‘Intemperie’, ‘Adiós’ and ‘La trinchera infinite’ will compete with a greater number of nominations at the 2020 Andalusian Film Awards

The award ceremony, organized by ASECAN with the official support of the SGAE Foundation, will take place on January 18 at the Lope de Vega Theater in Seville.

The Association of Film Writers of Andalusia (ASECAN) announced this morning the nominations for the 32nd Andalusian Film Awards that are celebrated with the Foundation of the General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) as an official collaborating entity.

The headquarters of the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation hosted the reading of nominations for the Andalusian Film Awards, in which the nominees in the 27 competitive categories were present.

The act has been introduced by the president of ASECAN, Lourdes Palacios, and has had the intervention of Almudena Lopez, member of the Board of Directors of ASECAN, and Antonio Gonzalo, member of the Andalusian Territorial Council of the SGAE. Below, the nominations have been presented by the journalist Francisco Gomez Zayas, the production director Manuela Ocon, the communicator Julio Muñoz and the actresses Cristina Dominguez, Peace of Alarcón y Mari Paz Sayago.

Among the Andalusian films that stand out for their number of nominations are Bad weather, of Benito Zambrano with 11 nominations; Bye, of Paco Cabezas with 10 nominations and The infinite trench, by Jon Garaño, José María Goenaga and Aitor Arregi with 9 nominations.

522, a cat, a Chinese man and my father by Paco Baños concurs with 7 nominations, One more time Guillermo Rojas does it with 6 nominations, while Me, my wife and my dead wife of Santi Amodeo and Barzai by Alejandro Salgado achieve 5 nominations each.

For its part, Taxi to Gibraltar by Alejo Flah, Team D, the forgotten codes by Jorge Laplace, Elisa and Marcela by Isabel Coixet and Always strong, the story of Pablo Ráez by Vladimir Ráez and Miguel Ángel Hernández Arango accumulate 4 nominations each.

Buñuel in the turtle labyrinth by Salvador Simó and Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar have 3 nominations each; and with 2 nominations they will compete Menese by Remedios Malvárez and José Romero, The wedding by Ana Graciani, Before burning by Fernando Colomo, live twice by María Ripoll, The zero crack by José Luis Garci, While the war lasts by Alejandro Amenábar, Parking by Tudor Giurgiu, Discovering Otto: the consul who challenged Hitler by Ricardo Barby and Time After by José Luis Cuerda.

The Award for Best Andalusian Film they will dispute it Bad weather de Áralan, Morena y Ukbar Films, Bye by La Claqueta PC and Apache Films, The infinite trench de La Claqueta PC, Irusioin, Moriarti Productions and Manny Films, 522, a cat, a Chinese man and my father by Tarkemoto and Ukbar Films and One more time the Summer Films y Sarao Films.

Los andalusian directors This year's candidates for the Andalusian Film Award are Benito Zambrano for Bad weather, Alejandro Salgado by Barzai, Paco Baños by 522, a cat, a Chinese man and my father, Paco Cabezas by Bye, and Remedios Malvárez and José Romero for Menese.

This year Asecan has nominated the main work of the actresses Belén Cuesta by The infinite trench, Ingrid García Jonsson by Taxi to Gibraltar, Inma Cuesta live twice, and Natalia de Molina for 522, a cat, a Chinese man and my father.

For their part, the male interpreters nominated in leading roles are Antonio Banderas for pain and glory, Antonio de la Torre by The infinite trench, Dani Rovira by Taxi to Gibraltar and Save Queen by Before burning.

In this edition of the ASECAN Awards, a total of 529 registrations in all categories, 38% more than in the previous edition. Of them, 400 are for personal works and 129 correspond to collective works. In the Film category (which includes Andalusian productions or co-productions that have been released), this year 19 works are competing. There have also been 16 Non-Fiction feature films, 69 short films and 12 works in the Other Formats category.

In the categories that recognize acting work this year, 95 performers participated, specifically 53 actresses and 42 actors. Of all the other personal candidacies that are not interpreting, 69.17% correspond to candidacies made up of only men, 18.18% to candidacies of women and 12.65% to mixed candidacies. Since 2012, the cultural arm of the SGAE has offered support to this great meeting point of Andalusian cinematography and creation, thereby strengthening its objective of promoting and promoting the work of Andalusian authors who develop their profession in the field of audiovisuals, increasingly recognized in the rest of the national territory.

The XXXII Andalusian Film Awards Gala will be held on January 18, 2020 at the Lope de Vega Theater in Seville.