Jury Prize for Lila Avilés
Marrakech Film Festival
December 9, 2018
In Marrakech Film festival, the jury prize went to Lila Avilés’ debut feature, “The Chambermaid,” about Eve, a maid in Mexico City’s Hotel Presidente Internacional, which Avilés describes as a “high-class prison.”
The Jury members were James Gray, Dakota Johnson, Joana Hadjithomas, Ileana D’Cruz, Lynne Ramsay, Tala Hadid, Daniel Bruhl, Laurent Cantet and Michel Franco.
When receiving the prize, Lila Avilés said : “I love Patti Smith. She says that she always follows a romantic path and that guide is her light. I hope I am that kind of woman. You have everything here in Marrakech – the mountains, the desert, the people, the handmade things. Everything.”
