Santiago Maza’s ‘State of Silence,’ Produced by Diego Luna, Wins Top Award at Sanfic
variety.comDiego Luna at Mexico-based label La Corriente del Golfo where he partners with Gael García Bernal, has walked off with a coveted best feature award at this year’s Sanfic Festival in Santiago de Chile.
Further big winners were Agustín Toscano’s “I Trust You,” which took best direction in Sanfic International Competition and “Our Memory” from Matías Rojas Valencia and “The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine,” from Alfredo Pourally, which shared top best feature honors in Sanfic’s Chilean Film Competition.
Major winners at Sanfic Industria, Sanfic’s vibrant industry forum, were led by Caye Casas’ “El Show del Gran Luciferio,” his follow-up to “The Coffee Table,” which Stephen King consecrated by applauding it as “horrible and also horribly funny.
Think the Coen Brothers’ darkest dream.” “Water Never Hurt,” from Argentina’s Ana Clara Bustelo, and “Concert for a Single Voice,” directed by Peru’s Alejandra Carpio, won double in Sanfic Industria’s Ibero-American Work in Progress, its industry centerpiece. ‘State of Silence’: What Marks It Apart Doc features have been made before on Mexico’s appalling death count of journalists: from 2000 to the beginning of 2024, 163 have been murdered and 32 remain missing, a pre-credit roll stat notes in “State of Silence.” What sets “State of Silence” apart, however, is its sense of intimacy as its follows the lives of four journalists who refuse to be silent about Mexico’s crux: the toxic mix of organized crime syndicates and local governments, or narco-politics.
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