The debut film of the Spanish director Paula Ortiz has obtained in the 15th edition of the Shanghai Film Festival the Jin Jue Award for the best soundtrack and a Special Mention from the Jury together with the Chinese film «Falling Flowers (Hong Xiao) »by Huo Jianqi. For its part, the other Spanish-language film, "El Sueño de Lú" by Hari Sama has won another Jin Jue Award, the one for best actress for Úrsula Pruneda.
With these two new awards for Spanish-speaking cinema, there are already three Jin Thurs Awards for the Ibero-American films, two for Spanish films and one for the Mexican film, the other award was given to Juan José Ballesta as best actor in 2007 for Santi Amodeo's “Cabeza de perro”.
"It is such an honor to be at this festival, and even more so to win this award" he commented Paula Ortiz, director and scriptwriter of the Spanish film «From your window to mine» when going up to receive the award for best original soundtrack that went to the Israeli composer of the film Avshalom Caspi, and added: "Music is one of the most important elements in telling our story, in telling the soul of the women in our film, so on behalf of the entire team and Avshalom Caspi, the composer, thank you very much."
«From you to the wind»Also received a Special Mention from the Jury, as did the Chinese film« Falling Flowers (Hong Xiao) »by Huo Jianq. The president of the jury Jean-Jacques Annaud, who was not at all easy to agree on the awards due to the high level of this 15th edition, that is why the decision to deliver these two mentions: "Unfortunately, we have found so many interesting and quality films, thanks to the selection committee, that we have had almost more films that we liked than prizes to hand out."
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