Director Pedro Almodovar has not hesitated to respond in the Goya awards 2024 to García-Gallardo (Vox) . The vice president of the Junta de Castilla y León He called the film producers “gentlemen”. He did so this Friday in controversial statements to confirm his attendance at this year’s ceremony. “The gentlemen are the ones who want to make a living by producing cinematographic works that no one sees later at the expense of millions and millions of euros that Spanish taxpayers pay with great effort,” said García-Gallardo.
The response from the filmmaker from La Mancha, without mentioning Gallardo’s name, occurred before delivering the Goya for Best Filmwhich finally went to ‘The Snow Society’.
“With the strength of heart that I feel, on a night of awards and demands, are you going to allow me to make a claimin favor of Spanish cinema,” he noted at the beginning of his speech. “A politician present in this room has spoken of us as gentlemen who collect subsidies and now one of these gentlemen is talking to you“, he continued.
Furthermore, Almodóvar also recalled that this leader has spoken about how in Spain “very bad films are made that interest no one.” “I’m going to tell this man the obvious and that is that The money that we filmmakers receive as an advance we more than return to the Statethrough taxes and social security, in addition to creating thousands of jobs,” he concluded. These words caused a standing ovation among those attending the ceremony.
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Source: Lasexta
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