORENO An Interactive Content Producer who for the past 28 years has owned Skyline Features, a bilingual (English and Spanish-language) multimedia and educational production company focusing on culture, youth, women and health. His specialty is developing documentaries, television programming and commercials featuring Latinos, Blacks, Urban Youth, Women, LGBT and Children with Disabilities. Louis custom-tailors content for multiplatform media: television, Internet, print, radio and public venues. He was as founder and Executive Director in 1993 of non-profit organization, Skyline Community; in which 1,500 Latino and Black youth over nearly 10 years in New York City, Newark and New Brunswick, N.J. produced 70 documentary shorts addressing social, public and mental health issues. Many of these award-winning documentary shorts screened at domestic and international film festivals and nine documentaries aired on HBO Family. Louis is President of the New York National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP), member of International Documentary Association (IDA) and Board member of Center for Latino Arts & Culture, Rutgers University. Skyline’s work has been featured on NPR, CBS, NBC, Fox TV, Univision, PBS, and El Diario de la Prensa.

Rules:

Rules for the Havana Star 2010 prize are available in English and Spanish. To read them, please download this document.