Diana Navarro, María Toledo y Sole Gimenez They will be the artists in charge of providing their music to the gala of the 30th anniversary of the Forqué Awards next Saturday, December 14 at the IFEMA Madrid Municipal Palace.
The three artists will perform the songs live in front of an audience that will include the best talent of the Spanish film and series season, nominated in the thirtieth edition of the industry awards.
While Diana Navarro and María Toledo will sing a duet of a well-known song in the Spanish musical heritage and linked to Spanish audiovisuals, Sole Giménez will sing alone an emotional traditional song that promises to trigger one of the most heartfelt moments of the night.
In addition to the musical performances that will liven up the gala 30th anniversary of the Forqué, lThe ceremony will feature the participation of great figures from the small and big screen. Thus, Carlos Latre will parade across the stage of the IFEMA Madrid Municipal Palace, who will recreate the voices of some figures from cinema and series; Asier Etxeandía, who will combine his acting skills with his great musical talent in the closing performance of the gala, and Miquel Fernández, who will contribute his extensive experience as a musical performer to star in the opening of the gala.
Likewise, the ceremony, which will feature the presentation of Elena S. Sánchezwill bring emotional moments for the history of audiovisuals such as the awarding of the EGEDA Gold Medal to the director and producer Jose Luis Garci.
NOMINATED WORKS
Of the 120 fiction films presented, four films have been nominated for Best Fiction Feature Film: ‘The Blue Star’ and ‘The Infiltrator’, with three nominations, including acting categories, followed by ‘El 47’, with two, while ‘Second Prize’ completes the list of candidates with a single nomination.
The selection of actors competing for the award for Best Male Performance is made up of Antonio de la Torre (‘The Flashes’), Eduard Fernández (‘Marco’), Mario Casas (‘Escape’) and Pepe Lorente (‘The Blue Star’ ).
Meanwhile, the candidates for the Best Female Performance Award with the most votes have been Carolina Yuste (‘The Infiltrator’), Emma Vilarasau (‘Casa en Flames’), Najwa Nimri (‘The Red Virgin’) and Patricia López Arnaiz (‘Los flashes’).
Likewise, the 30th Forqué gala will have the award for Best Documentary Feature Film, for which ‘Chaplin. Gypsy Spirit’ (Carmen Chaplin), ‘The flamenco guitar of Yerai Cortés’ (Antón Álvarez), ‘Marisol, call me Pepa’ (Blanca Torres) and ‘My brother Alí’ (Paula Palacios).
In the category for Best Cinematographic Short Film, the nominations are for ‘Betiko Gaua’ (Eneko Sagardoy), ‘Evanescente’ (Gala Gracia and Guillermo Garavito) and ‘The great work’ (Alex Lora Cercos). In addition, the Award for Best Animated Feature Film celebrates two editions as an independent award with ‘Buffalo Kids’ (Pedro Solís and Juan Jesús García ‘Galo’), ‘Guardiana de dragones – Dragonkeeper’ (Salvador Simó and Li Jianping), ‘Mariposas negra ‘ (David Baute) and ‘Rock Bottom’ (María Trenor) as finalists in this category.
SERIES
In the series section, ‘Querer’, directed by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, has emerged as the favorite production by having three nominations: for Best Female Performance (Nagore Aranburu), for Best Male Performance (Pedro Casablanc) and for Best Series fiction.
This fiction series will compete with ‘Cristobal Balenciaga’ and ‘El Caso Asunta’, both with two nominations, and ‘The Lawyers’ (1 nomination), to win the Forqué Award for Best Series.
In the case of actresses, Candela Peña (‘El Caso Asunta’), Carmen Machi (‘Celeste’), Iria del Río (‘Los Años Nuevos’) and Nagore Aranburu (‘Querer’) are the nominees for Best Female Performance , while in the men’s category Alberto San Juan (‘Cristobal Balenciaga’), Javier Cámara (‘Rapa’), Oriol Pla (‘Yo, addict’) and Pedro Casablanc (‘Querer’).