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Platino Award For Best Documentary
The Platino Award for Best Documentary (Spanish: ''Premio Platino al mejor película documental'') is one of the Platino Awards, Ibero-America's film awards, presented by the Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA) and the Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA). It was first presented in 2014, with the Spanish documentary ''Con la pata quebrada'' being the first recipient of the award. Spain holds the record of most wins in the category with six as well as most nominations with twenty-two, with at least one nominated Spanish film each edition. 2021 winner ''The Mole Agent'' also received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In the list below. the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. Awards and nominations 2010s 2020s Awards by nation See also * Goya Award for Best Documentary * Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platino Awards
The Platino Awards, known in Spanish as Premios Platino del Cine Iberoamericano ("Platinum Prizes of Ibero-American Cinema"), are Ibero-America's annual film awards. The awards were established in 2013, and the first awards ceremony took place on 5 April 2014 at the Teatro Anayasi, Panama City. The ceremony continues to take place annually between April and July, and awards are given to films produced during the previous year. The award itself is a platinum figure with the shape of a woman offering the world with Latin America's map on the center, it was created by designer Javier Mariscal. History To reward the best Ibero-American films of each year, the Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA) along with the Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA) decided to create the Platino Awards. The inaugural ceremony took place on 5 April 2014 at the Anayasi theatre in Panama City. The Awards were created as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pearl Button
''The Pearl Button'' ( es, El botón de nácar) is a 2015 Chilean documentary film directed by Patricio Guzmán. It was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for Best Script. It won the Lumières Award for Best Documentary at the 21st Lumières Awards. The filmmaker has described the work as part of a triptych with ''Nostalgia for the Light'' and potentially a third film focusing on the Andes. It explores familiar Guzmán themes such as memory and the historical past, particularly that of history's losers rather than victors, recording some of the last surviving members of the original Alacalufe and Yaghan tribes. A departure for Guzmán is that it does not focus solely on Chile's past under Augusto Pinochet, as the title was partly inspired by a shirt button discovered during a 2004 investigation by Chilean judge Juan Guzmán on a length of rail used to weigh the bodies of Pinochet's victims dumped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dancing Beethoven
''Dancing Beethoven'' is a 2017 documentary film by the Spanish director Arantxa Aguirre. It is about the work of the choreographer Maurice Béjart, founder of the Ballet of the 20th Century and other dance companies. It was released on 13 April 2017 in Germany and on 28 April 2017 in Spain. Shooting took place in Lausanne and Tokyo over nine months. It tells the story of a revival of choreography created by Béjart in the 1960s for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (Beethoven), Ninth Symphony. The performance is given in Tokyo and the dancers are from the Béjart Ballet Lausanne and Tokyo Ballet, accompanied by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zubin Mehta. Cast Awards and nominations ''Dancing Beethoven'' was nominated in the 32nd Goya Awards for Best Documentary Film and for the for Best Documentary Feature although finally won. References External links * {{Authority control Documentary films about ballet Spanish documentary films Swiss documentary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paz Encina
Paz Encina (born July 9, 1971) is a Paraguay, Paraguayan Film director, director and screenwriter, known for her drama film ''Hamaca paraguaya'' (2006), winner of the FIPRESCI Award of the Cannes Film Festival. Biography She was born in Asunción, Paraguay. She studied at the Fundación Universidad del Cine, Universidad del Cine of Buenos Aires, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in cinematography. ''Hamaca paraguaya'' was her first feature film. She previously made short films like ''La siesta'' (1997), ''Los encantos del Jazmín'' (1998) and ''Supe que estabas triste'' (2000). Filmography As director * ''Hamaca paraguaya'' - short film, 2000 * ''Supe que estabas triste'' - 2000 * ''Hamaca paraguaya'' - feature film, 2006 * ''EAMI'' - 2022 As screenwriter * ''Hamaca paraguaya'' - 2000 * ''Supe que estabas triste'' - 2000 * ''Hamaca paraguaya'' - 2006 * ''EAMI'' - 2022 References External links * 1971 births Paraguayan film directors Paraguayan women film direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Salmerón
Gustavo Salmerón García (born August 27, 1970 in Madrid, Spain as Gustavo García Salmerón), is a Spanish actor and writer, known for ''Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle'' (2017), ''Mensaka'' (1998) and '' Asfalto'' (2000). Biography From a very young age he became interested in cinema and began shooting homemade short films with his siblings and was attracted to the arts in general. At the age of eighteen, after finishing high school, he studied for a year in a town near Chicago, where he came into contact with the world of theater at Mount Vernon Drama School. However, his vocation as a painter was stronger and after presenting his drawings he was shortlisted for a scholarship at the prestigious Art Institute in Chicago. But he had returned to Spain for family reasons. Then he registered at the Faculty of Beautiful Arts of Madrid. He regularly attended classes of Theater at the Nicolás Salmerón Cultural Center . They immediately offered him acting jobs in theater and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th Platino Awards
