Staff Writer
Los Angeles, CA. – Carlos A. Hurtado, a multi award-winning Mexican-American director filmmaker, has received back to back film festival selections. The French Riviera Film Festival and the Lift-Off Global Network Music Video Filmmaker Showcase have both nominated Hurtado’s Sabor a Mi for Best Music Video.
Sabor a Mi was a passion project for successful film and TV composer David Lawrence who chose Hurtado to direct the music video for his re-imagined tribute to his mother 1960’s jazz/pop icon Eydie Gorme who made the song famous.
These are just the latest recognitions for Hurtado. The music video for Sabor a Mi has garnered a total of eight film festival nominations winning three awards. Last year Sabor a Mi won the Bronze Medal at the Global Music Awards and received an Honorable Mention at the Global Film Festival Awards in Los Angeles. So far in 2020 Sabor a Mi has won Best Latinx Music Video at the California Music Video & Film Awards. All of which add to Hurtado’s more than 200 film festival nominations and 63 wins.
“Just being selected for any film festival is a great honor, but to be nominated for more than 200 different festival categories leaves me incredibly humbled,” Hurtado said. “To have two more nominations and possibly win my 64th, and 65th award leaves my head spinning.”
The music video for Sabor A Mi has already been making the film festival rounds. In 2019 it received nominations for Best Music Video at both the Winter Film Awards International Film Festival in New York City and on the west coast at the Culver City Film Festival.
The Hurtado directed music video, recorded in the landmark Los Angeles nightclub El Cid, and produced by Jose Mayorquin and associated producer Elvira Barboa’s E-Striving, features actress Nitzia Chama, as well as a cameo by renowned singer-actor Steve Lawrence, the father of the singer David Lawrence and husband to the late great Eydie Gormé.
The Sabor a Mi music video uses medium-light images that beautifully compliment the song’s lyrics, and even include a brief tribute to Lawrence’s mother, Gormé, who made the song famous.
Hurtado mentioned that the Sabor a Mi project was something that interested him from the first day he met Lawrence, not only because of the importance of the tribute to Gormé, but also because Gormé’s boleros represent a significant artistic connection between different generations and cultures.
For more information on Carlos Hurtado, or to view some of his films visit: http://carloshurtadofilms.com/