Andalusian filmmakers grant the Medal of Honor of Asecan to Pepe Moreno

In addition to the medal granted to Malaga Pepe Moreno in recognition of his vital and professional career always dedicated to cinema, Asecan also recognizes the work of the SGAE Foundation and the Planet Cinema (Marchena).

The association of writers and cinematographic writers of Andalusia, ASECAN, will celebrate next Saturday, January 26, the delivery gala of the 31st edition of the Asecan Awards of the Andalusian Cinema 2019 at the Lope de Vega Theater in Seville.

In addition to the delivery of the awards that distinguish the Andalusian cinematographic works of last year, Asecan will grant this time the 2019 Asecan of Honor Prize to the 2019 SGAE Foundation as a distinction for their support and support to the authors and authors within the framework of the Andalusian film industry.

On the other hand, the Asecan Medal of Honor will go to the hands of Malaga Pepe Moreno in recognition of his vital and professional career Always dedicated to cinema. Asecan thus recovers his medal of honor to distinguish the figure of Andalusian personalities that have highlighted in their profession dedicated to the audiovisual field.

Also, the centenary Cinement Film of Marcha (Seville) will receive the Asecan Industria-Aedava award. For the sixth consecutive year, and under the agreement signed with ASECAN, the Association of Audiovisual Distribution Companies of Andalusia -AEDAVA- grants this award in order to recognize a personality or institution related to the field of action of the distribution and exhibition in Andalusia.

A life dedicated to cinema

Born in Ronda in 1943, Pepe Moreno (Honor Medal of Honor 2019) treasures 55 years of professional dedication to the promotion and dissemination of audiovisual resources and cinema, in their scientific, cultural, educational and social facets.

With 20 years he was already the director of the Audiovisual Media Center of Malaga (CEMAV), where he has remained until his retirement in 2008. Diploma in Cinematography in Valladolid, he has been a film critic at COPE and in the newspaper Sol in Spain. With several colleagues from the College of Doctors and Graduates of Malaga, he created and coordinated the “Modern Times” Cinema (1973 to 1981) and later the Cine Club “Luis Buñuel” in La Cala del Moral (2012 to 2014). In addition to his work in CEMAV, on a personal level, he creates and directs several film festivals, including: Ronda Scientific Film Festival (1977 to 2004), the Eurovideo contest in Malaga (1999 to 2009), the European Contest Visconti Foundation in Ischia (Italy) (2004 to 2008), or the Video Video Festival Colima (Mexico) (2009 to 2013). He was a founding partner and coordinator of Asfaan - Association of Audiovisual Festivals of Andalusia (2007 to 2018).

He has been a professor in the Faculties of Sciences of Education and Communication Sciences of the University of Malaga, where he creates and directs with the students, the 124 chapters of the television program Andalusia Cinema (2005 to 2009). He has taught more than 100 film and audiovisual courses in more than 20 universities in Spain and other countries, being sworn in almost 30 festivals.

A cinema with more than 100 years of history

Marchena planets cinema (Seville), exceeds 107 years of history as a business in operation in a heroic and uninterrupted way. He has lived practically the entire film history, from his first outdoor projections to modern films exhibitions. It is part of the history of the cinematographer in Marchena, where cinema arrived in 1908.

From that date until today, Marchena has lived a film relationship with the seventh art. After passing through some theaters and buildings of the town, sporadically, the first space that was considered fully as a cinema would not reach the forty decade when the Jiménez family opened the planet cinemas. Today the cinema maintains the same essence that characterized the cinema in this Andalusian city.