The Film Academy and the Malaga Festival recognize Sylvie Imbert with the Ricardo Franco Award

The makeup artist, who has worked on more than fifty films, has won two Goya Awards for 'Snow White' and 'Nobody Wants the Night'.

The Film Academy and the Malaga Festival have recognized Sylvie Imbert with the Ricardo Franco Award, an award that the French makeup artist will receive in what will be the 20th edition of the Andalusian contest, which will be held from March 17 to 26.

Fruit of the collaboration agreement between the Academy and the Festival and for the ninth consecutive year, the institution supports this award for film technicians that was created in tribute to the director, screenwriter and producer Ricardo Franco one year after his death, in 1999.

Awarded two Goya Awards for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for snow white y Nobody wants the night, this renowned professional arrived in our country in the eighties, and her first contact with the film industry was as an interpreter and translator of American films that were filmed in Spain.

Malena is a tango name, by Gerardo Herrero, was his debut in Spanish cinema, where he has collaborated, among other directors, with Alejandro Amenábar, José Luis Cuerda, Álex de la Iglesia, Fernando Trueba, Paula Ortiz, Isabel Coixet and Pablo Berger, with whom he has repeated in Abracadabra.

Among the more than fifty films in which he has worked is also The call, by debutants Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo. Film, shorts, television and spots make up the career of Imbert, who is currently dedicated to makeup design for The man who killed Don Quixote, by Terry Gilliam.