This Sunday night the Gala of the Gaudí Awards of the
Acadèmia del Cinema Català
is celebrated
in its XIII edition in Barcelona.
The meeting was delayed in January, when it is traditionally held, as the organizers wanted to hold it "as face-to-face as possible."
The feature film
La Vampira de Barcelona
, directed by
Lluís Danés,
has triumphed by winning in the Best Film category.
Upon receiving the award, one of its producers,
Raimon Masllorens
, has joined the request of the president of the Acadèmia del Cinema Català,
Isona Passola
, to increase aid for Catalan productions, and has trusted that it will do so next Govern.
Although he has expressed his happiness for the award, he has regretted that "there are no partners" outside of Catalonia to produce Catalan-speaking films, since
La Vampira de Barcelona
has not been nominated in other Spanish awards.
The film
Las Chicas
, directed and written by
Pilar Palomero
, has won the Gaudí award for Best Film in a non-Catalan language, one of the 13 nominations it had received in this edition.
Candela Peña collecting the award for best leading actress PHOTO: MARTA PÉREZ / EFE
The film competed with
Adú
, by
Salvador Calvo
, La
Boda
de Rosa, by
Iciar Bollain
, and
Sentimental
, by Cesc Gay.
First film by Aragonese Pilar Palomero, the film, which was already the great winner of the last Goya awards, takes place in
Spain
in 1992, where, while the celebrations of the Olympics in
Barcelona
and the Seville Expo are being experienced, the Life continues in a school of nuns in Zaragoza, where Brisa will arrive, who will push Celia towards a new stage in her life.
The producer Valerie Delpierre was grateful to be able to receive "this award at home" and share it with the whole team, present in the Forum auditorium.
In his opinion, all of them were nominated for their talent, while he has not forgotten the support of different televisions for the film.
Coruña actor
Mario Casas
has won the Gaudí award for best male lead for his performance in the film
You will not kill
, by
David Victori
.
Casas competed in this section with
Àlex Brendemühl
(
L'ofrena
),
David Verdaguer
(
One for all
) and
Javier Cámara
, for their performance in
Sentimental
.
The actress
Candela Peña
has won the Gaudí Award for Best Female Lead for the film
Rosa's wedding
.
She was one of the artists who attended the ceremony in person and dedicated the award to all those women who, like the character she embodies in the film, "take charge of their own life."
"Long live freedom of expression and long live Catalan cinema!".
This is how Isona Passola, president of the Acadèmia del Cinema Català, has made her last speech at the Gaudí family as president.
"There is no State that calls itself fair that does not defend the freedom to think and create: Long live freedom of expression, Catalan cinema and cinema in Catalan!", He defended.
Passola has criticized that currently there are politicians and "artists reprisal for creating in freedom and for making poems and songs."
Still marked by the pandemic, the gala has a capacity reduced to 30%.
The awards for best supporting actor have been given to
Alberto San Juan
for
Sentimental
, directed by
Cesc Gay
, and best supporting actress to
Verónica Echegui
for
L'Ofrena
, directed by
Ventura Durall
.
San Juan competed in this category with
Abdel Aziz El Mountassir
(
The illegal woman
), Ernesto Alterio ("I love you, imbecile") and Francesc Orella ("The vampire of Barcelona")
The actor, who in the film plays the husband of one of the two couples involved in the story, already won the Goya award for best supporting actor two weeks ago for this same role.
The Gaudí Award for Best European Film went to
Sorry We Missed You
, a French national and directed by Ken Loach, who was unable to attend the awards ceremony in person this Sunday, and the Audience Award went to
Les dues nits d'ahir
, directed by Pau Cruanyes and Gerard Vidal.
Ni oblit ni perdó
has won the Gaudí for Best Short Film, and the Best Documentary award has gone to
My Mexican Bretzel
, by
Núria Giménez Lorang
.
The film
La mort de Guillem
, directed by
Carlos Marques-Marcet
, has been the winner of the section for best television film.
Written by
Roger Danès
and
Alfred Pérez-Fargas
, it focuses on the 1993 assassination of the young Valencian anti-fascist
Guillem Agulló
at the hands of a far-right group.
When collecting the award, producer Marc Roma thanked the co-producers who were in the film, as well as the "verkamistas" who made it possible.
Rome, which ended with a resounding "they will not pass, neither now nor ever", has stressed that the film is as much about the Agulló family as it is about them, and that it has been a "privilege to recover Guillem's memory".
The fashion behind the awards
This edition of the Gaudí Awards has managed to get some international fashion brands, such as Dior or Hugo Boss, to sign up for the gala, in which Catalan and Spanish clothing firms nevertheless predominate.
Tonight, various actresses, actors and members of the Catalan Film Academy are wearing models created by the Catalan firms Tween, men's clothing, Txell Miras and Inku Atelier.
Others, such as
Javier Cámara
, who was opting for the lead actor award for his work in
Sentimental
, has come with a Pedro del Hierro model.
Actress
Bruna Cusí
wore Dior
, nominated as a supporting actress in
La vampira de Barcelona
, directed by
Lluís Danés
.
The members of the Board of the
Isona Passola
Academy
, president,
Judit Colell
and
Maria Molins
wore dresses by Inku Atelier, the Parisian firm Zadig & Voltaire and the Alicia Rueda brand, from Bilbao.
The director of
The Girls
,
Pilar Palomero
, has chosen a sewing piece by the Galician designer María Barros and
Andrea Fandos
, the leading actress of the same film, has chosen
Silvia Fernández's
atelier
,
from
Zaragoza
.
Carme Elias receives the Gaudí d'Honor Award regretting that there are prisoners for 1-O
The actress Carme Elias has received the Gaudí d'Honor Award for her entire artistic career and has criticized in her speech that they have been imprisoned for the independence process --without explicitly alluding to it--, which has raised applause from the audience of the gala .
"I also want to have a thought for people unjustly imprisoned for defending an ideal that can be shared or not but that must be able to be expressed freely in a civilized society like ours," he said on stage.
The actress has also defended that each seat of spectators is full this year, marked by the impact of Covid-19, "it has been a gesture of fidelity to art and culture."
In his speech, Elias also addressed the professionals he has worked with throughout his career, who have "accompanied and supported him in this wonderful profession, that of an actress."
He has vindicated the interpretation as a tool that gives him security and courage: "I trust that, if I get lost, I will find the goal."
Before the actress
Vicky Peña presented
him with the Gaudí d'Honor - Miquel Porter 2021 Award, a video was shown with some of the most outstanding cinematographic moments of Elias' career.
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