Veteran Spanish producer Esther García, a longtime collaborator of Pedro Almodóvar, shall be handed a Donostia Award for profession achievement at this yr’s San Sebastian Movie Competition.
The pageant has mentioned the award was timed to have fun the fortieth anniversary of El Deseo, the manufacturing firm Pedro Almodóvar launched together with his brother, Agustín, which García joined in 1986. García has been a secretary, manufacturing assistant, and producer on the firm. She has labored on each movie directed by Almodóvar since Matador (1986). Her huge physique of labor additionally consists of Pim, pam, pum… ¡Fuego! (Pedro Olea), El año de las luces (Fernando Trueba, 1986), El juego más divertido (Emilio Martínez Lázaro, 1988), and, extra just lately, Olive Laxe’s 2025 Cannes title Sirat.
Amongst the myriad awards obtained by García are the Nationwide Cinematography Award, which she obtained in San Sebastián in 2018, the Silver Fotogramas in 2019, and 6 Goya Awards, three because the manufacturing director and three as a producer.
Elsewhere, the pageant introduced at the moment that its 2025 poster will function the late actress Marisa Paredes. See the poster under. The veteran actress died final yr. She is finest recognized internationally for her collaborations with Pedro Almodóvar, whom she labored with on Darkish Habits (1983), Excessive Heels (1991), The Flower of My Secret (1995), All About My Mom (1999), Discuss to Her (2002), and The Pores and skin I Reside In (2011).
Paredes was beforehand photographed as Rita Hayworth within the Orson Welles traditional The Woman from Shanghai for San Sebastian’s 54th version.
Talking on García, San Sebastian head José Luis Rebordinos described the vet as a “producer with out whom it’s not possible to know the Spanish and Latin American cinema of the final 40 years.”
Earlier this week, the pageant added 5 titles to it’s Official Choice, together with Couture from French filmmaker Alice Winocour, starring Angelina Jolie. Additionally added was Agnieszka Holland’s newest movie, Franz, a co-production of the Czech Republic, Germany, and Poland that narrates the lifetime of the author Franz Kafka from his delivery to his demise.
