The Platinum Awards Xcaret of Ibero-American Cinema will announce the winners of its seventh edition this Monday at 12 noon in Argentina, through a virtual announcement by the YouTube channel of these awards. Promoted by the Audiovisual Producers Rights Management Entity (Egeda), together with the Ibero-American Federation of Film and Audiovisual Producers (Fipca) and with the support of the Ibero-American Film Academies and Institutes, the Platinum remained without a gala ceremony due to the coronavirus pandemic. As the gala, scheduled for May 3 at the Gran Tlachco Theater in Xcaret (Riviera Maya), could not be held, the organization considered it vitally important to maintain its recognition of the talent and the Latin American audiovisual industry.
The announcement will be moderated by the Platinum ambassador, CNN journalist Juan Carlos Arciniegas, and each award will be announced by the presenters chosen to conduct this seventh edition: Mexican actor and humorist Omar Chaparro, and Colombian actress and singer Májida Issa.
Among the Argentine finalists are Ricardo Darín, by The odyssey of the giles, in the category of Best Male Interpretation; Graciela Borges, by The Tale of Weasels, in the category Best Female Interpretation, and Juan José Campanella, by The story…, as director. And in the Miniseries category there are several nominations. Jorge Roman, by Monsoon, competes in the category of Best Male Performance in a Miniseries, and Florencia Raggi for the same series in Best Female Supporting Acting. Also the Argentine Gerardo Romano is nominated for The marginal III, in Best Male Cast Performance, while in the same category, but for Monsoon, Gustavo Garzón aspire to Platinum.
Spanish cinema is a major protagonist in this edition. The Spanish The infinite trench, directed by Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi and Jose Mari Goenaga got eight nominations, followed by Pain and glory, by Pedro Almodóvar, and While the war lasts, by Alejandro Amenábar, with seven. This has been decided by an international jury, made up of 112 prominent members of the Ibero-American film and audiovisual industry.
Pain and glory and The infinite trench compete for Platinum for Best Ibero-American Fiction Film with The invisible life (Brazil), directed by Karim Aïnouz, y Jumpsuits (Colombia, Argentina and Uruguay), directed by Alejandro Landes. In addition, Garaño, Arregi and Goenaga and Pedro Almodovar They are also finalists in the Best Direction category, in which they share a nomination with Alejandro Amenábar (While the war lasts) and Campanella (The Tale of Weasels.
Antonio Banderas (Pain and glory), Antonio de la Torre (The infinite trench), Karra Elejalde (While the war lasts), and Darín (The Odyssey of the Giles) They are the actors nominated in the Best Male Performance category. Meanwhile, in the Best Female Performance Belén Cuesta (The infinite trench), Carol Duarte (The invisible life), Graciela Borges (The Tale of Weasels), and Ilse Salas, for Girls fine.
For the Platinum Award for Cinema and Values Education they compete Spider (Chile, Argentina, Brazil) by Andrés Wood; Seventeen (Spain), by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo; Elisa and Marcela (Spain), by Isabel Coixet, and The awakening of the antsby Antonella Sudasassi. In Animation they were chosen as favorites The city of pirates (Brazil), Buñuel in the turtle maze (Spain), Elcano and Magallanes, the first round the world (Spain) and Klaus (Spain).
For its part, the co-production between Costa Rica and Spain, The awakening of the ants, the Mexican The chambermaid, and the Spanish The daughter of a thief and Advantages of traveling by train they are the finalists for the Best Ibero-American Fiction First Film. And the documentaries that will compete for the award are Ara Malikian, a life between the ropes (Spain), Vertigo democracy (Brazil), Picture (Spain) e Stories of our cinema (Spain).
Spanish production The paper house and Argentina Monsoon are favorites in the categories of series, with four nominations each, followed by the Mexican The flower house, with three. The first two, along with Wild district and The marginal III They are the finalists for Best Miniseries or Ibero-American Cinematographic Teleseries.
Spanish actors Álvaro Morte (The paper house), Javier Cámara (Vote Juan), Oscar Jaenada (the Mexican Hernán), and the Argentine Jorge Román, for Monsoon, compete in the category of Best Male Performance in a Miniseries or TV Series. Candela Peña (Iron), Cecilia Suárez (The flower house), Leticia Dolera (Perfect life) and Úrsula Corberó, for The paper house, they do it in the female category.
This year, the Platinum Awards will recognize series casting performances for the first time. Opening the category are finalists Christian Tappan (Wild district), Gerardo Romano (The marginal III), Gustavo Garzón (Monsoon) and Juan Pablo Medina (The flower house), all in the category Best Male Cast Performance. In the case of Female Interpretation of Cast in Series Alba Flores compete (The paper house), Belén Cuesta (Paquita Salas), Florencia Raggi (Monsoon) and Mariana Treviño (The flower house).
Since its first edition in 2014, the Xcaret Platinum Awards for Ibero-American Cinema have brought together the great talents of the cinematographies of the 23 Ibero-American countries, praising the productions and the most outstanding creators of each year with nineteen awards.
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