04-16-2020, 06:24 PM
Name: A Different Life (2019) (Spanish: Una Vida Diferente)
Category: Best New IDU Film
Synopsis: Ines Casales grew up in Iustos, in a tiny flat with four younger siblings, her parents and grandparents. Since her early childhood, she has been forced to look after her siblings, and has been neglected herself. When her family forgets her 18th birthday, because they’re too wrapped up in their own affairs, she becomes angry, and decides to run away. She stows away on a ship to Lauchenoiria, and sneaks into the country.
Wandering through the streets of Summersea, she stumbles upon a house party in the wealthy district and decides to gate-crash. She ends up dancing with a wealthy Xiomeran 20-year-old whose parents run a business in Lauchenoiria, and the night ends with him gifting her a necklace. Unbeknownst to him, as he says the necklace was his mother’s, the necklace is worth an extremely large amount of money. Ines sells the necklace to a jewellery shop owner, Patricio Herrero, and has enough money to buy a fancy house, and reinvents herself, pretending she is a wealthy socialite.
At first everything is going smoothly, and she becomes best friends with a wealthy Lauchenoirian from Butterfly Island, Casandra Robles, until the man who gifted her the necklace is found murdered, with evidence that he was tortured before his death. Ines begins to look into the murder, and when she returns home to find her house has been searched, she begins to worry that the murderer was seeking the necklace. She realises she needs to find out who killed Cāxiuh… before she is killed herself.
Unwilling to admit to her wealthy friends like Casandra that she sold the necklace in order to seek help, she begins to look into the affair herself, and her friendship with Casandra slowly dissipates. She discovers that Cāxiuh’s mother had been born into poverty, and had not owned an expensive necklace – Cāxiuh had lied. Further investigation reveals that Cāxiuh stole the necklace, and had come to Lauchenoiria fleeing from those pursuing him. He had given her the necklace to get rid of the evidence.
She rushes to the place where she sold the necklace, only to find it had been destroyed in a fire the previous evening. An elderly man, who is seen throughout the film watching her as she investigates the murder, comes over to her, and tells her that it was arson, and that someone had been seen leaving the building, holding a necklace. Patricio, who owned the shop, though, has lost everything as a result of the theft. Ines returns home, but cannot sleep, the guilt of what happened weighing on her.
The next morning, she goes to where the Patricio is staying, and hovers outside, uncertain. Eventually, she takes a deep breath, and walks up to the door…
Cast:
Ines Casales - Teófila Espinoza
Cāxiuh - Xīyauh
Partricio Herrero – René Salcedo
Casandra Robles – Jennifer Ureña
Elderly Man – Celino Asturias
Production and Filming: Following the war, the Lauchenoirian film industry has had many budget issues, however with Lauchenoiria hosting the 2018 festival shortly after the war, the industry benefitted from investment in a way that other “non-essential” industries did not. As such, there is no notable drop in quality from pre-war, despite the budgetary constraints. Filming took place primarily in Elopolis, despite the setting of Summersea, as a result of the destruction of much of that city during the war. The film was set in 2017, so prior to the war: a choice many film-makers in Lauchenoiria are making if they do not want the war to be a subject of the film.
The presence of a Xiomeran actor in a Lauchenoirian film, and the prominence of a Xiomeran character, was the cause of much surprise among critics. Interviews with Xīyauh suggest he viewed starring in a Lauchenoirian film as a new challenge, especially given the hostile relations between the two countries at the time of filming. However, the quality of the film was lauded by critics, and the plot was described as “gripping” by reviewers. It is thought that production on a sequel will begin soon.
Languages: Spanish
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Category: Best Actor
Name: Celino Asturias
Age: 72
About: Asturias has been a stalwart of Lauchenoirian Spanish-language film-making since 1967, when he was nineteen years old. He has starred in numerous films, including Sobre Un Estrella Fugaz. In his younger years, he was best-known for starring in action roles, including as the lead in a chain of Lauchenoirian spy movies called simply Espía. In his later years, he began to play “wise man” roles, and branched out into television, playing a wizard on the children’s show Castillo Mágico.
Due to ill health, he has recently begun taking on fewer roles, but recently played an unnamed elderly man in A Different Life, who appears throughout the film watching the main character, and at the end informs her of the fate of a man who lost everything. It is thought that a sequel to A Different Life may be announced soon, in which Asturias’ character would play a greater role. He has won many awards in Lauchenoiria during his time in the film industry.
