The actress Cecilia Roth, who will receive this Saturday, April 20, the Platinum Award of Honor at the gala of the 11th edition of the awards, has made a “request for help” because, as she has stated, in Argentina it is becoming “very difficult “to make films and asks to be “attentive” because “next year there may not be any representative at the Platinum Awards because no film will be made.”
“Culture is now a point of almost expulsion for all of us who dedicate ourselves to this because they are dismantling everything related to culture and cinema. I want this to be known in Spain and in Latin America, it is a request for help because in our cinema we must be attentive because next year there may not be any Argentine representative because this year there may be no film made,” he said at a press conference held at the Xcaret Park in Riviera Maya (Mexico), before a packed room. of media from Spain and Latin America.
The actress has praised Argentine audiovisuals and highlighted that “it is increasingly economically beneficial” and also increasingly generates “massive” interest. Furthermore, she has warned that a “strong wind” like the one Argentina is experiencing, in reference to the policies of President Javier Milei, can “upend the entire industry,” and especially Latin American cinema, which “are fragile and vulnerable countries.” .
On the other hand, Cecilia Roth was “enormously” grateful for the award and the affection received. “The Platinum Award for me is an entire country, in which we can cross paths, get to know each other, tell each other and do so with our own identity, but at the same time woven with the same language,” she stated.
For his part, the president of the Audiovisual Producers Rights Management Entity (EGEDA), has highlighted that Cecilia Roth’s career “crosses borders and unites cinematographic countries” and has emphasized that she is an actress who “understands sentimental memory of an entire language”.
In previous editions, this award has recognized actors and actresses of the stature of Benicio del Toro, José Sacristán, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas and Adriana Barraza, among others.
A CAREER MARKED BY PEDRO ALMODÓVAR
The actress settled in Spain in 1977 by participating in projects by directors such as José Luis Garci, under the orders of the one who worked on ‘The Green Prairies’ (1979), a film that would be followed by ‘The Family, Well, Thank You’ (Pedro Masó, 1979) and ‘The course we love by Kim Novak’ (Juan José Porto, 1980).
Subsequently, she began a fruitful collaboration with Pedro Almodóvar, with whom she starred in iconic films such as ‘Pepi, Luci, Bom… and other girls from the pile’ (1980), ‘Labyrinth of passions’ (1982) and ‘Entre tinieblas’ (1983). ).
In 1998, Cecilia Roth made history by becoming the first non-Spanish actress to win the Goya Award for best actress for her role in ‘Martín (Hache)’, by Adolfo Aristarain. This professional success would be followed by the arrival of international recognition at the hands of Pedro Almodóvar. The film’s winning of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1999 marked Roth’s recognition as an actress of international prominence.
Almodóvar used her again in 2012 for the film ‘The Passenger Lovers’, and that same year she starred in ‘Marriage’ (Carlos Jaureguialzo) alongside Darío Grandinetti and ‘Migas de pan’ (Manane Rodríguez) in Uruguay.
Roth returned to Spain in 2018 to participate in the film ‘Pain and Glory’ by Pedro Almodóvar and in the Movistar Plus+ series, ‘El Embaradero’.