Eva Soriano: “It’s hard to reach many people who make humor”

“I was very excited but does that mean you don’t want me to come back anymore when I go backstage,” I asked the comedian at a press conference in Can Ventosa after the event in Nassau Beach yesterday morning. Club Ibiza is at Platja d’en Bossa. Escribano underlined that Soriano already has a fan club on the island because every edition has people coming to the red carpet for him. “As Cayetana said, this award never ends. [Guillén Cuervo]recognition of the effort of an entire career. You still went, but you didn’t start yesterday,” the festival director added, addressing the comedian.

Comedy, minor genre?

The winner appreciated the importance of taking into account and making visible those who made the humor of Ibicine: “Comedy is considered a secondary genre. It gives me the feeling that people just don’t find it attractive enough to present it to a festival because dramas seem to always win and the roles that shine the most are the dramatic ones.” In this sense, Eva Soriano jokingly said, “It’s much harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry like anyone else can. ”: “It is very difficult to reach a large number of people by making humor, because it is a very subjective thing ».

Helher Escribano, who also attended the colloquium on this subject, explained that paradoxically, the pandemic has “revived” the comedy genre: “I think we were all watching comedy back then, because everything was a drama.” In fact, he said it was hard for bits of humor to get into Ibicine in the years before covid. The proof of this resurrection is the Astarte Awards themselves. In this sixth edition, the best fiction short film (‘Tula’, produced by Csc Films and Extrapictures) is a comedy and also the short film in which the winner of the best actor award (José Dault for ‘Parlez-vous?’) appears.

Astarte’s host was delighted by the distinction: “I’m so excited for the awards.” Despite the participation of Miquel Costa, Director of Insular Culture, the press conference was informal because Soriano jokes next: “Another thing is to see how I will hand over the award to Madrid, because I think it is a weapon. white. I miss a plane with an Astarte. Not at all, just to tell a few jokes.

On the other hand, he said he grew up “very parallel to Ibicine” and added, looking at Escribano: “I told you a while ago that I would keep coming to Ibicine until you got tired. It’s not about coming to work for me. I came to see my friends, I had fun and had a lot of fun. »: «Now I am arriving in Madrid, I take in some CO2 and say, ‘It makes up for the four days I spent in Eivissa.’ He even expressed his desire to settle in this festival.

Best Short Editing

The actor made statements to the press after this action. Tamara Berbés, protagonist of ‘Tula’ by Beatriz de Silva, winner of the Astarte Award for Best Short Fiction: “I was so excited. I never expected to go out to receive the award, I was completely relaxed in my seat ». In this story, Tula is a high school cleaner who develops a relationship with a teenager who has a daughter who says she is pregnant with the principal. Despite the tenderness of the situation, it is handled with humor: «The drama seems to be worth a lot. It is given and should be valued, but I think it is important to look for topics from comedy because I think How they will reach a certain audience that may not go to watch a TV series,” the actress commented, “Let’s use this as a communication tool on social and important issues.

sex education

In this sense, Berbés spoke of Beatriz de Silva’s script: “Very concise, there are two actors, one gap and 12 linear minutes. There are no jumps, it expresses a very specific idea and does not just end in the summary. From the first approach, there are many distortions that lead us to a much bigger problem, namely the lack of sex education.

Short, an art in itself

On the other hand, in his conversation with the media, Berbés commented that it is essential for the short film to be taken into account in the world of cinema: «The short seems to be something specific to people rehearsing to make a movie, and it isn’t. There are very good scenarios of 12-20 minutes and there should be festivals to support them., for the issue of economics and visibility ». He also highlighted the amount of people he managed to capture in Eivissa and elsewhere.

For this reason, he argued that the short film world should have a little more projection. mainstream. Tamara Berbés added that this is a good example of the ‘Versión Española’ presented by Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, implying that more platforms are buying short films, that there are short film cycles in major theaters, and that this format is getting more coverage in television shows. , this year the Astarte Honorary Award for the popularization of Spanish cinema.

The actress from “Tula” emphasized the great difficulty of “knowing how to tell a good story in 12 or 15 minutes”, saying: “It seems very fancy to me to achieve this.”

Best Short Documentary

Also yesterday, a public podcast was held in Nassau (first episode of the Ibicine podcast episode, produced by IB3 Ràdio), in which Escribano, Soriano, Berbés and also Alberto Utrera, director of ‘Sembrando el futuro’, won the Astarte Award for Best Short Documentary Film. This study, led by the Roca brothers from Celler de Can Roca, describes the threat posed by biodiversity loss in crops from a worldwide trip. Utrera highlighted the importance of chefs in raising awareness and thus promoting the consumption of local and seasonal produce to help reduce the environmental impact: “The role of chefs is to use local and seasonal produce or near-extinct products in their recipes. Encourage their use. These are the speakers that enable the food to be consumed again.

The director thanked the Ibicine team for the award and stressed the importance of having this type of festival that “provides visibility to other narrative and message genres”.