‘Cerrar los ojos’, Best Feature Film at the III Carmen Awards

The record of the III Carmen Awards of the Andalusian Film Academy recognizes ‘Cerrar los ojos’ by Víctor Erice as Best Feature Film of the year, while Patricia Ortega takes the award for Best Director for ‘Mamacruz’.

The Casa Colon de Huelva has hosted the award ceremony for the III Carmen Awards, quote with which Andalusian Film Academy recognizes the cinematographic talent produced by performers, directors and producers from the Autonomous Community. Throughout the night a total of 25 awards, one of them being Carmen Honor Award a Jose Luis Gomez, actor and theater director.

The prize of Best Feature Film the return of Victor Erice to feature films: close your eyes from Pecado Films, Tandem Films, Nautilus Films and Pampa Films. It has been the only award that the film has won on the night, since Mamacruz y I'm loving you madly They have monopolized a large part of the evening's prizes. The first film, directed by Patricia Ortega, has taken the Carmen to Best Direction, Best Female Lead Performance (Kitty Maneuver), Best Female Performance Casting (Mª Paz Sayago) and Best Editing (Fatima de los Santos). On the other hand, I'm loving you madly by Alejandro Marín has taken the Best Original Screenplay (Alejandro Marín and Carmen Garrido), Best Male Supporting Performance (Jesus Carroza), Best New Director (Alejandro Marin), Best Production Management (Carmen Garrido) and Best Makeup and Hairstyling (Carmela Martín).

It has also stood out Tin & Tina with awards in the categories of Best Art Direction (Vanesa de la Haza), Best Costume ex aequo (Lourdes Fuentes, shared with Consuelo Bahamonde and Andrea Escudero by The wait) y Best Cinematography (Alejandro Espadero AEC); Iberia, infinite nature, con Carmen a Best Documentary Feature Film already Better Sound (Jorge Marín); The wait, winners of Best Male Lead Performance (Victor Clavijo) and Best New Male Performance (Antonio Estrada), and Dryers, who takes the Carmens to Best Original Music (Paloma Peñarrubia) and Best Special Effects (Amparo Martínez).

The evening's record is completed with the Best Adapted Screenplay for José Antonio Hergueta and Regina Álvarez Lorenzo for Caleta Palace; the Best New Female Performance for Lupe Mateo Barredo for Andrea's love; the Best Original Song for “I am as I am” by Miguel Rivera in As God commands; he Best Non-Andalusian Feature Film to The snow society by J. A. Bayona; he Best Fiction Short Film to Lava, and the Best Documentary Short Film to Mothertruckers.