Juan Antonio Bayona and two different figures from Spain have been offered with MPA Awards by the US studios’ commerce group the Movement Image Affiliation (MPA).
Introduced outdoors the US for the primary time, the awards have been handed out at a ceremony this week in Madrid co-hosted by MPA chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin and US Ambassador to Spain Julissa Reynoso.
Bayona, director of this yr’s worldwide movie Oscar nominee for Spain Society Of The Snow and a variety of different award winners, obtained the MPA Creator Award for, based on an MPA assertion, “his stellar profession delivering beautiful inventive masterpieces to audiences worldwide.”
The MPA Trade Champion Award went to Nadia Calviño, former First Vice President of Spain and present president of the European Funding Financial institution Group, “for her management within the growth and implementation of Spain’s Audiovisual Hub.”
The newly minted MPA Artistic Protector Award, for “a person or organisation whose work has been very important to combating digital piracy,” went to the Spanish nationwide police, with Francisco Pardo, Director-Common of the police drive, accepting.
Rivkin commented: “This yr’s MPA Awards pay tribute to a elementary fact about cinema: our trade is world in its attain and influence, and its champions in Spain exemplify what it means to advertise movie, defend the rights of storytellers, and encourage audiences worldwide. I couldn’t be prouder to honour three leaders who’re making Spain a main vacation spot for manufacturing, a path-breaking pioneer in advancing the rule of legislation, and a key supply of extraordinary storytelling.”
