The Awakening will be open at: Barcelona Funeral Home until 12 noon. Tomorrow, Wednesday, a funeral ceremony will be held in memory of the Barcelona film director, producer and screenwriter.
Filmoteca de Catalunya announced that it paid tribute to the director of the film after his death. “Ocaña, spaced portrait”, The Catalan Cinema Academy, which awarded Pons the Gaudí Honor Award in 2015, also plans to commemorate Pons at the next edition of the Gaudí Awards gala.
Figures from the cultural and political world expressed their awareness of the importance of Ventura Pons in the context of Catalan cinema.
Generalitat president Pere Aragonés claimed that Ventura Pons was a “unique, original, extreme and determined” director who was “the greatest representative and great advocate of cinema in Catalan, ensuring that the language reached everywhere.”
Culture Minister Ernest Urtasun said the director “depicted the city of Barcelona in a way like no other and Took films shot in Catalonia to major international festivals” and emphasized his “firm commitment to auteur cinema.”
In the last few hours, institutions such as the Spanish Film Academy, the Spanish Film Library, Òmnium Culture, SGAE, where he is the director, and the Film television platform, have also joined this definition.