
Ad n Aliaga and Alfonso Amador won the SGAE Prize Guion Julio Alejandro 2016 The authors rise with the award for his work Fire and Ice. The other two finalists scripts have been Carmen and Lola by Arantxa Echevarria and Merckx Oca a, Alfonso Santos.
Ice and Fire, Adam Aliaga (Alicante, 1969) and Alfonso Amador (Madrid, 1968) has won the XIII SGAE Prize Guion Julio Alejandro, who organizes the SGAE Foundation, which has made public the decision today Wednesday, November 30. The authors thus obtained the prize endowed with 25,000 euros, which aims to promote the production of audiovisual content and enhance the quality of film literature.
Nos hab amos presentado muchas veces, tanto en conjunto como por separado, pero nunca hubo suerte. Estamos muy contentos por haber ganado uno de los premios m s importantes de Espa a. Esperamos que nos abra puertas para encontrar financiaci n: que alguna productora y las televisiones se interesen por el proyecto , manifiestan Ad n Aliaga y Alfonso Amador.
In Ice and Fire, Isa es una inmigrante espa ola en Estados Unidos que estudia interpretaci n en Nueva York. ltimamente las cosas no van bien. Su comportamiento autodestructivo est convirtiendo su sue o de ser actriz en una pesadilla de la que no puede escapar. Es incapaz de gestionar sus emociones, sin saber que detr s de ese comportamiento inexplicable se esconde un trastorno l mite de personalidad.
American indie influence
La idea de escribir este guion surgi mientras Ad n estaba haciendo el casting en Nueva York para su cortometraje The Walker. All conoci a muchos actores y actrices espa oles que hab an dejado todo y se hab an ido all persiguiendo su sue o , explica Alfonso Amador. Por su parte, Ad n Aliaga a ade que nos hemos dejado poseer un poco por el esp ritu del cine indie americano desde John Cassavetes hasta Noah Baumbach .
La trayectoria profesional de Ad n Aliaga ha sido reconocida en el circuito internacional de festivales. Sus seis largometrajes han sido premiados en la Seminci, el Festival de Cine de M laga o el Festival PNR de Madrid as como en encuentros audiovisuales de ciudades como Chicago, Miami, Taiw n o Toronto. Por su parte, el trabajo del director y guionista Alfonso Amador tambi n ha sido aplaudido en todo el mundo. Entre sus pel culas: El presente (Premio Villa de Madrid 1995), 9,8 m/s2 (Selecci n Oficial Festival de Cannes 1998), Todo lo que necesitas para hacer una pel cula (Mejor Pel cula Festival de Vitoria 2002) o 50 d as de mayo (ensayo para una revoluci n) (Caracola Alcances Mejor Largometraje Documental 2012).
Two mentions of honor
In addition to Ice and Fire, Adam Aliaga and Alfonso Amador, the other two finalists scripts have been Carmen and Lola, Arantxa Echevarria (Bilbao, 1968) and Merckx Oca a, Alfonso Santos (Madrid, 1976), awarded two honorable mentions of $ 3,000. In this edition of 2016 there have been a total of 228 works from Spain and Latin America.
El jurado del XIII Premio SGAE de Guion Julio Alejandro ha estado formado por los cineastas Daniela Fejerman (en representaci n de Asociaci n de Mujeres Cineastas y de Medios Audiovisuales -CIMA-), Silvia Munt, Sigfrid Monle n e Imanol Uribe; los guionistas Rodolf Giner (en representaci n de FAGA -Foro de Asociaciones de Guionistas Audiovisuales-), Alberto Mac as y David Planell (en representaci n de ALMA -Sindicato de Guionistas de Espa a-); y la productora Teresa Fern ndez Cuesta.
A key figure and unknown
The Foundation SGAE claimed this award figure of the Aragonese writer Julio Alejandro, a character little known among the general public but decisive responsible for works in the history of Spanish cinema. Closely linked for much of his professional career filmmaker Luis Bu uel, pen Alejandro signed texts Tristana and ViridianaAs well as other early projects Bu uel in Mexico of the thirties. Julio Alejandro (Huesca, 1906 - Denia, 1995) highlighted as screenwriter and playwright in Latin America (Mexico and Argentina, especially) and Spain.
Winners in previous screenplays
Some of them works winners of others years is have premiered on the big screen. Such is the case of Shitty (Litmus Films), directed by Ana Diez on the text award-winning from Ricardo Fernandez white; of All have a plan (Haddock Films), Ana Piterbarg, which led to film the script with which proclaimed winner in the V edition; from Orange honey (Alta Films), script Andalusian Remedios Crespo who won the Julio Alejandro SGAE Prize VI in 2009, and was filmed by Imanol Uribe; When the horse learned to cryEstablishing the Mexican Jano Mendoza won the SGAE VIII Guion Julio Alejandro Award for Feature Film in 2011 and opened in 2015 under the title Them absent. In addition, another work which won this award was released last year: the companion, Cuban Pavel Giroud script, winner in 2010.
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