Alejandro Hernandez, a Cuban scriptwriter won a Goya award for Best Adapted Script for his work on All women (Mariano Barroso, 2013). Prior he had also participated in the script and the production of popular film Havana Blues (Benito Zambrano, 2005).
This Sunday, the latest installment of the Goya Awards in its XXVIII edition was won by Cuban- Spanish writer Alejandro Hernández (Havana , 1970 ), who lives and works in Madrid.
On receiving the award, Alejandro Hernández dedicated his win, very excited, to the master of Cuban cinema Daniel Díaz Torres (Havana December 31, 1948 – September 16, 2013): “He told me, get out of Cuba , learn of the world and then write . Thank you Daniel! “
The laurel was awarded for his work in adapting the screenplay for the film “All women”, by Spanish director and screenwriter Mariano Barroso. It was a project that began in serial format and then conquered the big screen.
“All women” tells the story of Nacho, a veterinarian who faces all the women who have meant something in his life. Before him his lover, his mother, his psychologist, his partner, his ex-girlfriend and her sister shows up. All pending with accounts and he has to face them all to solve them.
Hernandez was twice nominated in the same category of Best adapted screenplay. He also ran for the awards as co-writer with director Manuel Martín Cuenca of Cannibal (2013), a psychological thriller based on the adaptation of the novel by Humberto Arenal. Relations and friendship that had been planned since they met during their studies at the International Cuba School of Film and Television (EICTV) of San Antonio de los Baños.
Alejandro Hernandez (left) and Mariano Barroso, director of All Women.
The Goya are awarded annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain since 1987 to the best professionals and works of various specialties within the sector.
In the ceremony of the XXVII Goya in 2013, Juan of the Dead (Alejandro Brugués, 2012) won the award in the category of Best Latin American film, which gave prestige to independent films made in Cuba outside the Cuban Institute of Art and Film Industry (ICAIC).
This year, triumphed in this section the Venezuelan Azul y no tan Rosa, by Miguel Ferrari, this being the first Goya for that country ever.
The “Las brujas de Zugarramurdi “ (Zugarramurdi Witches) by Alex de la Iglesia, won seven awards from ten nominations and Living is easy with eyes closed, by David Trueba, three of them, among which stands out the prize for best director and best original screenplay.
The rest of the winners of the XXVIII edition of the Goya Awards 2014:
Javier Pereira has won the best actor award for Stockholm.
Arturo Garcia for Zugarramurdi Witches, best art direction.
Best Costume Design, Francisco Delgado Lopez in Zugarramurdi Witches, the same professional who last year won the same award for Snow White.
The award for Best Editing Pablo Blanco in Zugarramurdi Witches.
Best short documentary went to Raúl de la Fuente by Minerita.
Best animated short for Strings, Padro Garcia Solis.
Best short fiction Abstenerse agencias.
Best Original Song for Do you really want to be in love? Josh Rouse.
Best sound Zugarramurdi Witches.
Best Production Zugarramurdi Witches.
Best novel Actress Natalia Molina for Living is easy with eyes closed.
Best Actress for Mariam Alvarez, for La herida.
Best photography Pau Esteve for the film Cannibal.
Best special effects Zugarramurdi Witches.
Fernando Franco Best Supporting Actor for La Herida
