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Fourteen films were competing this year for the gold medal at the Malaga Spanish Film Festival, but it was La verguenza, by the TV and short film director David Planell which triumphed, obtaining the Golden Biznaga for Best Picture and the EGEDA best script award. The other big winner was also the first full-length work by Catalan Mar Coll, Tres dies amb la familia, which came away with the Best Director Award, plus Best Actor for Eduard Fernandez and Best Actress for Nausicaa Bonnin. Two first works which once again demonstrate that a substantial part of Spanish cinemas potential lies in new directors, but whose success is hardly surprising given that of the fourteen films competing eight were the works of newcomers.
Lucia Puenzo, one of the more veteran filmmakers at the event, and her film The Fish Child had to make do with the Special Jury Award and Best Photography Prize, while Borja Cobeaga recieved, for his first feature-length work, Pagafantas, the Critics Prize and the Award for Best First Script, given by the scriptwriters union Alma and the Spanish Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers (SGAE).
Fuga de cerebros, the popular new comedy got the Audience Award as expected, being full of TV series actors like Amaia Salamanca, Mario Casas, Alberto Amarilla and Canco Rodriguez.
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