Category: Best New IDU Film
Synopsis: Ines Casales grew up in Iustos, in a tiny flat with four younger siblings, her parents and grandparents. Since her early childhood, she has been forced to look after her siblings, and has been neglected herself. When her family forgets her 18th birthday, because they’re too wrapped up in their own affairs, she becomes angry, and decides to run away. She stows away on a ship to Lauchenoiria, and sneaks into the country.
Wandering through the streets of Summersea, she stumbles upon a house party in the wealthy district and decides to gate-crash. She ends up dancing with a wealthy Xiomeran 20-year-old whose parents run a business in Lauchenoiria, and the night ends with him gifting her a necklace. Unbeknownst to him, as he says the necklace was his mother’s, the necklace is worth an extremely large amount of money. Ines sells the necklace to a jewellery shop owner, Patricio Herrero, and has enough money to buy a fancy house, and reinvents herself, pretending she is a wealthy socialite.
At first everything is going smoothly, and she becomes best friends with a wealthy Lauchenoirian from Butterfly Island, Casandra Robles, until the man who gifted her the necklace is found murdered, with evidence that he was tortured before his death. Ines begins to look into the murder, and when she returns home to find her house has been searched, she begins to worry that the murderer was seeking the necklace. She realises she needs to find out who killed Cāxiuh… before she is killed herself.
Unwilling to admit to her wealthy friends like Casandra that she sold the necklace in order to seek help, she begins to look into the affair herself, and her friendship with Casandra slowly dissipates. She discovers that Cāxiuh’s mother had been born into poverty, and had not owned an expensive necklace – Cāxiuh had lied. Further investigation reveals that Cāxiuh stole the necklace, and had come to Lauchenoiria fleeing from those pursuing him. He had given her the necklace to get rid of the evidence.
She rushes to the place where she sold the necklace, only to find it had been destroyed in a fire the previous evening. An elderly man, who is seen throughout the film watching her as she investigates the murder, comes over to her, and tells her that it was arson, and that someone had been seen leaving the building, holding a necklace. Patricio, who owned the shop, though, has lost everything as a result of the theft. Ines returns home, but cannot sleep, the guilt of what happened weighing on her.
The next morning, she goes to where the Patricio is staying, and hovers outside, uncertain. Eventually, she takes a deep breath, and walks up to the door…
Cast:
Ines Casales - Teófila Espinoza
Cāxiuh - Xīyauh
Partricio Herrero – René Salcedo
Casandra Robles – Jennifer Ureña
Elderly Man – Celino Asturias
Production and Filming: Following the war, the Lauchenoirian film industry has had many budget issues, however with Lauchenoiria hosting the 2018 festival shortly after the war, the industry benefitted from investment in a way that other “non-essential” industries did not. As such, there is no notable drop in quality from pre-war, despite the budgetary constraints. Filming took place primarily in Elopolis, despite the setting of Summersea, as a result of the destruction of much of that city during the war. The film was set in 2017, so prior to the war: a choice many film-makers in Lauchenoiria are making if they do not want the war to be a subject of the film.
The presence of a Xiomeran actor in a Lauchenoirian film, and the prominence of a Xiomeran character, was the cause of much surprise among critics. Interviews with Xīyauh suggest he viewed starring in a Lauchenoirian film as a new challenge, especially given the hostile relations between the two countries at the time of filming. However, the quality of the film was lauded by critics, and the plot was described as “gripping” by reviewers. It is thought that production on a sequel will begin soon.
Languages: Spanish
*
Category: Best Actor
Name: Celino Asturias
Age: 72
About: Asturias has been a stalwart of Lauchenoirian Spanish-language film-making since 1967, when he was nineteen years old. He has starred in numerous films, including Sobre Un Estrella Fugaz. In his younger years, he was best-known for starring in action roles, including as the lead in a chain of Lauchenoirian spy movies called simply Espía. In his later years, he began to play “wise man” roles, and branched out into television, playing a wizard on the children’s show Castillo Mágico.
Due to ill health, he has recently begun taking on fewer roles, but recently played an unnamed elderly man in A Different Life, who appears throughout the film watching the main character, and at the end informs her of the fate of a man who lost everything. It is thought that a sequel to A Different Life may be announced soon, in which Asturias’ character would play a greater role. He has won many awards in Lauchenoiria during his time in the film industry.
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