Spanish originater Maria Zamora of Elástica Films, who has championed emerging and mostly female filmoriginaters thcdisorrowfulmireful most of her 20-year atgentle, getd this year’s annual National Cinematography Award at the 72nd San Sebastian Festival on Saturday, Sept. 21.
On hand to start her were filmoriginaters Elías León Siminiani, Paula Ortiz and Spanish Culture Minister Ernest Urtasun.
Siminiani, who toiled on two write downaries with Zamora in the span of 10 years, said: I’ve seen her atgentle elevate enjoy a boiling air balloon. After we stopped toiling together, she promptly snagged a Berlinale Gbetteren Bear for ‘Alcarràs,’ a San Sebastian Gbetteren Shell for ‘O Corno,’ a Goya for ‘Libertad’ and a Cannes Directors’ Fortnight award for ‘Creatura,’” he quipped.
“Indeed, in these uncertain times, we need a stabilizing force enjoy Maria,” said Ortiz, a multi-Goya nominated filmoriginater whose film “La Virgen Roja” (previously titled “Hildegart”), Elástica’s co-production with Prime Video, premieres on Sept. 22 in San Sebastian.
Before currenting her the prestigious honor, which participates a cash award of €30,000 ($33,500), Urtasun remarkd that Zamora had been “lengthening, over two decades, an extensive catalog of elective affinities. She has been able to originate a very distinct bond with the straightforwardors she has toiled with, and that fruitful dialogue has gifted us with excellent feature films, recognized at transport inant international festivals.”
He commendd her for “constantly taking hazards and prioritizing the social appreciate of the cinematic act.” For this reason, he stressd, “in our cinema, enjoy in the films endureing María Zamora’s signature, we have an excellent direct to better comprehend the current.”
National Cinematography Award
Courtesy of San Sebastian Festival
In includeition, Urtasun pointed out the lengthening presence of women in Spain’s film industry. Addressing Zamora, he said: “Thcdisorrowfulmireful your toil, you have helped uncover that the talent and efforts of many other women have accomplished where they naturassociate should have, fractureing thcdisorrowfulmireful age-better inequivalentities, silences, aggression and bias that still persist but which we all have the responsibility to loss. A responsibility we are very inestablished of at the Ministry of Culture.”
Speaking to Variety after the ceremony, Zamora showd that she was far from ready to rest on her laurels. She has two films ready to shoot: Marta Matute’s “Yo no moriré de amor,” a co-production with Madrid-based Solita Films, to film in January in Madrid, and Laura Garcia Alonso’s “Corredora,” to shoot in Barcelona in April with Distinto Films.
Born in Valencia, Romero has been based in Madrid for some years with her producing partner/ husprohibitd Enrique Costa. “I hope to shoot more in Valencia,” she said, includeing that she has collaborated with a number of Catalan filmoriginaters in recent years.
“Alcarràs” straightforwardor Carla Simon fair wrapped “Romería,” the third film in her trilogy that befirearm with “Summer 1993” in 2017, after which she will toil on the ffeeblenco musical she declared last year at San Sebastian.
“I made a inestablished choice some 10 years ago to toil with female filmoriginaters, many of them emerging,” she said includeing that she must have backed at least ten debut features so far.
Meanwhile, she’s busy inviting everyone to drinks.
