The Academy pays tribute to the “invisible” professions of television

The Talent Awards bring together almost 300 media professionals in Madrid in an event that recognizes excellence behind the camera.

Almost three hundred professionals gathered last Thursday at the delivery of the sixteenth Talent Awards of the Television Academy held at the Ateneo de Madrid. María Casado was the host of an event with which the Institution recognizes each year excellence in the “invisible” professions of television.

In this edition, Mar Martínez Raposo (general director of Atresmedia Internacional), Juan Pedro Valentín (news director of Mediaset España), Iñaki Mercero (fiction director), Jordi Rosell (executive producer and director of Gestmusic Endemol Shine Group programs), Ángel Blanco (director of photography), José Carabias (creator of voice and life for television dolls), Antonio Torres (territorial director of Canal Sur Radio and Television in Almería), Teresa Guitart (head of relations) received the award. international and sales of TVC programs), José María González Aldariz (editor of Madrid With You), Miguel Ángel López Santamaría (editor), Óscar Molina de Miguel (direction and executive production of the Audiovisual Area of ​​Grupo Heraldo), Chelo Vivares (actress, gave life to “Espinete”), Paco Alcaraz (characterizer) and Miguel Cañadas (photojournalist).

The ceremony, full of emotional speeches, was directed by Valentín Carrera and Francisco García Novell, produced by Francisco Amescua, illuminated by Jacinto García and was attended by numerous professionals in the field such as Christian Gálvez, Fran Llorente, Pilar García Muñiz, Gloria Serra, Eduardo Aldán, Verónica Mengod, Pedro Delgado, César Benítez, Carmen Bieger, Joaquín Durán, Tacho de la Calle, Alipio Gutiérrez, Inmaculada Galván, Pepe Carbajo, Pepe Quílez and Jacinto García.

In addition, a special recognition was given posthumously to Ignacio Moreno Blond for his “excellent career in the service of public television and for brilliantly performing his journalistic work behind the camera as deputy director in Weekly Report"His family and the program director Jenaro Castro were in charge of collecting the award.

Extraordinary Talent Award

The finishing touch to the Ceremony was the presentation of the Extraordinary Talent Award to the first founders of the Television Academy. The president recalled in his speech that with this recognition "the current Board of Directors wanted to honor the initiative of creating the Television Academy 20 years ago by some professionals who understood the need to have an Institution that defended the dignity of our work and who invited many of us to join it."

22 media professionals signed the founding act of the Academy of Television Sciences and Arts of Spain before a notary on January 28, 1997 in a deed headed by Ramón del Corral. They were joined by up to 164 founding members who each disbursed 100,000 pesetas of the time to provide assets to the Institution that was born. This recognition is the first of a series of events that will take place throughout the year to commemorate the twentieth anniversary and the work of the founders.

The Extraordinary Talent was collected by prominent professionals in the field such as Rafael Ansón, Isabel Gemio, Ricardo Visedo, Jorge Sánchez Gallo, Mikel Lejarza, Miguel Martín (son), Jorge del Corral, Miguel Ángel Gozalo, Pedro Erquicia, Lorenzo Díaz, Jorge Arqué, José Mª Avendaño Claudio Biern, Isabel Raventós and the children of the former presidents of the Academia Jesús Hermida, Antonio Mercero and Ignacio Salas.