Jonás Trueba, 'El Ojo Crítico' Award from RNE de Cine

The jury highlighted the “spirit of free, independent cinema, with a very personal style, and its commitment to its generational reality.”

The 2016 'El Ojo Crítico' Film Award has gone to Jonás Trueba. The jury recognized his “spirit of free, independent cinema with a very personal style.”

Jonás Trueba (Madrid, 1981) is a young film director, son of Fernando Trueba, whose last film, The Reconquest, participated by RTVE, has competed in the official section of the last San Sebastián Festival. As a director, he has signed three other feature films: The romantic exiles (2015), The deluded (2013) y All the songs talk about me (2010).

The jury attributes to him “the reconquest of a spirit of free, independent cinema, with a very personal style, his commitment to his generational reality and to the seventh art.”

The jury was composed of the president of FAPAE, Ramón Colom; the film director and screenwriter Alfonso Albacete; the actress, screenwriter and director Leticia Dolera; the actor, screenwriter and director, Fernando Guillén Cuervo; the actor Andrés Gertrúdix; Conxita Casanovas, film critic and director of ‘Va de cine’ on Ràdio 4; Yolanda Flores director of the Radio Nacional program 'De film'; Juan Carlos Morales, director of RNE's 'El Ojo Crítico'; and Berta Tapia, head of the Culture area of ​​RNE.

The awards were created by the cultural program of Radio Nacional 27 years ago with the aim of rewarding young talents and have become one of the best supports for the dissemination and promotion of artists who are beginning their careers.