The Film Academy brings together the directors of the four Spanish shorts that aspire to an Oscar

Alvaro Carmona (The treatment), Jose Pozo (Plastic Killer), Bea de Silva (Tula) and Santiago Requejo (We vote) met at the Film Academy to talk about his works, four short films that have been included in the preselection for the 95th edition of the Oscar Awards.

In the words of the president of the institution, Fernando Méndez-Leite, who opened this event by congratulating the directors, the fact that four of the fifteen shorts That they can be nominated for these awards “have been imagined, produced and filmed in Spain” is “an immense satisfaction that the Film Academy could not stop celebrating.” According to the institution itself, The treatment, Plastic Killer, Tula y We vote they have in common the local identity and the use of comedy to talk about issues that concern us as a society, such as superficiality and obsession with aesthetics, the environment, sexual education and mental health, respectively.

All the directors agreed on their desire for “greater commitment from distributors and platforms” so that short films reach audiences “beyond the festival circuit.” The Film Academy, which took up the gauntlet, has confirmed that, within its cultural activities, it will exhibit the four titles on January 11 at 7:00 p.m.. The screening, whose tickets are free and can be reserved on the Film Academy website, will be followed by a meeting with the directors.

With this event, which was also attended by the producers of Plastic Killer (David Ortiz and Elisabet Terri), Tula (Maite Ruiz de Austri) and We vote (Tono Escudero), the Academy celebrates the good condition of the Spanish short film, which has been present at the Oscars for several years, although it has never had such a wide presence as now. In fact, last year, the Spanish Alberto Mielgo won the golden statuette for Best Animated Short Film for The windshield wiper.

The next January 24 it will be known if one or more of the four preselected shorts enter the quintet of nominees, joining the list of seven Spanish fiction short films that competed for the award, after Handcuffed, by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo; 7:35 in the morning, by Nacho Vigalondo; Binta and the great idea, by Javier Fesser; we were few, by Borja Cobeaga; That wasn't me, by Esteban Crespo; Timecode, by Juanjo Giménez; and Madre, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen.