12-11-2018, 12:29 AM
Category: Best IDU Classic Film
Sobre Una Estrella Fugaz (Upon A Falling Star)
Year: 1973
Genre: Science-fiction
Language: Spanish (with English subtitles)
Plot: Gabriel Arenas (Teódulo Araujo) and Pilar Palomo (Mireya Herrera), a teenage couple living in Annatown sneak out to meet at night, and while out spot what appears to be a star falling from the sky. They head over fields to where it appeared to land in the north-west, and discover not a star but a shining portal. They step through the portal and find themselves in the year 2023. They discover the world is run by robots, and humans have become enslaved in the never-ending race to pursue profit. Corporations have replaced government and have created two classes of humans – a slave race destined to work until death, and a wealthy upper class who help the robots keep the underclass subdued.
The pair have to escape back to their own time, facing dangers such as robot assassins and humans desperate to please their robotic masters by capturing fugitives in exchange for food. They discover the events that led to this ending were set in motion fifty years prior, in their own time, by greedy individuals who were secretly working to take down the communist government and install an extreme capitalist regime where they could profit. The couple manage to return to their own time, swearing to stop the future. In the closing shot, however, an unnamed man is shown on a telephone, chuckling evilly as he discusses his plans for profit.
Further Notes: Due to the time of its production, Sobre Una Estrella Fugaz is naturally supportive of the Communist regime of the time. It has strong anti-capitalist themes, which at the time were seen as a pertinent warning about the dangers of foreign corporations, but in hindsight many see as a blatant propaganda attempt by the then-state-run Butterfly Film Company.
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Category: Best Actor
Name: June Peters
Age: 37
Peters is best known for playing Josephine Gardiner, a Liberal MP who was killed in the communist revolution, in The Economics of Love (winner of Best IDU Film in 2017). She has been acting since the age of 7, in which she played Lucy Lee, the daughter of the main characters in the popular sitcom A Swarm of Butterflies which followed a family living in rural Lauchenoiria and their escapades. Her performance in The Economics of Love was considered outstanding, and she has won many domestic awards for it.
Sobre Una Estrella Fugaz (Upon A Falling Star)
Year: 1973
Genre: Science-fiction
Language: Spanish (with English subtitles)
Plot: Gabriel Arenas (Teódulo Araujo) and Pilar Palomo (Mireya Herrera), a teenage couple living in Annatown sneak out to meet at night, and while out spot what appears to be a star falling from the sky. They head over fields to where it appeared to land in the north-west, and discover not a star but a shining portal. They step through the portal and find themselves in the year 2023. They discover the world is run by robots, and humans have become enslaved in the never-ending race to pursue profit. Corporations have replaced government and have created two classes of humans – a slave race destined to work until death, and a wealthy upper class who help the robots keep the underclass subdued.
The pair have to escape back to their own time, facing dangers such as robot assassins and humans desperate to please their robotic masters by capturing fugitives in exchange for food. They discover the events that led to this ending were set in motion fifty years prior, in their own time, by greedy individuals who were secretly working to take down the communist government and install an extreme capitalist regime where they could profit. The couple manage to return to their own time, swearing to stop the future. In the closing shot, however, an unnamed man is shown on a telephone, chuckling evilly as he discusses his plans for profit.
Further Notes: Due to the time of its production, Sobre Una Estrella Fugaz is naturally supportive of the Communist regime of the time. It has strong anti-capitalist themes, which at the time were seen as a pertinent warning about the dangers of foreign corporations, but in hindsight many see as a blatant propaganda attempt by the then-state-run Butterfly Film Company.
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Category: Best Actor
Name: June Peters
Age: 37
Peters is best known for playing Josephine Gardiner, a Liberal MP who was killed in the communist revolution, in The Economics of Love (winner of Best IDU Film in 2017). She has been acting since the age of 7, in which she played Lucy Lee, the daughter of the main characters in the popular sitcom A Swarm of Butterflies which followed a family living in rural Lauchenoiria and their escapades. Her performance in The Economics of Love was considered outstanding, and she has won many domestic awards for it.
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