nine Goya awards, The César of French cinema for the best foreign film four Platino awards and two Frames. With this suitcase of recognition as monsters Rodrigo Sorogoyen will arrive in Alicante next Friday. And he will do this to attend a show at the University of Alicante (MUA) Museum at 1:00 pm. Cultural Service Cinema and Audio-Visual Classroom, Selected scenes from the films will be shown and interpreted by the director.
At 7 p.m. Sorogoyen is the XV of the Mayo Negro cycle directed by Mariano Sánchez Soler. Francisco J Ortizdedicated this year Writers in the cinema of Noir and Sorogoyen. Your short film will be shown Mom, He will give a speech about a selection of his films, which were awarded at the Alicante Film Festival in 2017. Entry to both activities is free, depending on the capacity of the rooms.
Film director and screenwriter Rodrigo Sorogoyen He was born in Madrid in 1981. Stockholm (2013). with his next movie, God forgive us (2016) made his debut in the black genre and received critical acclaim from critics and the public.
With Kingdom (2018) was awarded Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the 2019 Goya Awards shared with Isabel Peña, an edition where the film received five more Goya awards in other categories. His latest film in the final edition of the Goya Awards, as monsters, as the absolute hero with nine Goyas, including best picture, best director, best original screenplay, best lead actor, and best supporting actor. Between both works, directed by Sorogoyen film Mom (2019), inspired by his eponymous short film and television mini-series. riot gear (2020).
Black May 2023 Begins
Reaching its XV edition, the Mayo Negro cycle begins on Wednesday 3rd at 7:00 pm at Alicante City Venue (Ramón y Cajal, 4) and lasts one day. real crimes and with the conference Post-Franco Spain’s Criminal HistoryTaught by Mariano Sánchez Soler about his books”ultra long walk” And “a pile of corpses“.
4 Thursday will be the heroes of the day Writers in film noir. Other looks at black type cmeeting the novelists Esther Abellán, Empar Fernández, Marta Prieto and Mónica Rouanet. The third day of the cycle will be devoted to Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Film Noir. This year’s cycle will conclude with its screening on Saturday, the 6th. God forgive usat 10.30 am
writers
esther abellan (Villena, 1971). Poet and actor. Founder of #elabrigoverdeteatro and member of the Matuška Project, a company dedicated to creating multidisciplinary shows. He co-directed the radio poetry program. tied at night and is the editor of the cultural magazine. loblanc. He has five poems published since 2013: remembering what i am, In Venus’s bedroom, crying between caresses, chained love And past in the mouth, together the alliances with the air And 4. no lift; and is the author of the book poets on the bridge of mirrorsinside Researches and anthologizes 21st century poems from Alicante. She made her debut as a novelist in 2023. it was enough.
empar fernandez (Barcelona, 1962). He replaces teaching with writing and is a newspaper columnist and screenwriter for historical documentaries. With her first novel, horace in memory (2000) received the XXV Cáceres Short Novel Award; will follow, among other topics, Crazy for dolls (2007) -IX Fernando Quiñones Unicaja Novel Prize finalist-, sons of defeat (2008), Wound (2009) -Rejadorada Short Novel Award-, deadly lies (2010) or damn truth (2016) -City of Santa Cruz Award for black novels-. He has also written several works with Pablo Bonell Goytisolo, including a series of novels starring inspector Santiago Escalona. Two of his last books save us from evil (2020) and will be our secret (2022).
Martha Prieto (Lion). He graduated from the Faculty of Law, practiced law and worked in Public Administration. After developing short stories and “fictional stories”—that’s how the author describes them—with her first novel, famous (2021) received the Silverio Cañada Memorial Award for best first detective novel by the Black Week of Gijón in 2022, based on the murder of the head of the León Provincial Assembly. She is currently working on her new novel and devoted herself entirely to literary creation.
Monica Rouanet (Alicante, 1970). Degree in Philosophy and Literature specializing in Pedagogy and Psychology. For more than two decades she has devoted herself professionally to caring for people at risk of social exclusion. he is the author Where the streets have no names (2015), wake me Up When September Ends (2019) -one of the best-selling books during the months of isolation-, I don’t hear the children playing (2021) and It is not important (2022). her next novel The way of fireflies.