Today the contest announces the distinctions made by the University of Seville, the Pablo de Olavide University, ASECAN, AAMMA and the Association Culture with Pride
Tomorrow, Saturday November 14th, the complete list of winners and a first evaluation of the execution of activities will be announced
Today, seven of the awards that make up the list of winners of the 17th edition of the Seville European Film Festival, which will be fully presented tomorrow, Saturday November 14th, is made public. The awards that have been announced are those granted by the University of Seville, the Pablo de Olavide University, the Association of Women Writers and Filmmakers of Andalusia (ASECAN), the Andalusian Association of Women in Audiovisual Media (AAMMA) and the Association Culture with Pride.
The ASECAN jury, formed by Arturo Andújar, Ignacio Ortega and Manuel Sayalonga, has decided to award the Rosario Valpuesta Prize for Best Short Film in the Andalusian Panorama section to Of Hearts And Castles, by Rubén Navarro, " for the way in which -through a formidable structure and honest interpretations- the camera manages to capture the looks, gestures and emotions". The Rosario Valpuesta Special Award in the Artistic Category of Andalusian Panorama went to Sándor M. Salas, the director of the short film Silencio Sísmico, "for his excellent ability to narrate through the collage technique, and to introduce us to the pandemic world in which we live, beyond the illness, through images and sounds". Both awards are granted with the collaboration of the Pablo de Olavide University.
The jury composed by Luis Méndez, Sergio Cobo, Ana Melendo, Sonia López and José Luis Cienfuegos has awarded the XIII European Film Awards University of Seville - Short Film Script, which supports young talent and vindicates the crucial importance of the script, "key piece of any film project, but also the most vulnerable". In the category of Fiction, the project Chavales de La Paz, by Sandra Romero Acevedo, has been awarded "for its solid plot base and its authenticity as an original text with action taking place in the peripheral neighborhood of La Paz in Ecija"; while in the Non-Fiction category, Jorge Castrillo's project Los Oscuros has been recognized, highlighting the narration of "those increasingly forgotten stories of rural areas in the process of depopulation, which make up the memory of a territory marked by and for work in the countryside".
The ASECAN jury, made up of Arturo Andújar, Ignacio Ortega and Manuel Sayalonga, has agreed to award the ASECAN Prize for the best film in the Official Section to the Spanish film La vida era eso, by David Martín de los Santos, "for the sincerity and intensity with which it confronts the high emotional content of this story of longings and desires, where friendship and love are fused".
The jury of the Andalusian Association of Women in Audiovisual Media (AAMMA), composed by Teresa Arbolí, Rafaela Rodriguez and Helena Sevine, has awarded the AAMMA Women In Focus 2020 Award to the film, in the New Waves section, Fucking With Nobody, by Finnish director Hannaleena Hauru, "for being an original transgressive and groundbreaking film, which breathes and makes us all breathe freedom. For placing us in front of topics as current as the trivialization in social media or the deconstruction of the myth and the idyllic love story. For promoting diversity and for showing us an enterprising woman in whom we can feel identified". Likewise, the jury praised this story, where the protagonist decides to undertake her own audiovisual project, as "a very inspiring film for all the women who work in the film industry".
The jury, organized by the Association Culture with Pride, made up by Javier Paisano, Mila Fernández, Manuel Rosado and Piermario Salerno, has decided that the Ocaña 2020 Freedom Award will go to the film Petite Fille, by Sébastien Lifshitz, from The New Waves Non-Fiction section, "for offering us a profound and enlightening look at the struggle that Sacha's family is maintaining against a suffocating bureaucracy and the suffering of their 7 year old trans daughter".