'Champions', 'Carmen and Lola', 'Between two waters' and 'The Kingdom', finalists of the Awards Forqué

The award has a financial prize of 30,000 euros The finalists for this 23rd edition have been selected from among a total of 106 feature films of fiction an

'Champions', 'Carmen and Lola', 'Between two waters' and 'The Kingdom', finalists of the Awards Forqué

The award has a financial prize of 30,000 euros

The finalists for this 23rd edition have been selected from among a total of 106 feature films of fiction and animation, 76 documentary films and 48 short films

The films Champions, Javier Fesser, Carmen and Lola, Arantxa Echevarría, Between two waters, Isaki Lacuesta and The Kingdom of Rordigo Sorogoyen, will be the finalists of the Awards Forqué award in the category of best fiction feature film/animation in its 24th edition.

This award is endowed with a prize money of 30,000 euros. So has announced the organization of these awards, granted by the Spanish producers of the EGEDA and will be presented at a gala on the 12th of January in Zaragoza, in a ceremony held in Madrid, in which have also been given to know the nominees in other categories.

So, in the category of best performance male nominated Antonio de la Torre, for The Kingdom, and Javier Bardem, All know, Javier Gutierrez, for Champions and José Coronado for Your son.

The Prize Forqué award for best female performer will choose Alexandra Jiménez, for The distances, Barbara Lennie by Petra, Eva Llorach, by Whom he will sing and Penelope Cruz for All we know.

The prizes for best performance voted by the specialist press are endowed by the AISGE Foundation with 3,000 euros to each winner.

The president of EGEDA, Enrique Cerezo, has claimed the importance of promoting the Spanish film "across all the possible platforms present and future", in addition to remembering the "untiring struggle for the protection of rights of creators".

Cherry has pointed out that in the previous edition of the return of advertising image for sponsors, doubled the numbers and the economic impact of the gala exceeded 12 million euros.

Other nominees for the Award for the Best Documentary Film, endowed with 6,000 euros, counts among his finalists with Notes for a film of robberies, Elijah Leon Siminian; Shrimp: Flamenco and the Revolution, Alexis Morante; Digging up the Sad Hill, Guillermo de Oliveira and The silence of others, of Robert Bahar, Almudena Carracedo.

The following three works will compete for the award, endowed with 3,000 euros, for the Best Short film: 9 steps, Marisa Crespo and Moisés Romera; Pig, Carlota Pereda and Matria, Alvaro Gago.

in Addition, three films aspire to achieve the Prize to the Cinema and Education in Values, which in this case does not count with economic endowment: Champions, Javier Fesser; Carmen and Lola, Arantxa Echevarría and disease Sunday, Ramon Salazar.

In this edition have participated in 106 feature films of fiction and animation, 76 documentary films and 48 short films. From here have come out the other finalists, some of them won awards at festivals like Berlin, Venice, San Sebastian, Mar del Plata, Malaga, Sitges, Huelva or Seminci in a year in which Spanish cinema aspires to overcome for the fifth consecutive time the 100 million collection at the box office domestic.

'Rome', among the favorites for best Latin american film

In regard to the prize is endowed with 6,000 euros to the Best Latin american Film, the finalists are The Heirs of Marcelo Martinessi (Paraguay, Germany, Uruguay, Brazil, France, Norway); The night of 12 years, by Álvaro Brechner (Spain, Uruguay, France, Argentina); Rome, Alfonso Cuarón (Mexico) and Sergio & Sergey, Ernesto Daranas (Cuba, Spain).

These movies from Latin America will compete equally, along with the rest of the works of the twenty-three countries of Latin america, in the sixth edition of the Awards ' Platinum Ibero-american Film.

The winners will be known at a gala, broadcast by The 1 TVE, which will result in the opening of the season of film awards in Spain and is held in the Palacio de Congresos of Zaragoza on Saturday, 12 January, 2019.

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Date Of Update: 06 December 2018, 08:01