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‘La función’ won the award for Best Low Budget Film and “Vadio” won the awards for Best Actress, Best Actor and Best Director.
‘Creatura’, filmed in Maresme, has been awarded as best film and best script of the Creative Rosebud section.
‘AveMaria’, by Calella director Pol Mansachs, Audience Award and Best Actress at the Calella Film Festival.
The debut of Calella-born director Pol Mansachs at the Calella Film Festival has been an ageing one. His debut film, ‘AveMaria’, has won two statuettes: the audience award – it was one of the films that filled the hall – and also the best actress award for Daniela Brown.
‘Creatura’, the second film by Elena Martín, partly shot in Maresme, was another of the winners of the Calella film festival, winning the award for best film in the Creative Rosebud section and best screenplay by Elena Martín and Clara Roquet. The filmmaker from Banyoles, Albert Serra, presented the award to Martín in a symbolic ceremony, in which the Catalan director emphasised that ‘Creatura is a project that we have treated with great delicacy’. The film’s producer, Ariadna Dot, stated that ‘most of the filming was done in Maresme, and for the film crew, winning this award at the Maresme Festival is like coming home and ending a cycle’.
The Portuguese film “Vadio ’ won the most awards, all of them also in the Creative Rosebud category: Best Director for Simão Cayatte, Best Actress for Joana Santos and Best Actor for Rúben Simões, who attended the gala and handed himself the wardrobe in a curious moment that the actor himself did not expect. ‘Anómico ‘ closes the awards of the section with the best original screenplay by Andrés Beltrán Nossa.
In the Low Budget category, i.e. films with a budget of less than 500,000 euros, the best film was ‘La función’, Maxim Akbarov won Best Director for ‘Steppe’, Peter Callahan was awarded Best Actor for ‘Out and out’ and Best Screenplay was won by Oscar Montón, Tirso Calero and Begoña Soler for ‘Quan no acaba la nit’.
The jury was headed, as is traditional, by the Calella-born actor Juli Fàbregas, who teamed up with actors, screenwriters, directors and journalists such as Enrique García Atralla, Cristina Clemente, Paul Urkijo Alijo, Cristina Genebat, Marc Angelet, Mar Abascal, Iñaki Miramón, Amparo Larrañaga and Sergi Pompermayer.
The gala ended with the screening of ‘Pacifiction’, the most successful film by Albert Serra, awarded with two César of French cinema.
Source: www.calella.com
