EGEDA will award its Gold Medal to Santiago Segura

The award recognizes his work as a producer where, among other titles, the popular 'Torrente' saga stands out.

The Spanish actor, director, screenwriter and producer Santiago Segura will be awarded the EGEDA Gold Medal.

The recognition, which will be awarded on January 11 during the gala of the XXI José María Forqué Film Award, has gone this time to one of the pillars of the Spanish film industry inside and outside our borders. In his career, Segura has nearly a hundred works that have established him before the public and critics.

Winner of three Goya awards, two as director and one as actor, his work as a producer highlights the popular saga Torrent. Four of the five films of this mass phenomenon are produced by his company Amiguetes but his work does not stop there. Other titles like The Moscow Gold, A Zombie, The Amazing World of Borjamari and Pocholo, Serious Killer, The Dancing Machine, Unresolved Sexual Tension o Three-60 They have reached the big screen thanks to their commendable work.

Born in Madrid in 1965, Segura began his professional career in the seventh art by filming short films, but his role in The Day of the Beast by Álex de la Iglesia which would catapult him as one of the icons of Spanish cinema. Twenty years after this great success, Santiago's career remains at its peak, having worked under the orders of such notable directors as Guillermo del Toro, Fernando Trueba and Luis García Berlanga.

His international projection has led him to participate in large productions such as Asterix at the Olympic Games o Hellboy and after conquering the public again last year with the fifth installment of Torrente, this multifaceted artist does not rest. recently filmed Wild Oats alongside stars of the stature of Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Lange and Demi Moore, and is already preparing her participation in The Queen of Spain, continuation of the multi-award-winning The apple of your eye.

As a director he has a dozen titles between shorts and feature films, being in 1998 when he launched Torrente, the foolish arm of the law that in addition to breaking box office records and becoming the most profitable franchise in the history of national cinema, the film would win two Goya awards, one for him as best new director and another for the remembered Tony Leblanc as best supporting actor.

The Gold Medal, awarded by the Board of Directors of EGEDA, aims to reward the career and work of a producer, having recognized in previous editions such important names as Pedro Masó, Elías Querejeta, Luis Méndez, Andrés Vicente Gómez, Eduardo Ducay, José Luis Borau, José Antonio Sáenz de Vicuña, Julio Fernández, Luis Megino, Fernando Trueba, Gerardo Herrero, Agustín Almodovar or the RTVE Corporation.

The presentation of this award, along with the awards for best film, best actor and actress, best documentary feature film, best Latin American feature film, award for cinema and education in values ​​and best short film, will be held at a gala that will take place at the Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid (Campo de las Unidas), broadcast by TVE's La 1 and which opens the awards season in Spain.