Schoolgirls strikes gold with four Goya Awards
Pilar Palomero (on screen) accepts the Goya for Best New Director
It was a hybrid event (a format all-too familiar from last year’s festival season) that set the scene for a hotly anticipated edition of the Goya Awards on Saturday 6 March, adjudicated by the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.While the presenters held court over an empty Malaga auditorium, nominees dialled in from home via video link. As we all expected in light of its triumph at the Forqué (see our report here) and Forez Awards (here), the night belonged to
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In the animated feature category, the sole nominee is
Turu, the Wacky Hen (
La gallina Turuleca) a shoo-in if ever we saw one. Inspired by a famous song in the Latin world, the cg family film tells the story of a hen who befriends an old woman and discovers she can speak human language. It is directed by Victor Monigote and Eduardo Gondell; the producers are Spain’s Tandem Films, Gloriamundi Producciones, and A Fonsagrada Producions, and Argentina’s Pampa Films and Sono Film.
Many past winners in this category have had U.S. releases, among them
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children, Another Day of Life, and