By AIN / radioangulo.icrt.cu / Monday, 09 May 2011 11:56. "Jose Marti, the Eye of the Canary" has won several awards.The  Mexican Film Academy has just granted the movie ‘Jose Marti: el ojo del canario’ (Jose Marti: the Eye of the Canary) the coveted Ariel Award, which adds a new acknowlegdement to the movie produced by Cuban filmmaker Fernando Perez.‘Jose Marti: el ojo del canario’, which narrates the early years and adolescence of the Cuban writer and independence hero, won in the category of Best Iberian-American Film of the 53rd Ariel Awards, a distinction shared with the movie “Tambien la lluvia”, by Spanish Iciar Bollain.">By AIN / radioangulo.icrt.cu / Monday, 09 May 2011 11:56. "Jose Marti, the Eye of the Canary" has won several awards.The  Mexican Film Academy has just granted the movie ‘Jose Marti: el ojo del canario’ (Jose Marti: the Eye of the Canary) the coveted Ariel Award, which adds a new acknowlegdement to the movie produced by Cuban filmmaker Fernando Perez.‘Jose Marti: el ojo del canario’, which narrates the early years and adolescence of the Cuban writer and independence hero, won in the category of Best Iberian-American Film of the 53rd Ariel Awards, a distinction shared with the movie “Tambien la lluvia”, by Spanish Iciar Bollain.">

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Mexico Grants Ariel Award to Cuban Film on the Life of Jose Marti

By AIN / radioangulo.icrt.cu / Monday, 09 May 2011 11:56. "Jose Marti, the Eye of the Canary" has won several awards.The  Mexican Film Academy has just granted the movie ‘Jose Marti: el ojo del canario’ (Jose Marti: the Eye of the Canary) the coveted Ariel Award, which adds a new acknowlegdement to the movie produced by Cuban filmmaker Fernando Perez.

‘Jose Marti: el ojo del canario’, which narrates the early years and adolescence of the Cuban writer and independence hero, won in the category of Best Iberian-American Film of the 53rd Ariel Awards, a distinction shared with the movie “Tambien la lluvia”, by Spanish Iciar Bollain.

The film was selected by critics as one of the top ten movies screened in Cuba in 2010 and it also won most of the collateral awards of the 32nd International Festival of Latin American Cinema, which took place in Havana last December.

It was also nominated for the 25 Goya Awards of Spain in the category of Best Foreign Film.

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