Chicho Ibáñez Serrador, Feroz Honor Award 2017

On January 23 in Madrid the IV Feroz Awards gala will be held in which the legendary director, producer and screenwriter of television, film and theater will receive this honorary award granted by the Association of Cinematographic Informants of Spain

The organizing committee of the IV Feroz Awards has chosen the legendary film and television director Narciso “Chicho” Ibáñez Serrador as the 2017 Feroz Honor Award. He is one of the great names in Spanish television, known and loved by the public and, in addition, respected by critics for such innovative creations as Stories to Not Sleep, with which he scared the whole of Spain, and thanks to films like Who Can Kill a Child?

In a year in which the Feroz Awards expand horizons, including six categories dedicated to television series, the Honor Award goes to a creator who has united the two worlds, innovating in each of them and standing out for his technical and provocative quality. So much so, that many of today's leading film directors, such as J. Bayona, Enrique Urquizu, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo or Álex de la Iglesia, feel influenced by the work of Chicho Ibáñez Serrador, with whom they came to make 'Films to Not Sleep'.

For the general public, Chicho will always be the man who made them tremble with fear and, years later, laugh with the contest One, two, three. Contest that began airing in 1972 and continued for 33 years (22 of them uninterrupted), breaking audience records.

Less popular is its cinematographic side, which has produced cult films such as the one already mentioned. Who can kill a child? o The residence, two great horror films (one of the genres in which he has moved with greater ease).

Born 81 years ago in Montevideo and raised, according to him, among cotton wool due to an illness he suffered as a child, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador began his professional career working as a waiter, calendar photographer and even presenter at a nightclub in the City of Cairo where he had arrived, enrolled in a merchant ship, pursuing the daughter of some diplomats with whom he had fallen in love.

In the 1950s, already in Spain, he worked as an actor in his mother's theater company, Pepita Serrador, and shortly after he moved into theater direction. In 1963 he began to collaborate with TVE, completely revolutionizing the world of television with programs such as Stories to keep you from sleeping, History of frivolity, Let's talk about sex or the mythical One, two, three... answer again, which managed to gather 20 million viewers in front of the television in the 1980s.

He received the National Television Award in 2010, to which he will now add this Feroz de Honor Award, which recognizes this key character in the history of both our cinema and television.

Delivery ceremony

The 2017 Feroz Awards ceremony will take place in Madrid on January 23, in a gala broadcast by #0 of Movistar+. This edition also includes six new categories to recognize the best Spanish television series and an honorary award has been created for the best documentary feature film.

The nominees will be announced on Thursday, December 1, after the first round of voting by journalists and critics from all over Spain who make up the AICE. The rest of the special prizes will be announced soon.

The Association of Film Reporters of Spain is a plural group of more than 170 journalists and critics dedicated to reporting on cinema in different media (television, radio, press and internet) throughout the State. Since 2014, they have presented the Feroz Awards to highlight the best of the year's Spanish film production; the Feroz Zinemaldia Award, which distinguishes the best film at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and the Feroz Puerta Oscura Award, which distinguishes the best documentary feature film among those presented at the Málaga Festival.