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Colombian film ‘Porfirio’ wins Belgium film awards

by Stephen Manker July 25, 2011

Colombia News - Porfirio

Colombian film “Porfirio” won an award at Belgium film festivals L’Age d’Or and Cinedecouvertes last week, various media reported.

The L’Age d’Or award, which was first introduced in 1973, is a tribute to Luis Bunel’s masterpiece “The Golden Age.” Winners receive $7,190 dollars for creating a film that is “cinematically nonconformist.”

The Cinedecouvertes, meanwhile, seek to promote the distribution of quality films in Belgium. Two awards of $15,000 dollars are given annually to recipients.

Porfirio is based on the story of a wheelchair-bound man named Porfirio, hijacking a plane with two grenades hidden in his diaper. The director has given the story a human angle, focusing on the dreams, hopes and aspirations of the disabled man, as opposed to the violent, bloody angle of the hijacking.

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