ESCAC graduate Laura Ferrés receives the Goya Award to the best documentary short film

The director Laura Ferrés, with her father, was awarded a Goya to the best documentary short film for <i>Los desheredados</i>. Photo: Spanish Cinema Academy
The director Laura Ferrés, with her father, was awarded a Goya to the best documentary short film for Los desheredados. Photo: Spanish Cinema Academy
Institutional
(05/02/2018)

Laura Ferrés and her short film called Los desheredados are adding a new award to the list. Last week, Laura, graduated in film directing at the University School of Cinema and Visual Communication of Catalonia -UB-affiliated centre-, received the Gaudí award to the best short film, and she received a Goya to the best documentary short film on Saturday. Plus, she had also received the Leica Cine Discovery Prize in the last edition of Semaine de la Critique Cannes.

The director Laura Ferrés, with her father, was awarded a Goya to the best documentary short film for <i>Los desheredados</i>. Photo: Spanish Cinema Academy
The director Laura Ferrés, with her father, was awarded a Goya to the best documentary short film for Los desheredados. Photo: Spanish Cinema Academy
Institutional
05/02/2018

Laura Ferrés and her short film called Los desheredados are adding a new award to the list. Last week, Laura, graduated in film directing at the University School of Cinema and Visual Communication of Catalonia -UB-affiliated centre-, received the Gaudí award to the best short film, and she received a Goya to the best documentary short film on Saturday. Plus, she had also received the Leica Cine Discovery Prize in the last edition of Semaine de la Critique Cannes.

In Los desheredados, Ferrés (who also signed its script) narrates the story of the loss of a family business after forty years. The story is played by her father and grandmother. “This short film came up when my family and I lost a business that had lived for long. I would have not imagined we could win something out of this loss”, said Ferrés when given the Goya.

Three former students of the School, among the nominees

Apart from Ferrés, ESCAC was present among the nominees of this 32nd edition in the Goya Awards: graduates Anna Pfaff and David Gallart were nominated in the category of the best film editing for Summer 1993 and Abracadabra, respectively, and Carlos Solano was nominated to the best fiction short film for Extraños en la carretera.

Isabel Coixet, the most awarded filmmaker in the history of Goya Awards

Last, former student Isabel Coixet, graduated in Contemporary History at the UB, was one of the stars of the night, after her three statues for her latest film, The Bookshop. The film received twelve nominations. It got three of the awards, but the most prestigious ones: best film and direction (which Coixet already got in 2006 with The Secret Life of Words), apart from the best adapted screenplay. A total of seven Goya awards over Coixetʼs career make her the most awarded filmmaker by the Spanish Cinema Academy.