The film debut of Pilar Palomero with ‘Las Girls’ is worth the Goya for the best novel direction

Palomero is the fourth woman who, consecutively, wins the novel address prize in what is strengthened as a strong thrust of women within the audiovisual sector.

Despite being an edition with very distributed awards among several productions, the tape The girls, he managed to accumulate four of the awards considered of greater entity, including the one obtained by Pilar Palomero, who, with his first feature film, got the statuette to the Best novel address.

The architect of the one considered by the academics the best film of the year, wanted to express in her speech the thanks "to all the people who have believed in me and especially my mother because it has been an example and my father because she always insisted that she fulfilled my dreams."

Palomero is the Fourth woman, who, consecutively, wins the novel address award in what is strengthened as a strong thrust of women within the audiovisual sector and, in particular, of film production.

This fact is evident by the president of the Cinema Academy, Mariano Barroso, in his speech when verifying the increase of productions made by women and the increase of female nominations, which already reach 41% of the total.

Palomero's merit also lies with Isabel Coixet and Icíar Bollaín the only women winning the top Spanish cinema award, the Goya for the best film of the year. In the case of this Zaragoza born in 1980, he has also achieved it with his prima opera.

A success from filming

For the director and scriptwriter of the girls, the filming was "a wonderful moment, perhaps the most beautiful weeks of my life sharing this time with about twenty girls" that were selected from more than a thousand of between 10 and 12 years. The casting director, Gisela Crem, had an arduous selection work, which gave optimal results.

The girls is set in 1992 and has as the protagonist the young Celia, who lives with her mother and studies in a school of nuns in Zaragoza, where she becomes a friend of Brisa, who pushes her to a new stage in her life: adolescence. Everything takes place within the framework of that Spain of the Expo and the Olympic Games in Barcelona.

Pilar Palomero's film was nominated for nine statuettes and was backed by the good results at the Malaga Festival, where he obtained the Gold Biznaga as well as in the Forqué awards, where it was considered, as in the Goya, the best film. He received excellent reviews in Berlin.

The tape has had the production of Films Starts, BTeam Pictures and the support of TVE, Movistar and Aragon TV.

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