‘Heli,’ ‘Easy,’ ‘Moon’ Compete For Palm Springs Cine Latino Award

By John Hopewell, Variety

MADRID – Amat Escalante’s “Heli,” David Trueba’s “Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed” and Bruno Barreto’s “Reaching For the Moon” are among 21 features from Latin America and Spain that will compete for 2014’s Cine Latino Award at the Palm Springs Festival, which kicks off Friday.

This year’s richly diverse competition boasts five foreign-language Oscar submissions – Spain’s “15 Years and One Day,” Chile’s “Gloria,” Uruguay’s “Anina,” Mexico’s “Heli” and Argentina’s “The German Doctor” – and four large international sales hits: “Gloria,” which took best actress for Paulina Garcia at Berlin; Cannes Un Certain Talent winner “La jaula de oro”; Lucia Puenzo’s “The German Doctor,” a Samuel Goldwyn Films U.S. pick-up; and Chilean Marcela Said’s “The Summer of Flying Fish,” one of AMC/Sundance Channel Global’s first two Latino movie pick-ups for its new Latin American Sundance Channel.

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