pRoducer Esther García will win the Donostia Award at the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival (September 19-27) and will also pay for the festival A tribute to the late Spanish actress Marisa Paredes, this year’s official poster was dedicated to her memory.
García is a longtime producer and production manager at Pedro Almodóvar. Matador (1986) and The Law of Desire (1987) his Oscar-winning title Everything about my mother (1999) and Talk to her (2002) and even his latest film The next room He won the Golden Lion in Venice last year.
Garcia has worked with other Otels, including Lucrecia Martel.exist2017) and Oliver Lacus (Sirwinner of the 2025 Cannes Ju Prize). Her other major international and Spanish projects include Guillermo del Toro The Devil’s Backbone (2001), Alex de la Igreso Mutation effects (1993), and Andre’s Wood Loco Fever (2001).
A champion of the voices of women’s rights and gender equality within the film industry, she has been awarded six Goya awards.
The festival has released the official poster for the upcoming edition honoring Marisa Paredes, one of Almodovar’s most famous muses. Paredes first appeared in six of his films Dark habits (1983) and conclusion Broken embrace (2009). She passed away in December 2024.
San Sebastian also screened some of her performances over the years, including Agusti Villa Longa In a glass cage (1986), Felipevega There’s light but (1987), Raul Lewis Three lives and one death (1996), Manuel Gomez Pereira Queen (2005), and Jaime Rosales’s Petra (2018).
Paredes was president of the Spanish Film Academy from 2000 to 2003, receiving the highest acclaim in the industry, including the Goya Honorary Award in 2018, the Spanish National Cinematography Award in 1996), and the gold medal for art achievements in 2007.
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