NEWS.- One more year the festival of Berlin International Film Festival has delivered the Teddy Awards that award gay, lesbian and transgender films. The idea of these awards arose in 1987, when it was confirmed the need for LGBT films to have an echo beyond the homosexual environment, with a presence in the general press that until now had been denied them. The name of Teddy is given by the main award given by the festival that is the Golden Bear and the original design of the trophy, a bear sitting on a Berlin cobblestone, was run by the famous gay comic artist Ralf Köning, To who Gayles.tv He dedicated in his day a report that you can see again here. Competitions of similar characteristics would be the Sebastiane Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival or the Queer Lion at the Mostra in Venice.
Since the first Teddy gala that was held at 1990 and that won Pedro Almodóvar with "The Law of Desire", the Teddy is an indicator of the good health enjoyed by LGTBI cinema today.
In this edition, the overwhelming presence of Latin American films, especially from Chile and Uruguay, stands out. The prize for the best fiction feature was for "Nasty Baby", Chilean film Sebastián Silva that also stars with Tunde Adebimpe. The film, English-language and produced in the United States, tells the story of a gay Brooklyn interracial couple who decides to have a child and start a family with the help of a friend.
In the category of essay and documentary, Teddy has recognized the work of the Uruguayan Aldo Garay for his movie "The new man". Garay has followed for 20 years the traces of a Nicaraguan leftist activist, first as Sandinista in Nicaragua and later in Uruguay as Tupamaro. This man, over time, decides to undergo a sex reassignment intervention to continue his life as a woman.
Finally, the festival rewarded the Chilean filmmaker Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo for his short film "San Cristobal", which tells of the struggle of two young people who try to live their love relationship in the homophobic environment of a small provincial city in southern Chile.
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