The renowned director of photography Juan Mariné has died at 104 in Madrid. His mortal remains will be veiled at the M30 tank in Madrid on Tuesday, February 18, starting at 3:00 p.m., as reported by the Film Academythe same institution as last year, in 2024, granted him the Honor Goya for “a lifetime dedicated to cinema.”
It was the third Goya of Honor that the Academy granted to a photography director, after which José Aguayo was delivered in the first edition of the Awards, in 1987, and that of Federico Larraya in 1996.
According to the Film Academyon its official website, Mariné, who was born in Barcelona in 1920, He entered the world of cinema with only 13 years “When he reached the filming of the eighth commandment to deliver new cameras from France that only he knew how to work, and in his last years of life, ninety later, he frequently went to ECAM to restore films.”
At the end of the Civil War, as promised, he began his life professionally to life to cinema and has done so. Since then until 1990, Mariné has participated in more than 150 productions (It was common in the productions of Del Amo, Pedro Lazaga, José María Forqué, or Pedro Masó) and also highlighted as an inventor of new photographic techniques, such as the Mariné format. Since 1990, he dedicated himself fully to Film restorationmanaging to rescue many films that were lost.
Throughout his extensive life, Mariné has been recognized with different awards. Apart from the Goya de Honor in 2024, the National Prize for Photography, the Academy’s Gold Medal, the Honor of Honor of the Seminci de Valladolid, the Gold Medal of the Fine Arts or Fine Arts or the Juan de la Cierva Research Award.
Besides, His figure has been honored On many occasions and his figure and work, as reported by the Cinema Academy, they have also made him the object of several documentaries such as’ Juan Mariné. A century of cinema ‘,’ Juan Mariné: the adventure of making cinema ‘or’ the submarine ‘.
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Source: Lasexta
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