Receive Trueba Film Award in Spain – El Universal

Freedom, perfectionism and passion are the principles that have guided the career of Fernando Trueba (Madrid, 1955), distinguished today in Spain with the National Film Award.

“At a time when each There is increasing uniformity and films made from dictation, I tried to make the film I had to do. The art should be an individual adventure and let him life, “he said.

The jury argued that it is a “recognition of his undeniable experience as director, producer and screenwriter, in addition to his work in defense of the cinematographic profession since the beginning of his career as founder of the magazine Casablanca and critic in the country and the Leisure Guide.”

also he appreciated his work as president of the Film Academy, in the late eighties, and the international recognition that secured the Spanish cinema thanks to the successes of his films, especially the winner Oscar “Belle Epoque” and nominated “Chico & amp; Rita “.

Evidence that Trueba has always done what he wanted is the diversity of titles that has lighting, from romantic comedies like” Be unfaithful and do not look to whom “a documentary in which he has given sole rein to his passion for Latin jazz as “Calle 54″

Exercise risky as “Twisted Obsession” animated films such as “Chico & Dev. Rita “and statements that free love and vocational art as” The Artist and the Model “.
The prizes are something else, and to some extent, a nuisance when it comes to stand up and talk about one same. “Makes me want to go to Soria walk,” said the filmmaker Efe around the news.

In fact was walking at the time the ruling was announced and, as is mobile, did not find out until we returned home, when he was on every cover.

“I never dreamed of awards but to make films that I liked as a kid, so it’s at we fight, “he said soon after.

” The awards are road accidents and they are welcome if they are for the better. But what matters is to make a good movie, the best you can, and do it freely and independently, that no one will check the address “he said.

Over the more than three decades of profession that builds Fernando Trueba, Spanish cinema has given many tumbles, but he says only one thing has taken his dream.

“I’m not a religious person, but the one thing we always have He prayed is not to lose the passion for cinema, to do films for money or just to stay active, but for deeper reasons, because there is a story that has love and you want to do reality. “

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