ESCACʼs graduates, candidates for receiving the Goya and Gaudí Awards

The graduates nominations to Goya and Gaudí awards confirm that the ESCAC is the cradle of Catalan and Spanish cinema industry.
The graduates nominations to Goya and Gaudí awards confirm that the ESCAC is the cradle of Catalan and Spanish cinema industry.
(21/01/2013)

The nominations to the Goya Awards and the Gaudí Awards have been made public. These awards recognise the best films and professionals of Spanish and Catalan cinema. Once more, the role of the Catalan Centre for Advanced Studies in Cinema and Audiovisual Media (ESCAC), affiliated centre with the University of Barcelona, will be outstanding because several ESCACʼs graduates are candidates for the awards that the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences and the Catalan Film Academy will give next February.

The graduates nominations to Goya and Gaudí awards confirm that the ESCAC is the cradle of Catalan and Spanish cinema industry.
The graduates nominations to Goya and Gaudí awards confirm that the ESCAC is the cradle of Catalan and Spanish cinema industry.
21/01/2013

The nominations to the Goya Awards and the Gaudí Awards have been made public. These awards recognise the best films and professionals of Spanish and Catalan cinema. Once more, the role of the Catalan Centre for Advanced Studies in Cinema and Audiovisual Media (ESCAC), affiliated centre with the University of Barcelona, will be outstanding because several ESCACʼs graduates are candidates for the awards that the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences and the Catalan Film Academy will give next February.

 
The Impossible, the latest work of the director Juan Antonio Bayona, former student of the ESCAC, has fourteen nominations to the Goya Awards 2013; for example, he is candidate for the best film and for the best director. Moreover, the film crew, mainly composed by professionals from the ESCAC, received also several nominations: Elena Ruiz and Bernat Vilaplana are among the candidates for the best editing; Óscar Faura, for the best photography, and Oriol Tarragó, for the best sound. All of them, Bayona included, received the same nominations to the 5th Gaudí Awards for Catalan films. The Impossible has six nominations; one of them is to the best European film.
 
Other ESCAC graduates candidates are, on one hand, Gemma Fauria, which got a nomination to receive the Gaudí Award for the best art direction for [REC]3 Génesis: and on the other hand, Bernat Vilaplana and David Gallart, who compete for the best editing award for El bosc and [REC]3 Génesis, respectively. Finally, Àlex Villagrasa is among the candidates to receive the best special effects awards for [REC]3 Génesis.
 
Furthermore, Pablo Larcuen, who is also a ESCAC former student, has a nomination to receive the Gaudí Award for the best short film for his production Elefante. This project, produced by Escándalo Films and written and directed by Larcuen, got the award for the best short film of the Official Fantastic Competition Shorts section in the 2012 Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival.
 
All these ESCAC graduates nominations to the Goya and Gaudí Awards recognise the work performed in the Centre, which, in eighteen years of history, has become an excellence reference in educating emerging figures in cinema arts: young and prestigious professionals who contribute, with their work, to increase the prestige and the artistic and technical quality of Catalan and Spanish cinema.