This year, FICBUEU will recognize actress María Vázquez with the Galician Film Award
FICBUEUTampere Film Festival Executive Director Riina Mikkonen; director and producer Chema García Ibarra; and Serbian critic Tara Karajica, jury member of the Official Section of the event.
BUEU. Pontevedra. 31.07.24. The Galician actress María Vázquez (Vigo, 1979) will receive the Cinema Galego Award from the Bueu International Film Festival (FICBUEU). Since 2016, the festival has recognized with this award the contribution of professionals in the Galician audiovisual industry throughout their careers. Vázquez will receive the Cinema Galego Award on September 14 at an event where she will also hold an open discussion with the FICBUEU public.
The festival, which is celebrating its seventeenth edition between September 6 and 21, awarded this award in previous years to actresses Mabel Rivera, Melania Cruz and Luísa Merelas, and to actors Miguel de Lira, Alfonso Agra, Celso Bugallo and Antonio Durán Morris.
María Vázquez began her career as an actor about 25 years ago. Professionally linked to both the Galician audiovisual and state sectors, she has been nominated several times for the Goya Awards, most recently in 2024 for her performance in the award-winning Galician film Matria. Throughout her career, Vázquez also won three Mestre Mateo Awards for her performances in other productions. The Vigo-born actress also regularly works in theatre and television. Her most recent production for the small screen is the series El jardines (The Gardener), produced by Netflix and which will be released in the coming months.
During the meeting with the FICBUEU public that will take place on September 14, attendees will be able to learn more about María Vázquez’s professional career and learn more about her work.
Jury
The FICBUEU team is finalising the last organisational details of the next edition of the competition, whose juries for the competition sections, the Official and Uncovered, which reward the best productions by the youngest authors, have already been appointed.
The executive director and programmer of the Tampere Festival (Finland), Riina Mikkonen; the director, screenwriter and producer Chema García Ibarra, and the Serbian programmer, critic and journalist Tara Karajica will be the three in charge of deciding the winning films of the Official Section.
The Descubertas jury is made up of the photographer and cultural manager Elisa Pereira, the programmer and researcher Xan Gómez, and also the programmer, researcher and critic Daniela Urzola.
