EGEDA reveals the feature films and series that are competing for the Forqué Awards

'El 47' (Marcel Barrena), 'La Estrella Azul' (Javier Macipe), 'La infiltrada' (Arantxa Echevarría) and 'Second Prize' (Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez) will compete as finalists for the Best Fiction Feature Film Award while 'Cristóbal Balenciaga' (Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi, José Mari Goenaga, Lourdes Iglesias), 'The Case' Asunta' (Ramón Campos), 'The Lawyers' (Patricia Ferreira) and 'Querer' (Alauda Ruiz de Azúa) will be nominated for Best Fiction Series at the José María Forqué Awards.

The professionals and the finalist works, selected from a total of 379 productions, will meet at the gala next Saturday, December 14 at IFEMA Madrid Palacio Municipal, in which the winners of the Forqué Awards will be announced, consolidated after thirty editions as the industry awards and the first awards to open the awards calendar, offering an overview of the great audiovisual quality of the season.

In the acting categories for feature film, will be candidates for the award for Best Female Performance, Carolina Yuste for her role in The infiltrator, Emma Vilarasau by House in flames, Najwa Nimri for her performance in The red virgin y Patricia Lopez Arnaiz by The Flashes. In the same way, Antonio de la Torre will aspire to the Best Male Performance award for The sparkles, Eduard Fernández by Marco, Mario Casas for Escape and Pepe Lorente for The blue star.

Los acting awards for series They will group Candela Peña for The Asunta case, Carmen Machi for her role in Celeste, Iria del Río by The new years and Nagore Aramburu for To want as finalists for Best Female Performance in a Series, while Alberto San Juan in his role as Cristobal Balenciaga, Javier Cámara for his performance in Rapa T3, Oriol Pla por I, addict and Pedro Casablanc for To want They will do the same in the category of Best Male Performance in a Series.

In the same way, the thirtieth Forqué gala will feature the award for Best Documentary Feature Film, for which they are finalists Chaplin. gypsy spirit (Carmen Chaplin), The flamenco guitar by Yerai Cortés (Antón Álvarez), Marisol, call me Pepa (Blanca Torres) and My brother Ali (Paula Palacios). Demonstrating interest in the diversity of genres and formats, the prize for Best Cinematographic Short Film groups the nominations of Eternal Night (Eneko Sagardoy), Evanescent (Gala Gracia and Guillermo Garavito) and The great work (Alex Lora Cercos). The Award for Best Animated Feature Film celebrates two editions as an independent award with Buffalo Kids (Pedro Solís and Juan Jesús García 'Galo'), Gragon Guardian – Dragonkeeper (Salvador Simó y L Jianping), black butterflies (David Baute) and Rock Bottom (María Trenor) as finalists in this category.

The Ibero-American vocation of the Forqué family will be evident in the awarding of the prize for Best Latin American Film of the Year, a trophy that will be competed The Jockey (Luis Ortega), The place of the other (Love Alberdi), dog thief (Vinko Tomicic) and Memories of a body that burns (Antonella Sudasassi). Asimism, the lsocial and educational work of our audiovisual will be vindicated with the prize for Cinema and Education in Values, whose nominees are The 47 (Marcel Barrena), The blue star (Javier Macipe), The infiltrator (Arantxa Echevarría) and I'm Nevenka (Iciar Bollaín).

As is tradition, the Forqué gala will feature the award of the Gold medal, an honorary award from EGEDA that recognizes a fundamental career in the history of our audiovisual and that in this edition will go to the producer, director, screenwriter and disseminator Jose Luis Garci.