Estibaliz Urresola wins the Goya 2024 for Best New Director with '20,000 species of bees'

'20,000 species of bees', although it has fallen short of many awards, has received the support of the academy in the form of the awards for Best New Director and Best Original Screenplay to Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren.

Winner of numerous awards for her short films Dust we are (Málaga, Zinebi, Cortada) o ropes (Rails d’Or de Cannes, Forqué), Urresola has received recognition from the Film Academy with the Goya for Best New Director to 20,000 species of bees, a story that premiered worldwide at the Berlinale that reflects on the search for identity of Lucía, an eight-year-old girl. With a careful and natural photography by Gina Ferrer, this production of Gariza Films e Start Films With this victory, a year of recognitions such as the Golden Biznaga for Best Film at the Malaga Festival or the Feroz to the Best Dramatic Film.

“It makes me proud that there are more and more directors and we have more strength to say that “it's over,” that we don't want more violence or harassment, neither in the cinema nor anywhere else,” she remarked. Urresola in his thanks, referring to the public denunciation of several women to Carlos Vermouth and to the new generation of directors that have triumphed in recent years in the category of Best New Director: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa for Five Little Wolves (2023), Clara Roquet by Freedom (2022), Pilar Palomero by The Girls (2021) Belén Funes by A thief's daughter (2020).

Estibaliz Urresola also collected the award for Best Original Screenplay, yes ok 20,000 species of bees could only add an additional award before the avalanche of awards collected by the technical team of The Snow Society': Best Supporting Actress, awarded to Ane Gabarain.

Access to the Goyas 2024 Special in Panorama