this Valencia City Council He will hold a conference in Los Angeles on June 11 and 12 to commemorate his journey. Luis Garcia Berlanga in the city of California on the occasion of his participation in the 34th Oscar ceremony, in which the filmDo notIt competed in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
This tribute will remember the journey of the Valencian filmmaker, where Spain lived in the midst of a dictatorship. In addition to the estimates andThe event will include the placement of a symbolic star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. and a gastronomic experience in paella.
The conference will close the events of the Year of Berlanga to coincide exactly with the filmmaker’s birthday on June 12. “There is no better way to honor the most universal Valencian director figure than to celebrate a full-fledged Berlangian party in the heart of Hollywood,” says the Deputy Mayor and Member of the Urban Development Council. Sandra Gomez.
Berlanga visited Los Angeles on April 5, 1962 to attend the 34th Oscar ceremony with producer Alfredo Matas and actress Amparo Soler. Organized by the Valencia Cultural Point and the Ultramarino Cultural Laboratory, the conference will feature screenings and events to remember the route of this almost unknown journey.
Documents and images of the most important moments of that journey will be exhibited.: nomination, reception in the United States or the presence of stars like Jane Mansfield and Angie Dickinson, a stay at the Beverly Hills Hotel, or cocktails and receptions where Berlanga coincided with names like King Vidor, William Wyler, Billy Wilder, Frank Capra or Fred Zinneman. The development of the 34th edition of the Oscar ceremony, the subsequent agape, and his trip to Spain will also be remembered.
Event ‘Berlanga in Hollywood‘ will thus serve to commemorate a filmmaker’s journey to reach one of the highest peaks he can reach: the Hollywood Academy recognition for his work.