The Méliès de Plata, one of the most significant awards in the horror genre, has been awarded to the film by Jaume Balagueró starring Luis Tosar and Marta Etura in the Dutch capital in the Imagine Fantastic Film Festival.
Balagueró's film continues to be successful at festivals of the genre and finally receives the precious award that allows him to dream of it. Melies d'Or.
The tape got up to six Gaudí awards in the last edition of these awards, in which it was the most acclaimed together with the film «Eva», even taking the award for best non-Catalan film.
louis tosar in the last edition of the Goya, he was nominated for the best actor award, an award that finally went to José Coronado for "There will be no peace for the wicked."
Now «While you sleep» receives the precious award that it has been delivered since 1996 and that gives the Méliès de Oro option.
After receiving this Silver Méliès, he will try to pick up the witness of the last winner of the Gold Méliès, his compatriot Álex de la Iglesia, who won it for «Tiste trumpet ballad«.
The Méliès de Oro has been an award that has been given well to Spanish cinema, of the 16 editions that have been held to date, on five occasions the award has gone to a Spanish film, the already commented "Trumpet sad ballad" in 2011, "Buried" by Rodrigo Cortés in 2010, "Fausto 5.0" by Alex Ollé, Isidro Ortiz and Carlos Padrisa in 2002 and the first two editions of the contest "The day of the beast »By Álex de la Iglesia and« Tren de sombra »by José Luis Guerin.
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