María Zamora will receive the 2024 National Cinematography Award

The producer María Zamora has been chosen by the Ministry of Culture to receive the National Cinematography Award for “her support for independent and risky cinema”, in a career that “has strengthened the presence of Spanish independent cinema in the international market, influencing sensitive and diverse views.”

Zamora will receive the prize, worth 30,000 euros and whose jury has been chaired by Ignasi Camós Victory, general director of the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA), during the course of the next San Sebastian Festival.

María Zamora's filmography began in 2008 with Acne, Federico Veiroj, who after they joined The shame, by David Planell; The woman without a piano, by Javier Rebollo; Map, by Elías León Siminiani; They are all dead, by Beatriz Sanchís; Maria and the others, by Nely Reguera; the Summer 1993, by Carla Simón.

In recent years, Zamora has become one of the key names in Spanish cinema and the emergence of women filmmakers recognized throughout Europe, working in the production of films such as The days to come, by Carlos Marques-Marcet; My Mexican Bretzel, by Nuria Giménez Lorang; Freedom, by Clara Roquet; Matter, by Álvaro Gago; the Creature, by Elena Martín.