Eva Longoria, actress, producer, and director, and one of the most representative faces of the Latino community in the audiovisual industry, received the Platinum Honor at the 12th edition of the awards presented on Sunday in Madrid.
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“Since I started my career in Hollywood in 1998, I have had the dream of proudly representing my roots and honoring Hispanic women in particular,” Longoria stated, who, although born in Texas, declared herself Mexican at heart.
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“Latinos are more hardworking, more passionate, more human, we are good people. Today, the world more than ever needs that, good people,” he added after receiving the honorary award from Colombian actress Sofía Vergara. “It’s too easy to represent the most incredible community on this earth, being made to feel part of you makes me very happy.”
The most heartfelt ovations of the night were for the Argentine actor Daniel Fanego, who posthumously received the Platinum Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film “El jockey”. His son accepted the award on his behalf and joked a little, saying that his father, like many other awardees of the night, could not attend the ceremony.
Clara Segura from “El 47” won the award for best supporting actress for her role as a former nun who taught hundreds of people how to read in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Barcelona known for its community struggle. One of her castmates read her defiant speech in defense of education to “be more free,” against far-right policies, and in favor of migration because “we were all foreigners at some point.”
The Platinum for values education in cinema went to the Costa Rican-Spanish film “Memorias de un cuerpo que arde”, in which Antonella Sudasassi Furniss plays a woman who, at 65 years old, revisits memories, secrets, and hidden desires.
The film “is an invitation to have a dialogue that starts from many taboos, from the pain of guilt that we have to talk about sexuality,” Sudasassi stated when receiving the award.
“The Dog Thief”, which tells the story of a teenager living on the streets of La Paz who dreams of meeting his father, won the top prize of the night for best debut fiction film, which was also the first for Bolivia in this category.
A film about the impact of climate change on the lives of three women who have to migrate to survive, the Spanish-Panamanian co-production “Mariposas negras”, won the award for best animated film.
“Let’s not forget about climate refugees, they are the unique unrecognized refugees,” said its director, David Baute, recalling the tens of thousands of people who are forced to leave their homes due to the climate. “And let’s make this a more habitable world.”
Veterans Carmen Maura and Jairo Camargo won the Platino award for best supporting performance in a series. Maura for her role as Julia, the mother of the protagonist in “Tierra de mujeres”, and Camargo as Apolinar Moscote in “100 años de soledad”.
“El eco” became the first Mexican documentary to win a Platinum award.
The film, which focuses on the lives of a group of children in a remote area in Puebla, “speaks about the things that we carry attached to the soul,” said its director, the Salvadoran naturalized Mexican Tatiana Huezo. “The peasant children of Eco, Mexico, and all of Latin America remind us that life is in the land.”
Alberto Iglesias, one of the most awarded composers in Spanish cinema, won his sixth Platino for the original music of “The Room Next Door,” by Pedro Almodóvar.
Vicente Amorim, Fernando Coimbra, Luiz Bolognesi, and Patrícia Andrade, the team behind “Senna,” the autobiographical series about Formula One driver Ayrton Senna, won the Platinum award for creators of a miniseries.
Senna “is an icon of Brazilian culture that made Brazilians believe that we can, that we are strong,” pointed out Bolognesi.
The gala, hosted by Mexican actress Aislinn Derbez and Spanish actor Asier Etxeandía, began with a flamenco version of “La quiero a morir” that turned the stage of the IFEMA Congress Palace into a tablao. Pablo Alborán and Etxeandía himself - with a cabaret number - provided the musical touch to the evening.