The 5th Platino Awards was presented at Gran Tlachco Theater in Riviera Maya, Mexico on April 29, 2018 to honour the best in Ibero-American films of 2017. The ceremony was televised in Latin America by TNT, and hosted by Mexican actor Eugenio Derbez. ''A Fantastic Woman'' received the most nominations with nine. Winners and nominees The winners and nominees are listed as follows: Honorary Platino * Adriana Barraza Performers References External links Official site{{Platino Awards, state=expanded 5 Platino Awards The Platino Awards, known in Spanish as Premios Platino del Cine Iberoamericano (" Platinum Prizes of Ibero-American Cinema"), are Ibero-America's annual film awards. The awards were established in 2013, and the first awards ceremony took place ... 2018 in Mexico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It All Started At The End
''It All Started at the End'' ( es, Todo comenzó por el fin) is a 2015 Colombian documentary film directed by Luis Ospina. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 13 September 2015 Synopsis In the 1970s and '80s Colombia was characterized by violence from drug cartels to guerilla warfare. During the same period director Luis Ospina and group of filmmakers, artists, and writers gathered in Cali Santiago de Cali (), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,227,642 residents according to the 2018 census. The city spans with of urban area, making Cali the second ... to create an alternative vision of Colombian society. References External links * 2015 documentary films Colombian documentary films {{Colombia-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eryk Rocha
Eryk Rocha (born Erik Aruak Gaítán Rocha, January 19, 1978) is a Brazilian film director, producer, editor, and cinematographer. He is the son of film director Glauber Rocha. Education and early career He studied cinema at the San Antonio de Los Baños School in Cuba, where he produced ''Rocha que voa'' (2002)." It won best film in the É Tudo Verdade International Festival, the CineSul Festival, and the Saul Yelín Choir at the New Latin American Cinema Festival in Havana in 2002. The film also won the title of Best Masterpiece at the Rosário Festival in Argentina in 2003. Filmography As director * '' El Aula Vacía'' (2015) co-director with 10 others; documentary produced by Gael García Bernal Gael García Bernal (; born 30 November 1978) is a Mexican actor and producer. He is best known for his performances in the films '' Bad Education'', '' The Motorcycle Diaries'', ''Amores perros'', ''Y tu mamá también'', ''Babel'', '' Coco'', ... * '' Campo de Jogo'' (2014) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4th Platino Awards
The 4th Platino Awards was presented at Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain on July 22, 2017, to honour the best in Ibero-American films of 2016. ''A Monster Calls'' received the most nominations with seven. Winners and nominees Major awards Honorary Platino * Edward James Olmos Films with multiple nominations and awards The following films received multiple nominations: References External links Official site{{Platino Awards, state=expanded 3 Platino Awards The Platino Awards, known in Spanish as Premios Platino del Cine Iberoamericano (" Platinum Prizes of Ibero-American Cinema"), are Ibero-America's annual film awards. The awards were established in 2013, and the first awards ceremony took place ... 2017 in Madrid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maite Alberdi
Maite Alberdi Soto (born 29 March 1983, Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean film producer, director, documentarian, screenwriter, and film critic. Her film ''The Mole Agent'' (2020) was an Academy Awards nominee for Best Documentary and a contender for Best International Feature. The film was also a nominee at the Goya Awards for Best Iberoamerican Film. She is the founder of Micromundo Producciones. Career She is the Audiovisual Director of the Pontificial Catholic University of Chile, and teaches documentary directing at several universities. Her works as a film critic have been published on the sitLa Fuga a film studies magazine founded in 2005 in Santiago, Chile, with the intent to "open a field of debate and academic reflection, producing and disseminating unpublished material of interest for the cinematographic cultural field." She co-authored a book,''Teorías del cine documental en Chile: 1957-1973'' She was invited as a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Álvaro Longoria
Álvaro Longoria (born 1968 in Santander, Cantabria, Spain) is a film director, executive producer, and actor. He produces indie films for several distributors including Cinema Libre and Morena Films. He is perhaps best known for producing the film ''Everybody Knows'' directed by Asghar Farhadi and ''Che'' starring Benicio Del Toro and directed by Steven Soderbergh as well as '' Looking for Fidel'' directed by Oliver Stone. He won a Goya Award for Best Documentary Film for '' Hijos de las Nubes'', a story about the decolonization of the Sahara region of western Africa, starring Javier Bardem Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (; born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. Known for his roles in Blockbuster (entertainment), blockbusters and foreign films, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the psychopath, .... He received the Cinema for Peace International Green Film Award in 2020 for his film Sanctuary, and the Award for Justice in 2019. Filmogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Propaganda Game
''The Propaganda Game'' is a 2015 documentary film about North Korea by director Álvaro Longoria. It was described by ''The Hollywood Reporter'' as an "effectively a well-mounted video diary of his short visit to the country" and "inevitably intriguing because of its subject". The film had its world premiere at the September 2015 San Sebastián International Film Festival, and was nominated for the award for Best Documentary Film at the 30th Goya Awards. Production Longoria was permitted to film high-quality footage within the country, his visit facilitated and monitored by Alejandro Cao de Benós, the Spanish founder of the Korean Friendship Association who himself becomes a subject of the documentary. The film, which includes interviews as well as archival and contemporary news footage, attempts to describe the nation's social realities with particular attention to media manipulation by the DPRK government, while also questioning the simplifications and caricatures about North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
