Alicante (EFE).- The film director Alejandro Amenábar has assured that he is working to bring the filming of his next film to the Valencian Community, specifically to the Alicante area, where he hopes to be filming within a year or so.
This was confirmed by Amenábar at a press conference offered this Saturday in the City of Light in Alicante, where tonight he will receive the Lucentum Award from the Alicante International Festival, the festival has reported in a statement.
Accompanied by the director of the festival, Vicente Seva, and the general director of Ciudad de la Luz, Antonio Rodes, Amenábar has highlighted the link that unites him to this city, since his family lives here, and has affirmed that he hopes to be around it in about a year.
THE THORN OF RODAR IN ALICANTE
He stated that the Ciudad de la Luz studios are “fantastic” and that right now he is working to bring “the filming of the next film to the Valencian Community, specifically to the Alicante area.”
Amenábar has stated that “it is an honor to be in the City of Light within the framework of the Alicante Festival”, and has recalled that years ago he visited these studios and has always been left “with the thorn of doing something here”.
Regarding the award that he will receive tonight, he said that he feels “strange to receive an award that is for a career”: “when I look back I don’t have that many films either, but I’ve been doing this for 25 years and I’m very grateful for this recognition.” , has stated.
Asked about his first films, such as Thesis, and if he would make changes to them, the film director replied that “doing digital retouching is not necessarily a good thing.”
“Thesis gave me great joy and the passage of time has been good for it. It maintains its suspense even though technology has changed. I would raise it in terms of networks today if I would shoot it again, but I would not change it ”, he has pointed out.
STARLIGHT WALK
The Alicante International Film Festival has inaugurated this Saturday the “Starlight Walk”, a space that pays tribute to the renowned actors, actresses and directors of the national film scene who have passed through this film competition.
This symbolic tribute, made up of five chairs dedicated to Antonia San Juan, Belén Rueda, Alejandro Amenábar, Fernando Colomo and Fele Martínez, is located in the gardens of Plaza Ruperto Chapí, next to the Teatro Principal de Alicante, where this afternoon the opening gala of the contest.
The premiere was attended by the five honorees, who felt very grateful for this recognition, which in the case of Fele Martinez, was in his homeland, “which is an honor.”
For Fernando Colomo, it has been a surprise that he is very happy about, and Antonia San Juan, who has been coming to the Festival since its inception, has stated that she is “very happy to be part of this city, a city that I would always choose”.
Belén Rueda, who lived her childhood in Alicante, has had words of remembrance for her mother, who was a ballet teacher and thanks to whom she got to know the Teatro Principal, and Alejandro Amenábar has said that within a year she hopes “to be occupying a chair very similar” to the one dedicated to filming here.
ISAAC PERA SCULPTURES
The chair-shaped sculptures that adorn this space have been designed by the Alicante artist Isaac Peral; They are built in polished steel, and will be expanded with others, which will bear the name of different honorees who have already passed through this contest.
The Alicante International Film Festival has the support of the Alicante Provincial Council, Alicante City Council, Alicante City & Beach, Casa Mediterráneo, the Valencian Institute of Culture, À Punt Media and other collaborating companies.