Memories of Overdevelopment / Memorias del Desarrollo by Miguel Coyula (U.S-Cuba) won the Havana Star Prize for Best Picture as voted by the jury members: Louis Perego Moreno, Michael Hausman, and Sandy Lieberson. The Havana Star for Best director went to Rafi Mercado for his film Miente / Lie (Puerto Rico); the Best Screenplay prize went to Ray Figueroa for La Bodega / The Warehouse (Guatemala) and the Special Jury Mention went to Huacho (Chile) directed by Alejandro Fernandez. The Closi...

Adding on to its tradition of recognizing the best Latin films during the annual film festival, this year the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) will bestow its audience with a prize through Lotería LALIFF, a lottery contest where the public will have to match the eight images that appear on each lottery carton with its corresponding definition. The completed carton will be entered in a drawing that will take place during the closing ceremony of the festival.Clues to each c...