'The Bride' and 'Truman', top Spanish contenders for the 2016 Platinum nominations

The 3rd edition of the Platino Ibero-American Cinema Awards will take place on July 24 in Punta del Este (Uruguay).

On this occasion, around twenty films aspire to the final nominations of the different categories of the III edition of the Platino Ibero-American Cinema Awards.

The bride, de Paula Ortiz y Truman, by Cesc Gay, both with five candidates, are the top Spanish contenders for the final nominations that will be made public on May 26.

Elena Anaya, by La memoria del agua; Inma Cuesta, for The bride; Javier Cámara, for Truman; Luis Tosar, for The unknown; Natalia de Molina, by Roof and food; Penelope Cruz, by Ma Ma; Ricardo Darín, for Truman; and Yordanka Ariosa, for Him King of Havanaa, are the performers of Spanish feature films who are eligible to be nominated.

Productions also continue in the running New girls 24 hours, de Mabel Lozano; and Dreams of salt, by Alfredo Navarro in the Best Documentary Feature category. catch the flag, de Enrique Gato; Amila's secret, by Gorka Vázquez; Peaceful night? – Holy night! , by Juan Galiñanes; After that, from Sam; y Yoko and her friends, by Juanjo Elordi and Rishat Gilmetdinov; They continue their competition in the category of Best Animated Feature Film. in exchange for nothing, by Daniel Guzmán and The unknown, by Dani de la Torre, maintain their options for Platinum Camilo Vives for Best Ibero-American Fiction First Feature.

The Executive Committee of the Awards has participated in this phase of the awards with the advice of prominent personalities from Ibero-American culture, industry and film institutions. The first preselection, announced at the last International Film Festival in Guadalajara, from which 158 productions came out, was attended by 826 films from Latin America, Spain and Portugal released in 2015.

Among the feature films that continue to compete for awards are titles that have won at the most prestigious festivals of the seventh art. He snake hug, by Ciro Guerra, prior to its Oscar nomination, triumphed in Mar del Plata, Montreal and Cannes, among other shows. The Côte d'Azur event was also conducive to The Earth and the shadow, by César Acevedo or to Paulina, by Santiago Miter.

Also the different juries of the sections of the Berlin, Venice and San Sebastián Festival praised titles such as The clan, by Pablo Trapero; The club, by Pablo Larraín, What time does she return?, by Anna Muylaert and Truman, by Cesc Gay.

All these productions continue on their way towards the III Platinum award ceremony, which will be held on July 24 in Punta del Este (Uruguay) and will be hosted by the Spanish actor, director, screenwriter and producer Santiago Segura and by the Uruguayan actress, singer and composer Natalia Oreiro.

The TNT television network will broadcast the gala live throughout Latin America. Martín Crespo, programming director of TNT, expressed the
commitment of the network to Ibero-American cinema and, especially, to these awards whose presentation was already broadcast by TNT in 2015. Crespo also announced that in this edition there will be special coverage given the prospects that exist after the successful second ceremony held last year in Marbella.

Promoted by the Audiovisual Producers' Rights Management Entity (EGEDA) with the Ibero-American Federation of Cinematographic and Audiovisual Producers (FIPCA), the PLATINO Ibero-American Cinema Awards have become in just two editions the most important global event for the promotion and support of the film industry in the Spanish-speaking countries of the American continent as well as Brazil, Portugal, Andorra and Spain.

The Platino are the first film awards that encompass the entire Ibero-American audiovisual industry made up of 23 countries united in a common project.