Spanish cinema is moving and renewing itself. A crucible of new voices confirms the evolution of generations of very young professionals, both behind and in front of the camera, from their original point of view, who are not necessarily comfortable but eager to tell unprecedented stories that make us think. about the human condition and the world we live in. The future belongs to them because they are getting stronger and we want to get to know them better.
Carlota Pereda (Nominated for Best New Director) Her first feature film ‘Cerdita’ became an international success after passing through the Sundance Festival. Carlota Pereda directed television series until she started her career as an award-winning short film producer, thanks to works such as ‘Las rubias’ and especially ‘Cerdita’ (which corresponds to where her first film debuts). parts of the movie) won 30 awards, including Goya. She has just finished filming ‘La ermita’ starring Belén Rueda. She is the first woman to be recognized in our country thanks to a horror thriller.
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (Best New Director, Best Screenplay)After graduating from ECAM in Madrid, he devoted himself to advertising while preparing his personal projects. He started a career in the field of short films until his first film ‘Five Little Wolves’ was selected for the Panorama section of the Berlinale. From then on, her first feature film not only stopped receiving awards, but also became a public favorite for her take on something as intimate as motherhood and the mother-child relationship and care. His next movie is ‘It’s you’, a romantic comedy for Netflix that will be released in March.
Elena López-Riera (Best New Director)It comes from the short films that won awards at prestigious festivals such as Locarno and managed to gain a place on the international stage by participating in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, where his first film ‘El agua’ was screened. . . His style is halfway between documentary and fiction, costume and fantasy, and as he champions the indigenous element, he knows how to make the most of his country, Orihuela, the scene of many of his works.
Nacho Sanchez (Best Actor)The 31-year-old actor from Ciego de Avila gained recognition on stage thanks to ‘La piedra oscura’ written by Alberto Conejero and directed by Pablo Messiez. Completed with Max due to his participation in Iván y los Perros, of which he is the absolute hero. He continued filming from there and was nominated for Best New Actor in series editing for Daniel Sánchez Arévalo’s ‘Seventeen’ and Goya, and was Carlo Padial’s second person in ‘Doctor Portuondo’. He takes on the challenge of playing a young man with pedophilic tendencies in ‘Manticora’.
Diego Anido (Best Supporting Actor)He had been a theatrical creator in avant-garde circles for almost two decades when he was discovered by Rodrigo Sorogoyen to play Luis Zahera’s withdrawn and irritating brother in ‘As Bestas’. He worked for Agrupación Señor Serrano, one of the largest Spanish companies with international projection and won the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale, and produced his own solo shows. He was born in Santiago de Compostela, so the accent in the movie was included. But it was not the director’s first choice, at first he had a very secondary role. When the translator who would portray the character did not come together in the project, it was imposed as the only solution 48 hours after the shooting started. And he knew how to seize the opportunity.
Marie Colomb (Best Supporting Actress)This young French actress is about to explode. He began his professional career just six years ago and last year starred in Les Magnétiques, one of the films that discovered new faces in French cinematography, set in the musical youth rebellion of the eighties, and appeared in television series such as Laëtitia. or the boys’ end, her small role as the daughter of Marina Foïs and Denis Menochet in As Bestas was a major step forward in her nascent but solid career.
Mikel Bustamante (Best New Actor)He was born in Álava and moved to Barcelona to study directing, sound and editing at CECC (Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos de Barcelona) and later to study acting in Madrid, so he knows how to get on both sides of the camera. He has directed short films (such as “Cannibals”) and plays, as well as illusionism and mentalism shows (which he loves), and has his own independent production company, Bedmar Films. His first relevant role as an actor was in the TV series ‘Acacias 38’. His good series would start thanks to ‘La casa de papel’ in which he played Martínez. He became one of Juan Mari Jáuregui’s assassins in ‘Maixabel’ and is now consolidated thanks to his participation in ‘Cinco Lobitos’.
Christian Checa (Best New Actor)It’s hard to stand out in a cast that includes Penélope Cruz and Luis Tosar, but that’s exactly what this 21-year-old man has accomplished, as he started taking his first steps in advertising at the age of 12. Television roles for Claudia Pinto’s participation in the movie ‘Las consecuencias’. He’s confident acting is his thing, and despite the discovery that his intervention in ‘En las margins’ has yet to shoot his next feature film, he’s still trying to combine this job and popularity opportunity with his college education. ‘A long journey’ with Elisabet Gelabert.
