The Spanish Film Academy will award a Gold Medal to Cecilia Roth

The Spanish Film Academy will award a Gold Medal to Cecilia Roth

Roth participated in numerous Spanish productions, from “Rapture” (1979), from Ivan Zuluetauntil the recent “Pain and Glory” (2019), from Pedro Almodovar. The actress also won two Goya Awards for Best Leading Actress for “Martin (Hache)” (1997), of Adolfo AristarainY “Everything about my mother” (1999), by Almodóvar, with whom he has worked eight times since his first film, “Pepi, Luci Boom and other girls of the lot” (1980).

For his part, Jorge Perugorría is one of the best-known figures in Cuban cinema, mainly for his work in the film by Juan Carlos Tabío and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, “Fresa y chocolate” (1993)’, the first feature film from that country in be nominated for an Oscar.

Perugorría was linked to Spanish cinema through films such as “A Private Matter” (1997), by Javier Fernández; “Things I left in Havana” (1998), by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón; and “When you return to my side” (1999), by Gracia Querejeta, among other productions.

According to the Spanish Academy, among the Latin Americans who were part of inescapable films of Spanish cinema are Ricardo Darín, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Leticia Brédice, Óscar Martínez, the Alterios (Héctor, Ernesto and María), Leonardo Sbaraglia, Darío Grandinetti, Norma Aleandro, Salma Hayek and Graciela Borges, among many others.

Source: Ambito

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