It won the 2007 Silver Bear in Berlin's International Short Film Competition.
The film was allowed to travel to the recent International Berlin Festival, where it was awarded four prizes, including a special Silver Bear.
When Ismael Rodriguez asked Pedro's mother to keep the Silver Bear, she refused to accept it.
The 22-inch-wide Snow Scoop from Silver Bear has long been popular in northern Michigan, where the snowfall averages more than 200 inches a year.
This went on to win the Silver Bear at 58th Berlin International Film Festival 2008.
In 2008 he published his novel The Silver Bear about the young contract killer Columbus.
The film was awarded the Silver Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.
He also played a banker in Silver Bears.
His second novel, the The Silver Bears (1974) was turned into a 1978 movie of the same name, starring Michael Caine.
Around twenty films compete for the awards called the Golden and Silver Bears.
