Kleber Mendonça’s film wins Platinum for Best Director, Best Film and Best Screenplay, among others
CANCUN, 9 (by Europa Press special envoy Francisco Serrano)
Spanish cinema has won this Saturday, May 9, with a total of thirteen awards in the 13th edition of the Platinum Awards widely distributed among several countries, especially successful for Brazil and ‘The Secret Agent’, by Kleber Mendonça, which has won Best Director, Best Film and Best Screenplay, in addition to four other recognitions.
The gala, which was held in Riviera Maya (Mexico), has awarded Spain thirteen Platinum awards out of a total of 35, counting those that were announced this Saturday and those that were known since last April. In this way, Spain has prevailed over Argentina, which has won eleven, and Brazil, which has received nine Platinums, of which seven belong to ‘The Secret Agent’, a film by Kleber Mendonça that was nominated for the Oscars and the Goya.
Brazilian cinema has been consecrated tonight with the Platinum for Best Film, Best Direction and Best Screenplay for Kleber Mendonça, who in his first appearance on stage for a script has assured that it is a “fantastic” moment to tell stories, despite the fact that “the truth is always manipulated.” “At a time of lies in the world, cinema is a powerful instrument with stories full of poetry and adventure. The union of all this is the best version of artistic expression, with a lot of truth and honesty,” he said.
The filmmaker closed his triple speech by stating that Mexico is a “great country”, after collecting the statuette that recognized him as Best Film. Continuing with the Brazilian success, Wagner Moura has achieved Platinum for Best Male Performance for ‘The Secret Agent’, although he was unable to attend the ceremony because he was working on his next film. These awards are added to the technical ones achieved last Friday: Best Music, Best Editing and Best Art Direction.
The first success of the night for Brazil has come with the documentary ‘Apocalipse nos tropics’. A category for which ‘Afternoons of Solitude’, by Albert Serra, and ‘Flowers for Antonio’, by Elena Molina and Isaki Lacuesta, were nominated. Brazil would once again celebrate a Platinum award shortly after when ‘Beleza Fatal’ became the first production to collect the Platinum award for Best Long-running Series, which was awarded for the first time in this edition. The Spanish ‘Dreams of Freedom’ and ‘The Promise’ aspired to this award, although they have been left without recognition.
The actor Carlos Torres and the actress Cayetana Guillén-Cuervo have been in charge of presenting the XIII Platinum Awards, which began promptly at 8:00 p.m. local time. In their initial speech, the presenters valued Mexico positively, after the exchange of statements between the president of this country, Claudia Sheinbaum, and the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who accused the Mexican of “boycott.” “This territory is unity and pride without arrogance because when Ibero-American audiovisual comes together, it expands,” they commented, before all the flags of the Ibero-American countries were shown on stage.
THE THIRTEEN OF SPAIN The first Spanish Platinum this Saturday came after the first hour of the gala and was for ‘Sorda’, by Eva Libertad, which was awarded Best First Feature. The filmmaker has celebrated that this award is the “perfect” closure for the journey that the film has taken, which has won, among others, three Goya Awards. “I want to share it with all the people who have participated in the film’s journey. And I want to dedicate it to the entire deaf community, their families, sign interpreters and all the people who generate collective reflection. Disability has to stop being seen as a problem and hopefully be seen as the human wealth that it is,” he maintained.
After this award has come the second for Spain. ‘La Cena’, by Manuel Gómez Pereira, has been recognized as Best Ibero-American Fiction Comedy. The award was collected by producer Cristóbal García, who praised the importance of Mexico and asked that it be respected. “We are very fortunate to be able to celebrate our cinema in Mexico, a country that we love and respect very much,” he commented, which generated applause from the public.
The Spanish success has continued with the young Blanca Soroa for her role in ‘Los Domingos’, which earned her the Best Female Performance, an award that has given her a “high” and that she was not expecting. “These months they always ask me what ‘Los Domingos’ has given me, and I always think that it is a brutal journey, but that it would not be like this without the people who have accompanied me. My castmates could not have been better teachers. Patricia López, it was very easy to love you like an aunt,” he said.
Spain won ten technical awards, including Best Supporting Actor for Álvaro Cervantes for ‘Sorda’.
The second country that has received the most Platinums has been Argentina, with a total of eleven, most of them for ‘The Eternaluta’, a production that has triumphed by winning the Platinum for Best Miniseries Creator, for the work of Bruno Stagnaro, and the Platinum for Best Fiction or Documentary Miniseries, while the actor Ricardo Darín has won his third Platinum – counting the Honorary one – for Best Male Performance in a Miniseries or Teleserie.
To these we must add the five achieved in the technical categories and the two achieved by Belén: Best Supporting Actress (Camila Plaate), Film Award and Education in Values, in addition to the Platinum Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for ‘Menem’.
Among the rest of the winners of this gala, Paulina Gaitán (Mexican) stood out, winning Best Actress in a Miniseries for ‘Las Muertas’. “It was achieved,” he assured when taking the stage. In the animation category, the Dominican film ‘Olivia and the Clouds’ was the winner.
GUILLERMO FRANCELLA, HONORABLE PRIZE
On the other hand, the president of EGEDA and the Platinum Awards, Enrique Cerezo, presented the Platinum Honor Award to the Argentine actor Guillermo Francella, who took the stage with the audience on their feet.
“I am very happy, receiving an award is always exciting, but when it comes with the word honor, it always comes with something deeper. What I do know is that I am the result of many encounters, of those who taught me, trusted me or of the public that continues to be my fuel. Also of those who accompany me intimately and professionally, where what one is is really built,” he noted.
The award-winning actor has assured that “passion does not guarantee success”, but it gives meaning to the path and added that this passion “makes the profession regain all its meaning.” “I want everyone here to live off what we love and I really want to thank them because no one arrives alone,” he stated.
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