The Academy Awards are coming up this Sunday and a pair of Latin American films is among the five finalists to receive Best Foreign Film accolades. Peru’s “The Milk of Sorrow” and “The Secret in Their Eyes” from Argentina are vying to become only the second Latin American movie to win the coveted award.
The list of Latin American Oscar winners have been relatively few aside from the likes of Jose Ferrer winning Best Actor in 1950 and Rita Moreno winning Best Supporting Actress in 1961. One of the most unique accomplishments in Oscar history can be attributed to the Mexican short film “Centinelas del silencio” (“Sentinels of Silence”). In 1972 the film became the only short film ever to win a pair of Academy Awards. (A subsequent rule change ensured that “Centinelas del silencio” would be the only film to ever recieve such a distinction).
Below is the first part of the movie that provides stunning aerial visuals of pre-Columbian sites located in Mexico and Central America. Definitely worthy of the awards it received.
Online Sources- TIME, The Latin Americanist, YouTube, Wikipedia, IMDB
muchas gracias para este trailer
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