Lola Salvador will receive the Ricardo Franco Award from the Film Academy at the 28th Malaga Festival

The Film Academy and the Malaga Festival have decided to grant the screenwriter Lola Salvador he Ricardo Franco Award 2025, recognition that he will receive in what will be the 28th edition of the Andalusian contest, which will be held from March 14 to 23.

Writer, screenwriter, director, producer and teacher, Lola Salvador (Barcelona, ​​1938) is a essential figure in contemporary Spanish culture, whose career is characterized by its artistic quality, social impact and commitment to memory and cultural identity. His scripts, which include The Cuenca crime o Bicycles are for summer, have marked milestones in Spanish cinematography. With them, Lola Salvador has demonstrated her ability to address complex topics with a human approach and brave and his ability to capture universal emotions and weave powerful narratives.

National Cinematography Award 2014, Lola Salvador is a founding member of numerous institutions and entities, such as the Film Academy, ALMA, DAMA and SOURCES (MEDIA project to support European screenwriters). In 2022, DAMA creates the Lola Salvador DAMA Script Award, the one with the largest financial endowment in Spain

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