Yuyi Beringola, Ricardo Franco Award from the Film Academy

The script Yuyi Beringola, with a career of more than 100 films along with Almodóvar, Jaime Chávarri and Pilar Miró, will receive the Ricardo Franco Prize, awarded by the Film Academy and the Malaga Festival.

Yuyi Beringola He grew up in a family of filmmakers. He visited a film set for the first time at the age of 7 and, according to the Film Academy, he felt that what he saw before his eyes was “pure magic.” "And there, apart but being part of that magic, she discovered a man who was observing calmly, full of papers and pencils: it was the script. At that moment, that girl knew that she wanted to be part of that world and occupy that place," the institution notes.

Since then, Beringola has been dedicated to body and soul to the script. Your professional resume includes more than a hundred films and television series. For many years, an essential collaborator of Pedro Almodovar, with whom he has worked in Parallel mothers, pain and glory, Julieta, Los amantes pasajeros, La piel que habito, Los abrazos rotos, Volver, La mala educación, Hable con ella, Todo sobre mi madre, ¡Átame!, ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? y between darkness. También era la script habitual de Pilar Miró (El perro del hortelano, El pájaro de la felicidad, Beltenebros, Esquilache, Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos), y ha trabajado con Pedro Olea (Más allá del jardín, El maestro de esgrima, Bandera negra), Jaime Chávarri (Las bicicletas son para el verano) y Ricardo Franco (El sueño de Tánger). Habitual en producciones internacionales, a la lista de cineastas se suman Terry Gilliam (El hombre que mató a Don Quijote, Las aventuras del barón de Munchausen), Stephen Frears (The Hit), Guillermo del Toro (The devil's backbone) y Asghar Farhadi (everyone knows it).

Currently, Beringola is filming the musical in Almería Road to Bethlehem, directed by Adam Anders.

As a result of the collaboration agreement between the Academy and the festival and for the fifteenth consecutive year, the institution supports this award intended for the film technicians which was created in tribute to the director, screenwriter and producer Ricardo Franco a year after his death, in 1999.