The Board of Directors of the Platinum Awards for Ibero-American Cinema and Audiovisual announced the shortlisted productions from the 23 countries in each of the categories that will participate in their IX Edition, which will take place on Sunday, May 1, in person at the IFEMA Palacio Municipal in Madrid. The Ecuadorian films with the most preselections are Submersiblewith 6 candidates, and yellow glasseswith 3 presets.
After the complex season that Ibero-American audiovisual production faced during 2020, the industry has settled down in 2021, reaching more than 800 works premiered during the year in the first list of the IX Edition of the Platino Awards, adding fiction feature films , animation or documentary and fiction or documentary series, a figure that exceeds the 677 works produced the previous year. Of these 812 premiered works, a total of 206 have been shortlisted to be among the 20 candidates for nomination by category, a list that will be announced shortly.
From the list of 20 nominations per category, which will be made public at an upcoming face-to-face event, the four finalists for each of the 22 categories will be selected. Finally, The winners will be announced on Sunday, May 1. at the grand gala to be held in Madrid, the same venue that hosted this event last year, in which the big winners were the Colombian film The oblivion that we will be and the Spanish series Homeland.
Thus, the Platino Awards will once again recognize the best of the Ibero-American audiovisual industry, which has once again demonstrated the competitiveness of the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking sector. And it is that, of the 21 countries that have pre-candidacies for the awards in the cinematographic section, the difference in the number of pre-selections is minimal: Spain leads the list with 9%, followed by Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Portugal and Uruguay, all of them with 6%.. A similar case occurs in series nominations: Mexico dominates the productions presented with 16%, followed by Spain (14%), Argentina and Chile (10%).
In the category for Best Ibero-American Fiction Film, Ecuador will aspire to nomination with the productions yellow glassesby Ivan Mora, and Submersibleby Alfredo Leon. In addition, both filmmakers have been shortlisted to be finalists in the section to best direction.
Carlos Valencia by Submersible has been shortlisted in the category of Best Male Performance. For her part, she will opt for the nomination for Best Female Performance samantha caicedo for UIO: Take me for a walk of the Ecuadorian Micaela Rueda.
documentaries
In the section to Best Documentary Feature the shortlisted are Galapagos, paradise in loss by Gustavo Yanez, and The legend of Tayos of Galo Semblantes. To the award that recognizes the commitment of producers to new talents in the Ibero-American industry, the Platinum Award for Best Ibero-American First Feature, starts with options for nomination Samson by Pavel Quevedo Ullauri.
In the case of recognition Best screenplay, Daniela Granja Nuñez and Alfredo León will opt for the candidacy for the libretto of Submersible. The film is shortlisted in the categories for Best Editing Direction and Best Sound Direction. yellow glasses For his part, he will opt for the category of Best Direction of Photography.
Finally, Ecuador attends the Award for Cinema and Education in Values with the preselection of Galapagos, paradise in loss by Gustavo Yanez.
The Platino Awards for Ibero-American Cinema, promoted by EGEDA (Audiovisual Producers Rights Management Entity), with FIPCA (Ibero-American Federation of Cinematographic and Audiovisual Producers) and with the support of the Ibero-American Film Academies and Institutes, bring together great talents of the industries of 23 Ibero-American countriesextolling the most outstanding productions and creators of each year with twenty-two awards and a Platinum Honor Award.
They have been working since its first edition in 2014 on the dissemination of Ibero-American cinema, so that the successes achieved in the most prestigious festivals are also translated into excellent results in commercial theaters and that the cinema has the distribution it deserves.
Source: Eluniverso
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