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23rd Grand Prix CIFFT: Photos & Press Release

The Grand Prix CIFFT was granted – The best tourism film of the year comes from colorful Mexico

CIFFT, the Comité International des Festivals du Film Touristique, elected Mexico winner of the best tourism film of the year within the Grand Prix CIFFT. The Awards Ceremony took place on November 11th, 2011 at the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKO) in Vienna

Vienna, 11.11.2011 – The CIFFT Circuit comprises of 14 international tourism film festivals and counts approximately 1.400 participating films in 2011. After the double victory of India and Spain in 2009, and the Styrian victory in the preceding year, Mexico with their film „Mexico en tus sentidos“ (Mexico in your senses) soon emerged as the palpable overall winner this year. Thus, the production had been granted the highest award of the festival year at the traditional Awards Ceremony in Vienna: the Grand Prix CIFFT for the best tourism film of the year. The so-called „mentions“, recognition awards for similarly successful tourism films, went to Austria, Denmark, Poland, Hungary and Sweden.

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