Director Fernando Méndez-Leite is the new president of the film academy after winning the elections in the General Assembly that has just been held by achieving 348 votes of the 820 academics who have exercised their right. They complete the presidential list with Rafael Portela (from the production school) and Susan Sanchez (interpretation). That means that the Aragonese actress Luisa Gavasa Finally, he will not be the second Aragonese person to hold the position (after José Luis Borau) as he did not receive the majority support of the assembly.
The electoral process has had a very high participation, in relation to the previous process of June 2018, when 353 academics exercised their right to vote. The short list formed by Mariano Barroso, Rafael Portela and Nora Navas, the only candidate, was the one that received the most support received so far in Academy history with 315 votes.
Academics have been able to exercise their vote personally, online or by correspondence. The former have appeared at the entity’s headquarters to participate in the General Assembly, a meeting in which members from Barcelona, Valencia, Seville and Malaga have been able to intervene via videoconference. The Electoral table It was made up of the notary Eva María Fernández Medina, in addition to Ana Amigo, Sol Carnicero, Tote Trenas and David Rodríguez, members of the Electoral Commission.
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Méndez-Leite es film, television and theater director and screenwriter, writer, professor and film critic, Méndez-Leite was born in Madrid on May 6, 1944. He has been director of the Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA); of the School of Cinematography and Audiovisual of the Community of Madrid (ECAM), and also directed the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA).
Graduated in Law in 1968, he was unable to finish his studies at the Official Film School because they fired him for participating in a strike; After working for many years at TVE, he made several films and plays and began to work as a critic. He was a university professor and has been a member of the Malaga Festival’s management committee since its creation in 1997.
He has written books like History of Spanish cinema in one hundred films (1985) y Argentina in Spanish cinema, and he is a couple of the actress Fiorella Faltoyano, with whom he has a daughter, Clara, who runs an acting school with his partner, also an actor Alberto Amman.
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