Today and throughout the week, the society that brings together authors and librettists will honour numerous personalities. Clara Zappetini and Luisa Irene Ickowicz will receive the Grand Prize of Honour.
Clara Zappetini, a TV and film legend, will receive the Honorary Award along with Luisa Irene Ickowicz
Typically, September 11th is the day when Argentores The organization awards prizes to the best of the previous year’s authorial production, in the fields of theatre, radio, film, television and new technologies, and also a series of special distinctions to programmes and organisations of particular merit and above all to prominent figures and members of the organisation for half a century. Today is Author’s Day. But there are so many honourees that the prizes are now being awarded throughout this week at various events, always in the traditional Argentores hall.
This year, the Grand Prix of Honor goes to two esteemed women from the audiovisual world: Clara Zappetini, author and producer of film and television, and Luisa Irene Ickowicza film and television scriptwriter and a playwright. Both have also had a long and prestigious career as university professors.
The first has been sowing since 1980, with titles such as “Buenos Aires, third foundation”, “Among the Matacos”the series “Stories with applause”, “Julio Bocca. 25 years”, “The other land” and dozens of cultural productions, as well as collaborations with The Luthiers, Antonio Gasalla and other creators.
Ickowicz, For her part, she entered the cinema in 1974, becoming a film and television scriptwriter, creative in advertising films, playwright and institutional writer, and promoter of spaces for women. Some titles: “De frente march”, “Goddesses in the air”, “Sketches around Chekhov”, “Lights and shadows”, “Spoils of war”, “City of the sun”as well as abundant adaptations for “High comedy” and other programs.
Other awards
For their ongoing commitment to Argentores, special awards are given to Juan Jose Campanella and Aptra, and another to Osvaldo Dragun (in memoriam) for their legacy and creative height. On celebrating 50 years as partners, the surviving members of Les Luthiers, Carlos Lopez Puccio, Carlos Nunez Cortez and Jorge Maronnathe same as Clara Bitman, Laura Escalada, Ismael Hase, Jorge Maestro, Claudio Gaston Segovia and Deborah Marta SimcovichThe Federal Prize goes to three promoters of the “Message to the population” of National Radio: The project was launched in 1998 and is currently under construction.
They are also distinguished Jorge Dubatti, Pacho O’Donnell, Helena Tritek, Rony Keselman, Mauricio Wainrot, Nora Lafón and the venerable historian Cora Roca. Special paragraph, the distinction in memoriam for Alicia Petti for his remembered column of “X-rays” (and the book “100 years of radio”) and Santiago Bilinkis for his contribution to the knowledge of new technologies.
Then, highlighted in their various disciplines throughout the 2023 season, there are almost 50 personalities, including Hernán Lewkowicz (“Everything I Name Disappears”), José Ignacio Serralunga (“A Sea of Mourning: Women of Malvinas”), María Laura Alemán (“Unnecessary Nation”), Costa (“Costa the Accountant”), Paola Lavin (radio version of “Juancito de la Ribera”), Julián Kartún (“Caro Pardíaco”), Diego Skliar (“The Silence of the Eyes”), Laura Citarella and Laura Paredes (script for “Trenque Lauquen”), Ana Inés Berard (the documentary “Ahora Alfonsín”), the many scriptwriters of “Buenos Muchachos” and “El grito de las Mariposas”It is understandable that, instead of a single day, the presentation of so many awards takes almost a week.
Source: Ambito
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