The TV movie 'Concepción Arenal, the prison visitor', from TVE, a great winner at the Zoom Festival

The television film collected three awards: Best Television Film, Best Director and Young Jury Award. In addition, the legendary TVE program 'Un, dos, tres...responda otra vez' has received the Honorary Award 'TúEres la TV' at the festival that closed this weekend in Igualada.

The television movie Concepción Arenal, the prison visitor co-produced by TVE, last Saturday it received the awards for Best Film, Best Director and the Young Jury award at the tenth edition of the Zoom Festival held in Igualada (Barcelona). The legendary TVE contest has also been awarded One, two, three…answer again, which has won the Honorary Award 'You are the TV'. The Zoom Festival is an event that aims to promote and publicize audiovisual productions made in Europe.

The story of Concepción Arenal told for television has won two of the three awards from the Official Jury of the festival: Best Film for Television and Best Direction. Likewise, he has achieved the favor of the Young Jury who also awarded him their award.

Concepción Arenal, the prison visitor, co-produced by Televisión Española, Televisión de Galicia, Televisió de Catalunya and Canal Sur, is directed by Laura Mañá, also director of the TV movie Clara Campoamor, the forgotten woman. Blanca Portillo stars in this production, in the role of the Galician activist.

honorary award to One, two, three…answer again

Finally, the legendary TVE contest One, two, three…answer again, has received the 'You are the TV' award, an honorary award given each year by the festival in recognition of a program that has been legendary in the history of our television.

Created 40 years ago by 'Chicho' Ibáñez Serrador, the program began broadcasting in 1972 and remained on the air until 2004, always on La 1 on TVE. Kiko Legard, Mayra Gómez Kemp, Don Cicuta and his tightwads, the hostesses and many of the characters who animated the different phases of the contest, remain in the collective memory of our country.

The Zoom Festival, a European television film festival, is a competition dedicated to recognizing television films. It was born in 2003 with the aim of promoting and publicizing audiovisual production made in Europe, paying special attention to European television fiction feature films and Spanish-produced series and miniseries.

It is not the first time that TVE has been awarded at this festival. In the last edition, The angel of Budapest won the Best Film Award. For its part, Operation Check won the award for best miniseries and also The clowns on TV received the honorary award 'You are the TV'.

Also The murder of Carrero Blanco y Tarancón, the fifth commandment He received a special mention from the jury for his “careful way of treating the last times of Francoism.”