The SGAE Foundation announces the XI SGAE Script Award for Feature Film Julio Alejandro

Participants will be able to send their work from today, Monday, April 28 until July 11,

The SGAE Foundation announces the 11th edition of the SGAE Julio Alejandro Feature Film Screenplay Award. 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, Monday, April 28, and will end on July 11.

The bases are available on the SGAE Foundation website. A jury, appointed by the entity, made up of authors and professionals in the film industry, will select the three finalists who will compete for a single prize worth 25,000 euros. The two non-awarded finalists will receive 3,000 euros for their designation as such. The winner will be announced at the closing ceremony of the next edition of the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival next November.

The SGAE Julio Alejandro Screenplay Award 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, Simón del Desierto or Tristana. The SGAE Foundation created this award to enhance the quality of creation by 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 ten previous editions, many winning scripts have been released in cinemas such as When horses learned to cry, with which the Mexican Jano Mendoza won the VIII SGAE Julio Alejandro Screenplay Award for Feature Film; 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. In the last call he was the winner Bad harvest, by Pablo and Daniel Remón.