Telmo Irureta (Best New Actor)He had suffered from cerebral palsy as a result of encephalitis since he was two years old, but that didn’t stop Gipuzkoa, 33, from his enthusiasm for learning and even laughing at himself with his monologues. She has a Bachelor of Teaching and Pedagogy and is about to start in Psychology, but has also become interested in the world of acting and, at the recommendation of her aunt Elena Irureta (‘Patria’), trained at the San Sebastián Performing Arts Workshop. After starring in the short film ‘Robarte una noche’ with Miren Ibarguren, he got the lead role in ‘The Rite of Spring’, where he plays a young man with cerebral palsy and a sexual right.
Laura Galán (Best New Actress)It has become one of the biggest banners of body positivity in our country. She is 36 years old but that hasn’t stopped her from playing a teenager in the Carlota Pereda movie ‘Cerdita’, whose sympathy and natural talent have made her an anti-bullying icon and an activist against obesity. The director signed him for the short film in which the movie came out, and even though it’s been five years since he played the role, there was no doubt that this naive slasher had to bring the vengeful protagonist Sara to life. … is the absolute protagonist. She has become the mother of a baby who is now 10 months old.
Luna Pamies (Best New Actress)Elena López Riera was clear that the protagonist of El agua must be from the region where the film is set, but it took her a long time to find the right person. He met Luna Pamies in a bottle in San Bartolomé, a district of She orihuela, and asked for her phone number to test. She was then 15 years old, she was studying at the institute, and she had never thought of dedicating herself to cinema. The director was so persistent that he finished the audition and got the part that he had rehearsed for a year. He’s now 18, so the movie has gone through Cannes and San Sebastián, but he continues to live with his mother in his town. Among her many tattoos is one that says ‘water’ with her co-stars.
Valeria Sorolla (Best New Actress)One of the season’s riskiest roles is the girl who hardly speaks in The Rite of Spring, and who will gradually peel off the layers of her armor as she forges a very special relationship with Telmo Irureta’s character. Los protegidos: Although he participated in youth dramas such as El regreso or Paraíso, this is his first hero. He has a music project called Puropedrito and is part of the stage and audiovisual creation collective Matriu. She has also been involved in productions by art director Carlota Guerrero and collaborated with designers such as Paloma Wool or Aurembiaix she. She currently represents Oriol Puig and Estación Rocafort’s Karaoke Eluisa in Madrid, a horror movie set in the Barcelona metro awaits release.
Zoe Stein (Best New Actress)Another of the season’s revelations and one of the new faces of generational change. At the age of 22 came the disturbing role of ‘Mantícora’, in which she plays a young woman who maintains a special relationship with the main character while caring for her ailing father. She had joined ‘Merlí’ before. Sapere Aude’, ‘Att. Monteperdido’ and ‘Kiss in the Air’. Stein lives and plays in Berlin, as his father is German. ‘The Invisible Girl’ is about to premiere for Disney+, a teen series adapting the best-selling Blue Jeans trilogy and in which she is the absolute protagonist with Daniel Grao.
Albert Bosch, Jordi Pujol Dolcet, Anna Otín (Best New Actor)Non-professional actors have also found their place in this edition of Goyas, thanks to their perfectly natural performances in Carla Simón’s ‘Alcarràs’. The director wanted the protagonists to be from the same location, the Lleida region, where they would shoot, so he spent a long time choosing different characters. Albert Bosch is the youngest, 18 years old and thinking. He was a farmer from head to toe and was discovered by Simón dancing at some popular festival. He plays the son of the Solé family. Jordi Pujol plays his father, Quimet, who is worried about losing the land he has tilled because his rightful owner wants to take him back. The lifestyle he advocated has come to an end, and he has found himself in a personal crisis. Like Quimet, Jordi was a farmer, but had to leave the field due to the low price for which the fruit was sold, and is now a brigade member of Sose’s council. The Alcarràs team spotted him during a farmer’s demonstration in Lleida. As for Anna Otin, the head of the clan is a teacher in a kindergarten and works with preschool children. She also teaches aerobics classes, and the casting tests for the movie were held at this very gym, and it was there that Carla noticed. They shot together again in ‘Letter to My Mother’, which was screened at the last Venice Film Festival.