The film “Puán” continues its series of successes: it topped the pre-selection for the Platinum awards and could triumph at the Goya awards in February

Puanthe comedy directed by Maria Alche AND Benjamin Naishtat and interpreted Marcelo Subiotto AND Leonardo Sbaraglia leads the list of Argentine productions pre-selected for the eleventh edition of the Ibero-American Cinema and Audiovisual Platinum Awards, which will be held on April 20 in the Riviera Maya.

It went very well for too When evil is lurking by Damián Rugna, as well as the second season of Iosi, the repentant spy AND Palermo Division.

Furthermore, the date of the Goya awards ceremony is approaching, where Puan It was nominated in the “Best Ibero-American Film” category. It will be February 10th.

Puan It portrays the university micro-world of Buenos Aires with humor, to reflect on the value of public education.

Puán’s success

Puán had its official premiere on September 26, at the 71st edition of the San Sebastian International Festival, in Spain, one of the most prestigious in the world, and participated in the official competition.

The film by María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat was awarded best film and the protagonist Marcelo Subiotto was also awarded ex aequo as best actor.

On October 5th it arrived in Argentine cinemas and by the end of the year it had already exceeded 100,000 spectators, an excellent figure.

Towards Platinum

A preselection of 20 candidates per category This was announced by the organizers of the Platino Awards, who will announce the four final nominations for each of the 23 categories in the second half of February.

Delivery will take place in April at the Gran Tlachco Theater in XCaret Park, in Rivera Maya.

Puan It leads the list of Argentine films with 10 nominations, including Best Ibero-American Fiction Film, Best Ibero-American Fiction Comedy Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay.

For his part, Marcelo Subiotto figures in the best male performance category, as does Sbaraglia in the best supporting male performance, and Flechner in the best supporting female performance.

The film also entered the shortlist for best artistic direction, best sound direction and the Platinum Award for cinema and values ​​education.

While, When evil is lurking It may also be nominated for Best Ibero-American Fiction Film and shortlisted for Director, Actor (Luis Ziembrowski), Art Direction, Cinematography, Editing Direction, Sound Direction and Original Music .

In the world of television, the second season of Iosi, the repentant spya series created by Daniel Burman and inspired by the true story of a secret service agent who infiltrated the Jewish community of Buenos Aires, appears in six shortlists, followed by Palermo Divisionthe comedy by Santiago Korovsky, with five possible candidates in the final list.

Both could be part of the category of the best Ibero-American miniseries, to which it also aspires Barrabravaby Jesús Braceras.

Gustavo Bassani (I do…), Korovsky (Palermo Division) and Boy Olmi (family of sofas) are in the list for best male performance.

Micaela Riera (Love after love), Carla Quevedo (I do…), Carola Reyna (family of sofas) and Flavia Palmiero (Mrs. Requin) do it in their counterpart as female performers.

Outside Argentina, among the most recurring names in this preselection is that of the Chilean director Pablo Larraín for To count, and his compatriot, the director and documentary maker Maite Alberdi; the Puerto Rican Glorimar Marrero, for Acquarium; and the Spaniard Juan Antonio Bayona for the acclaimed The snow society..

The Platinum Awards are organized by the Audiovisual Producers Rights and Management Body (Egeda) and the Ibero-American Federation of Cinematographic and Audiovisual Producers (Fipca). They also assured that in 2023, the Spanish and Portuguese language industry showed an upward trend in the number of previews, which reflects the favorable situation of the industry after the post-pandemic recovery.

In this regard, they specified that a total of 994 titles will be released in 2022, including 834 films and 160 series. Last year, 1,121 productions were created, including 573 fiction feature films, 388 documentaries, 18 animated films and 142 series.all coming from both sides of the Atlantic.