The Author Foundation announces the 10th SGAE Script Award for Feature Film 'Julio Alejandro'

The contest is open to all SGAE member authors of any nationality, residing in Spain or Latin America.

The Author Foundation of the SGAE announces the 10th edition of the SGAE Screenplay Award for Feature Film 'Julio Alejandro'. The contest is open to all SGAE member authors of any nationality, residing in Spain or Latin America. The deadline for submitting original texts, which can be written in any of the official languages ​​of the Spanish State, opens today, Thursday, May 30, and will end on July 20.

The bases are available on the Fundación Autor website. A jury, appointed by the entity, made up of authors and audiovisual professionals, will select the three finalists who will compete for a single prize worth 25,000 euros. The winner will be announced at a public event during the next edition of the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival (November 17 to 23, 2013).

The SGAE Screenplay Award for Feature Film 'Julio Alejandro' is, in addition to a promotional platform for young film talents, a tribute to the memory of the screenwriter and playwright from Huesca Julio Alejandro (1906-1995), a close collaborator of Luis Buñuel. In fact, he worked alongside the Teruel genius on some of his most emblematic titles, such as Viridiana, Nazarín, Simon of the desert o Tristana. The Author Foundation of the SGAE created this award to enhance the quality of the creation of authors in the audiovisual sector and encourage the launch of film projects based on the development of scripts.

Screenplays brought to the big screen

Throughout the nine previous editions, many winning scripts have been released in cinemas. Among the most recent are When horses learned to cry, with which the Mexican Jano Mendoza won the VIII SGAE Screenplay Award for Feature Film 'Julio Alejandro'; We all have a plan, by Ana Piterbarg, who has taken the script with which she won in the V edition to the cinema, and orange honey, by Remedios Crespo -VI SGAE Award-, directed by Imanol Uribe.