Marta Matute wins the XVIII SGAE Script Award for Feature Film 'Julio Alejandro'

Con I will not die of love, a story about love, dependence and the collision between obligation and desire in the shoes of a mother and daughter, the Madrid author Marta Matute has won the XVIII SGAE Script Award for Feature Film Julio Alejandro organized by the SGAE Foundation since 2001.

The jury, made up of the screenwriters Beatriz García Alós and Carmen Fernández Villalba and the filmmakers Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón and Gerardo Herrero, under the presidency of the screenwriter Silvia Pérez de Pablos (institutional director of the audiovisual of the SGAE Foundation), has selected the script of I will not die of love as the best of the 3 finalist works (of a total of 189 presented) for delving precisely into complex topics such as dependence on the family environment, maturity and the clash of realities, love, affection or the incompatibility of obligation and desire.

The award, worth 25,000 euros, was awarded at the Sala Berlanga as the final point of a cycle that retrospectively celebrated the 20 years of this prestigious award, reviewing some award-winning scripts that were made and brought to the big screen. The two honorable mentions of 3,500 euros each have also been awarded to the two finalists: Clara Sánchez and Salvador Serrano for Se gone con la noche and Mateu Adrover with The roots of the sky. With this annual contest, the SGAE Foundation seeks to promote the production of new audiovisual content and enhance the quality of cinematographic literature.

I will not die of love tells the story of Claudia, a twenty-something whose mother is sick with Alzheimer's. She refuses to let her youth be suffocated by her role as a precocious caregiver, so her motto when leaving home will be “don't stop.” But the disease will have the same motto... A story about love, dependence, the acquisition of consciousness or the conflict between duty and desire.

Graduated in Audiovisual Communication, Marta Matute (Madrid, 1988) is a professor of technique and improvisation at the William Layton Theater Laboratory and has worked mainly in theater as an actress and assistant director in independent productions or in centers such as the National Dramatic Center or Teatros del Canal, with works such as Pablo Messiez's Songs, Taxi Girl by María Velasco or texts by Goldoni, but also in cinema as a scriptwriter or camera assistant.