Madrid (EFE).- The film production company Puy Oria has received the “Francisco de Javier” 2022 award in recognition of his career and his extensive career in the world of cinema and his contribution to the promotion of Navarra, through the films shot in this community.
This was highlighted during the award ceremony, held this Monday at the Spanish Film Academy in Madrid, by the president of Navarra, María Chivite, who pointed out Oria’s “bet” on “social and committed” cinema and «the defense of human rights» through their productions.
“With his films we have opened our eyes to the terrible reality of immigration, revived the social debate in the face of the silence of sexual abuse or reminded that our identity resides in childhood,” Chivite has indicated.
Likewise, he has outlined that Oria’s merits coincide with the purpose of the “Francisco de Javier” award, with which people who project an image of Navarra as a community that contributes to progress, well-being and the improvement of society are recognized. .
Cinema and industry in Navarra
The president of Navarra has drawn a parallel between the film sector and her community, which she has said is the most industrialized in Spain and that it has “a privileged and diverse cultural heritage”, so “it was to be expected” that a place like this would end up being “movie land”.
In this sense, he highlighted that, thanks to public incentives, an audiovisual sector is being developed in Navarra that “employs more people every day, since culture generates industry”.
«Every year we host more filming, series and advertising. And we are also a promising cluster of animation companies with several large-scale projects in the pipeline,” said Chivite.
Oria, grateful for her colleagues
After thanking the Government of Navarra for granting the prize, Puy Oria recalled the support of colleagues who trusted her to carry out different professional tasks within the world of cinema.
«Since Elías Querejeta gave me the opportunity to work as a councilor in ‘Las cartas de Alou’ in 1990, cinema became part of my life. In it I found the possibility of growing and enjoying organizing filming, launching new projects or preparing promotional campaigns”, Oria assured.
The filmmaker has reported that, for more than 30 years, she has been learning and contributing “everything she knew” to the films and series in which she has worked, in order to enrich them and that they had “everything necessary for their proper realization”.
«I have also learned that cinema, the audiovisual as a whole, is not only about making films, but that it is also necessary that we get involved in preparing future professionals in the sector and that we work to consolidate laws that allow the production and dissemination of the enormous diversity and creative wealth of our projects”, Oria has expressed.
Career path
Puy Oria (Torres del Río, 1962) had his first contact with the world of cinema for the production company Elías Querejeta in the ‘casting’ of the film “Las Cartas de Alou” in 1989.
Since then, he has worked in the production departments of more than thirty films by directors such as Bigas Luna, José Luis García Sánchez, Víctor Erice, Imanol Uribe, Vicente Aranda, Carlos Saura and Montxo Armendáriz, with whom, in the year 2000, he founded the production company Oria Films, with which they have produced seven films, among which are the feature films “Silencio Roto”, “Obaba” and “Don’t be afraid”.
Settled in Madrid for decades, she has combined her activity as a producer with her work as a trainer and, in addition, she has held various representation positions in institutions linked to cinema and culture, such as the Navarro Council of Culture, of which she is currently a member.
Nominated for the Goya Awards in the category of Best Production Director for her work on “Obaba”, she has received the “Pau i Justicia” award at the International Film and Human Rights Festival (Humans Fest).
Recognition of the promotion of Navarra
The “Francisco de Javier” award was instituted by the Foral Executive in 2009 to recognize people, entities and institutions that, with the activity they carry out outside the Foral Community, project an image of Navarra as a Community that contributes to progress, well-being and the improvement of society.
In past editions, it fell to the rejoneador from Estellé Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza (2009), the chef from Lerín Pedro Ábrego (2010), the soccer player Ignacio Zoco and the singer María Ostiz (2011) and the one who was a delegate of the Government of Navarra in Madrid, until the extinction of this position, Salvador Estébanez (2012).
In addition, star psychologist Javier Urra (2013), writer Manuel Hidalgo (2014), film director Montxo Armendáriz (2015), Azagré restaurateur Juan Miguel Sola (2016), saxophonist and composer Pedro Iturralde (2017), the stellar chemist, geologist and glaciologist Adolfo Eraso Romero (2018) and the businessman from Oteiza, José María Zabala (2019).
