'Truman' begins his Goya career by shining at the Forqué Awards

Cesc Gay's film convinced the producers as it won the Forqué for best Spanish feature film and best actor for the role of Ricardo Darín.

The Audiovisual Producers' Rights Management Entity (EGEDA) inaugurated the film awards season last night with the Forqué award ceremony. The 21st edition of these awards, whose name honors the producer José María Forqué, brought together numerous film professionals at the Municipal Congress Palace of Madrid in an entertaining gala presented by José Corbacho and Macarena García.

Cesc Gay's film, Truman, convinced the producers as it won the Forqué for best Spanish feature film and best actor for the role of Ricardo Darín, who finally beat Javier Cámara and Guillermo Francella (The clan), Luis Tosar (The unknown) and Pedro Casablanc (B). In this way, Truman begins his career towards the Goya that will take place on February 6 in awards in which he will compete face to face with The bride, which was not eligible for these Forqué since this edition only included films whose release was prior to December 1st. include productions

Natalia de Molina excitedly collected the award for best female performance for her role as a hopeless mother in Roof and food, prevailing over established actresses of the stature of Penélope Cruz (Ma ma), Juliette Binoche (Nobody wants the night), Irene Escolar (An autumn in Berlin) and Nora Navas (The adoption).

The Forqué for Best Documentary was for 2014, Born in Gaza, by Hénan Zin while the Best Latin American Film went to Argentina The club, by Pablo Larraín. The runner, by José Luis Montesinos, has managed to win the Forqué Award for Best Short Film.

The animation tape catch the flag has won the Prize for Cinema and Education in Values, which is awarded jointly and for the first time this year by EGEDA and the Drug Addiction Aid Foundation (FAD).

The president of the entity, Enrique Cerezo, in his speech sent the different Administrations a "letter to the Three Wise Men" in which he asked "that cinema be a matter of State. We do not want subsidies, we want production and tax incentives, as in France."

“With the audiences we have achieved in recent years, we have done our homework, we deserve the Kings, this time they do not leave us coal,” he commented in the presence of the Minister of Culture, Education and Sports, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo and the president of the Community of Madrid, Cristina Cifuentes.

Santiago Segura, EGEDA Gold Medal

The audiovisual rights management entity has awarded its Gold Medal this year to the producer, director and actor Santiago Segura.

Santiago Segura, born in Madrid (1965) and graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid.

Segura began his career in 1989, when he wrote, directed and starred in the first of his shorts: Midnight Stories, which they would follow Eduardo (1990), Evilio y The gas collector only calls once (1992), Disturbed (1993), winner of the Goya Award in 1995 for Best Fiction Short Film and Evilio returns (The Purifier) (1994), sequel to the first.

Under the orders of his favorite directors, he has played a multitude of characters in around 20 feature films: Mutant Action, The Day of the Beast, Perdita Durango, Dead of Laughter, Two Much, The Apple of Your Eye, Everyone to Jail, Paris–Timbuktu, Masterpiece, Welcome Home…

In 1998 he wrote, directed, produced and starred in Torrente, the foolish arm of the law, becoming the highest-grossing film in Spanish cinema with 12,020,300 euros in revenue and 3 million viewers, then a record figure on the national scene. In addition, it received recognition from the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, obtaining two new Goya awards in 1999, one of them for Best New Director.

In 2001 he wrote, directed, produced and starred in his second feature film: Torrente 2: mission in Marbella, thus beginning a saga that continues to this day with great box office success.