Basque cinema wants to celebrate a great year in Barcelona today
Basque film producers and professionals will be able to win the Goya tonight at the Spanish Film Academy gala, with 47 nominations in 23 of 28 categories.
The city of Barcelona will receive today, Saturday, the evening of the 40th edition of the awards of the Goya Spanish Film Academy, in which professionals and productions of Basque cinema will be present, with a total of 47 nominations, attentive to the gala presented by actor Luis Tosar and actor and musician Rigoberta Bandini.
The Basque representatives will probably be restless on their benches. The two winners already announced will be more relaxed. American actress Susan Sarandon will receive the International Goya and filmmaker and writer Gonzalo Suárez will receive the Honorary Goya.
For the rest, it will be represented in 23 of the 28 Basque film awards.
The film by Los Domingos Alauda Ruiz de Azua has 13 nominations, more than any other film, including the best film, direction and screenplay. The winner of the Golden Shell of the San Sebastian Festival is also among the finalists in five of the six interpretive sections: best actress (Patricia Lopez Arnaiz), best actor (Miguel Garcés), best supporting actress (Nagore Aranburu), best supporting actor (Juan Minujín).
The actors of the Basque film Maspalomas are also on everyone's lips, speaking of the favorites for the awards; the protagonist Jose Ramon Soroiz received the Silver Maskorra for the best performance at the San Sebastian Film Festival, and the Goya would be another confirmation for the beautiful work of the legorretarra in the skin of Bixente.
The Basque Country is an increasingly productive country for the audiovisual sector, thanks to its own talent, inter-institutional cooperation, the participation of EITB and tax incentives; proof of this is the nominations received by the major projects led by the Basque producers: The Tigers (with the participation of Kowalski Films and 7 nominations), Un fantasma en la batalla (production of the Basque producer Basoilarraren Filmak 4 nominations, including that of the protagonist Susana Abaitua), The Talento (work of the Basque producer K2000), The The Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the General of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director of the Director ofThe night, Paul Urkijo's third feature film, is nominated in three sections (best costume design, best makeup and hairdressing and best special effects), Balearic Ion de Sosa's work as best novel director, Decorado Uniko's film as best animation film and Zona wao as best documentary short film, four films that, like Maspalomas, have the participation of EITB.
Finally, the Spanish academy has also valued the work of Basque professionals in productions outside the Basque Country, such as that of actress Elena Irureta and sound technician Urko Garai in the film Sorda and that of sound technician Aitor Berenguer in the film El cautivo Alejandro Amenábar.
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