The Malaga Festival will recognize the extensive career of Juan Antonio Bayona with the Retrospective Award

The Malaga competition will premiere the documentary 'I Hate New York', directed by Gustavo Sánchez and of which Bayona is executive producer.

He Malaga Festival will grant in its 21st edition (from April 13 to 22, 2018) the Retrospective Award, which is awarded in collaboration with the newspaper Málaga Hoy, to Juan Antonio Bayona. The Festival thus wants to reward the extensive career of this still young director, who has become one of the great international figures of our cinema, equally acclaimed by critics and the public.

Juan Antonio Bayona (Barcelona, ​​1975) is Graduated in management from ESCAC (Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya), where he made the multi-award-winning short films my vacation (1999) y The sponge man (2002).

In 2007 he made his feature film debut with The orphanage, which premiered at the Cannes Festival and for which Bayona received the Goya for Best New Director.

In 2012 he premiered Impossible, the film became the cinematographic phenomenon of the year with more than six million spectators and five Goya awards, including Best Director. That same year he was recognized with the National Cinematography Award, awarded by the Ministry of Culture.

In 2014 he directed the pilot episode and the second episode of the serie Penny Dreadful for the North American television network Showtime, produced by Sam Mendes.

A year later he directed the short documentary Intermón for Oxfam, 9 days in Haiti, which defends the importance of development cooperation and the urgent need to recover from its critical situation.

In October 2016 he premiered A monster comes to see me, starring Lewis McDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones and Liam Neeson. The film won nine Goya Awards, including best director.

In 2017 he produced The Secret of Marrowbone, by Sergio G. Sánchez, screenwriter of The orphanage y Impossible.

In 2018 Juan Antonio Bayona will premiere Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, produced by Steven Spielberg.

I have New York

This year it will present I Hate New York, a feature-length documentary directed by Gustavo Sánchez, of which he is executive producer and which will premiere at the next edition of the Malaga Festival.

I hate New York collects the lives of four transgender women artists and activists from the New York underground night scene, who recount in first person their experiences and their struggles for their own identity.

The film has a soundtrack that acts as a common thread. A careful selection that includes original music by Arca, one of the most extraordinary artists of today, as well as the Oscar-winning composer, Ryuichi Sakamoto, together with one of the most important sound explorers of the international experimental scene, Alva Noto, passing through the iconic drag singer Sharon Needles, and the punk-rock of Transisters, whose story appears in the film.