Juan Antonio Bayona won the Goya Award for best direction for the film ‘The Snow Society’, about the weather tragedy in the Andes Mountains in 1972.
This is the fourth Goya he has won as a director in his career. While he received the best new director award with his first film ‘Orphanage’ (2007), he also won two awards in the best director category with ‘Impossible’ (2012) and ‘A Monster is Coming to See Me’ (2016).
I liked this this year Víctor Erice’s rivals nominated for ‘Close your eyes’; Elena Martín for ‘creature’; David Trueba for ‘They Know It’ and Isabel Coixet for ‘Un amor’.
Adapted from Pablo Vierci’s book of the same name, ‘The Snow Society’ tells the testimonies of the 16 survivors of the plane crash that crashed in the Andes Mountains on October 13, 1972, carrying a rugby team from Montevideo to Paris. Chile.
Of its 45 residents, 12 died as a result of the crash, and the other 17 did not survive the harsh weather conditions, lack of food, and injuries during the 72 days it took to rescue them.
The movie marks his comeback Bayona was translated into Spanish fifteen years after “The Orphanage” (2007).
In his speech, Bayona assured that the film industry in Spain needs a “consistent and strong audience” because it is “not in a good time” despite the fact that so much talent is being brought into play with “less resources”.
“We need a strong industry that allows us to have the resources,” he said, which he shared with the entire public and thanked Netflix for betting on this project, which reached 150 million viewers on this platform and 450,000 to 450,000 movie theaters.
A movie inside “Spanish is spoken” Bayona underlined that he was “on the road” to “fight” to be in movie theaters.
In his speech, Bayona thanked the Film Academy for awarding this film the Oscar and shared the award with Argentina and Uruguay, and said, “I hope we receive this award on behalf of everyone.”
Likewise, when he went to collect the Goya award for best film for ‘The Snow Society’, he expressed with emotion that he felt part of the Spanish cinema family, because when he came out it looked like he was “entering from behind”. door.” “, but while he’s here, There is a feeling that he is “playing in another league” and he denies it.
“I am very proud to be a part of this family. I am happy to make this effort. This is yours (the reward). Let’s work together and cooperate, because together we can achieve everything we want,” Bayona added.