ESCAC graduate Belén Funes receives Goya to best novel direction
Belén Funes keeps receiving awards. On Saturday, the graduate from the University School of Cinema and Visual Communication of Catalonia (ESCAC) -affiliated at the UB- won the Goya to the best novel direction for La hija de un ladrón, her opera prima. The award came a week after receiving three awards in Gaudí Awards: to the best non-Catalan Language film, the best direction and the best script (signed by Funes with Marçal Cebrian, also ESCAC graduate).
Played by Geta Fernández (also nominated to the Goya to the best main character) and her father in real life, the actor Eduard Fernández, the film results from the work by other graduates of the School: Neus Ollé, as photohraphy director; Enrique G. Bermejo as sound designer, and a representation of former students in all departments.
Belén Funesʼ award is the fourth Goya Award to the best novel direction given to an ESCAC graduate, after those awarded to Juan Antonio Bayona in 2008 for El Orfanato, Mar Coll in 2010 for Tres días con la familia, and Kike Maíllo in 2012 for Eva.
With this award, ESCAC graduates gather more than forty nominations and twenty-three Goya Awards over the 34 editions of these prizes given by the The Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain.
Belén Funes keeps receiving awards. On Saturday, the graduate from the University School of Cinema and Visual Communication of Catalonia (ESCAC) -affiliated at the UB- won the Goya to the best novel direction for La hija de un ladrón, her opera prima. The award came a week after receiving three awards in Gaudí Awards: to the best non-Catalan Language film, the best direction and the best script (signed by Funes with Marçal Cebrian, also ESCAC graduate).
Played by Geta Fernández (also nominated to the Goya to the best main character) and her father in real life, the actor Eduard Fernández, the film results from the work by other graduates of the School: Neus Ollé, as photohraphy director; Enrique G. Bermejo as sound designer, and a representation of former students in all departments.
Belén Funesʼ award is the fourth Goya Award to the best novel direction given to an ESCAC graduate, after those awarded to Juan Antonio Bayona in 2008 for El Orfanato, Mar Coll in 2010 for Tres días con la familia, and Kike Maíllo in 2012 for Eva.
With this award, ESCAC graduates gather more than forty nominations and twenty-three Goya Awards over the 34 editions of these prizes given by the The Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain.