Judith Colell on her successful movie on the Gaudí Awards: “I never know nor do I ever have to know who wins” | News from Catalonia | EUROtoday

The awards obtained by director Judith Colell on the final Gaudí gala have generated controversy because of the truth that she is, on the identical time, president of the Catalan Film Academy, the organizing entity of the movie awards. Colell has assured that he maintains his distance from the decision. “I never know, nor do I have to know, who wins the Gaudí awards,” he defended in an interview with More Night from TV3.

Colell arrived on the Gaudí Awards with eight nominations for his movie Fronteraand thriller historic story about those that helped Jews escaping Nazi repression within the Pyrenees. The movie gained the award for greatest Catalan-speaking movie, the viewers award, costume award (Mercè Paloma) and greatest supporting actress award for Bruna Cusí.

The president of the Academy has burdened that she doesn’t need to know who is aware of the winners both. “I want to stay out of everything.” Likewise, concerning the controversy, he assures that it’s a debate “tired of listening to” and emphasizes that we should understand how teachers work and that within the awards “there is no jury, academics vote”, that’s, greater than 600 folks, “who vote for what they want.” Furthermore, he added that the candidates don’t ask for a vote.

The vote of 640 teachers

To be an instructional and to have the ability to vote for the Gaudís, it’s essential to be an expert within the audiovisual sector with a acknowledged profession within the Catalan business. In addition to employees within the sector, the Academy consists of former nominees and founding members. In the final version of the awards, 640 teachers voted.

Voting follows a course of structured in a number of phases. After submitting the movies to totally different candidates, a primary spherical of voting takes place, often in November, the place teachers vote to pick out the ultimate candidates. The announcement of nominees often happens in mid-December and, from there, a second spherical of voting is activated to decide on the winners. The total course of is supervised by a notary.

Frontera Judith Colell’s movie gained the most effective movie award in opposition to have breakfast with meby Iván Morales; unusual riverby Jaume Claret Muxart; very far-offde Gerard Oms y Wolfgangby Javier Ruiz Caldera. It additionally gained the viewers award, for which viewers vote via the Academy’s web site. In these Gaudí there have been 16 movies competing in that class along with Frontera, amongst them field workplace phenomena in Catalan reminiscent of Wolfgang, con greater than three million euros in assortment, or others in a non-Catalan language reminiscent of Sirâtwith virtually three million euros in assortment, or Pilgrimagewith 1.7 million raised. Colell’s manufacturing continues to have a number of lively showings within the Texas and Girona cinemas in Barcelona and in mid-January, in its fifth week on the invoice, it had a cumulative whole of 376,000 euros with twenty prints in circulation.

Regarding the voting system within the viewers award, the Catalan Film Academy defends that it’s the traditional one in these open participation processes and that it really works “through a platform protected against multiple voting from the same IP, so that each vote corresponds to a different person, and the result is certified by a notary.” The entity assures that the marketing campaign that the movies perform within the digital surroundings to mobilize the general public and, subsequently, to encourage their vote is vital right here. “It is a bet that each production company decides with what intensity they do,” they clarify from the Academy.