The Catalan director Carla Simon has been awarded the National Cinematography Award of the year 2023, according to the official website of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, which annually grant this award, which in addition to recognition is endowed with 30,000 euros. This award comes to make up for his Goya gap with the film ‘Alcarrás’
According to the Ministry, the jury wanted to recognize the director and screenwriter Carla simon by:
“positioning Spanish cinema on the international scene by obtaining the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, one of the most prestigious in the world. This award was a milestone in the history of our cinema thanks to a film in which the naturalness and precision in the construction of stories and characters intelligently and rigorously combines realism and fiction with a fully topical look at social problems. In addition, it organically incorporates the diversity of languages that characterize and enrich our society and culture”.
Likewise, the jury has indicated that the director also represents a new generation of filmmakers that
“In a very short time they have managed to develop quality cinema that is committed to the medium itself and to society, reaching a global audience. Without a doubt, it is one of the benchmarks of the great moment that Spanish cinema is experiencing. At the same time, it has been able to promote that movie theaters have opened at a difficult time after the covid pandemic ”.
The jury was chaired by Beatriz Navas Valdés, general director of the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA). The award, which the Minister of Culture and Sports regularly awards within the framework of the San Sebastian Festival, recognized in its last edition Penelope Cruz, joining a long list of personalities from Spanish cinematography, among whom are José Sacristán, Isabel Coixet, Antonio Banderas or Fernando Trueba, among others.
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