Valérie Delpierre is a

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-born film producer whose career has been in and around Spain . She produces films from her company Inicia Films. One of the films she produced took three

Gaudí Awards The Gaudí Awards () are the main film awards of Catalonia, celebrated annually in Barcelona. The awards were established in 2009 by the Catalan Film Academy as a continuation and expansion of the Barcelona Cinema Awards (''Premis Barcelona de Ci ...

for Best Film in a Non-Catalan Language, best novel Director and best Cinematography for

20,000 Species of Bees ''20,000 Species of Bees'' () is a 2023 Spanish Drama (film and television), drama film written and directed by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren in her debut feature. It stars Sofía Otero, Patricia López Arnaiz, Ane Gabarain, and Itziar Lazkano. ...

in 2024.

Life

Delpierre was born in

. She studied in Nice and at

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and at the

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with an Erasmus scholarship (in International Relations). She started working in Spain teaching French before she was offered a job in the film industry. In 2006 she founded her own company, Inicia Films., which has created a range of films in terms of fact or fiction and language. She produced a first film, B, by

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which won a 2016 Feroz Especial Award. Another debut film was

Summer 1993 ''Summer 1993'' () is a 2017 Catalan language, Catalan-language Spanish Drama (film and television), drama film directed and written by Carla Simón. The film premiered in the Generation section at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival, wh ...

. This was directed by

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and released in 2017. The film had been conceived by Simon while she was at the

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. She contacted Delpierre because she was in Spain and her proposed film was to be Catalan and set in Catalonia. The film was created with mainly non-professionals. Delpierre worked in 2020 with the director Pilar Palomero on the film ''Las Niñas'' ( Schoolgirls). Two years later film the Aragonese film ''La Maternal'' (

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) was again directed by Palomero and the actors were not professionals because Palomero had found a group of girls who already had the complicity she wanted between the actors in the film. ''

'' by

Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren (born 4 May 1984) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, and producer. She has won awards for ''Voces de papel'' (2016), a Documentary film, documentary, and (2022), a short film, while her first feature film, ...

was winner of the Best First Feature at the Berlinale and winner of three

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and four Feroz Awards. It also received a

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for Best Leading Performance for

Sofía Otero Sofía Otero Labrador (born 31 March 2013) is a Spanish child actress, who played a starring role in her film debut in ''20,000 Species of Bees''. The film won her the 2023 Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance at the 73rd Berlin Internation ...

at the Berlin Festival, the Biznagas for Best Film and Best Supporting Actress ( Patricia López Arnaiz ) at the Málaga Festival, and in At the 2024 Feroz Awards, it was highlighted as best dramatic film and López Arnaiz collected her third Feroz as best supporting actress.

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had led the

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and Delpierre was on the board. In 2022 there was an election to find a successor to Barroso. The four candidates were actor

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, cinematographer Teresa Medina, Fernando Méndez-Leite and Delpierre. The academaticians chose

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Awards include

* 2017 Woman of the Year Award from the Fotogramas de Plata. * 2018 Included in the list of Screen International's emerging producers * 2021 Winner of the Feroz Award for Best Drama Film for Pilar Palomero's Schoolgirls, shared with Alex Lafuente * 2023 Included among "The 40 most influential women in international cinema" by the American publication The Hollywood Reporter. * 2024 Winner of the Feroz Award for Best Drama Film for

by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, shared with Lara Izagirre * 2024 Winner of the

for Best Film in a Non-Catalan Language, best new director and best cinematography for 20,000 Species of Bees, shared with Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren and Lara Izagirre; and Best Short Film for El bus, shared with Sandra Reina, Francisco Menchón and Jaume Fargas i Coll.

References

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