The Spanish director and producer and have been awarded it with the National Touromaquia Award, failed this morning at the headquarters of the Regional Government of Castilla La Mancha in Toledo.
After the, the award has now been convened by the Senate, the Junta de Andalucía, Cantabria, Region of Murcia, Valencian Community, Government of Aragon, Board of Communities of Castilla-La Mancha, Board of Extremadura, Community of Madrid, Board of Board Castilla y León and the Toro de Lidia Foundation.
Serra, born in Banyoles (Girona) in 1975, has been awarded for his film Soledad afternoons, A film that, “through a risky and deeply artistic film language, explores the essence of bullfighting as rite, and the figure of the bullfighter as a real contemporary hero and an artist in constant commitment to his art, addressing universal songs such as the Fear, death and beauty, ”according to a note of the. The documentary won
For its part, he adds that “RUCTL represents a fundamental entity in the preservation of a unique cultural, historical and genetic heritage in the world. Since its foundation, on April 15, 1905, RUCTL has played a crucial role in the defense and promotion of Toro Bravo, contributing to the maintenance of an ancestral tradition that is an essential part of Spain cultural identity ”.
The jury has highlighted the film Soledad afternoons For “its visual and sound treatment of bullfighting, as well as its ability to transcend the mere documentary record and raise bullfighting to an area of artistic reflection with a current language that allows communicating its essence and its values to geographically and culturally distant public Bullfighting ”. In addition, as reflected in the minutes of the meeting, the jury wanted to highlight “the relevance that for the granting of this award has the generosity, delivery and bullfighting of without which this film would have been impossible. Because Soledad afternoons It portrays a real bullfighter, a concrete bullfighter who absolutely delivered to his profession in each celebration, not a fictional character. ”
For its part, the jury has also rewarded “to the RUCTL for its 120 years of activity, playing a crucial role in the defense and promotion of the brave bull, contributing to the maintenance of an ancestral tradition that is an essential part of the cultural identity of Spain ” As the minutes of the meeting collects, “the Royal Union of Bull Builders of Lidia is maintaining a unique race in the world, guardian of the Dehesa, an ecosystem that combines the perfect balance between man and nature, example of biodiversity . Bravura creators, farmers are conservatives of more than five hundred thousand hectares of high natural value, population fixers and green employment creators. ” Albert Serra and the RUCTL will collect the National Bullfighting Award 2024 on March 3 at 1:00 p.m. at the Senate headquarters.
Next Monday 17 the Committee that has collected more than 500,000 signatures with a popular legislative initiative (ILP) to take the protection of cultural heritage to bullfighting will deliver the rubrics to the electoral census. If the census considers that the signatures are valid (it will take a few weeks), the Congress of Deputies has six months to vote on the ILP.
The jury of this new edition has been composed of awarded persons in the previous calls; the president of the Senate Culture Commission; a representative of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces; up to a maximum of twelve personalities of recognized prestige of the professional, cultural, academic or researcher related to the set of artistic, creative and productive knowledge and activities that converge in bullfighting as cultural heritage; and a person designated by each of the autonomous communities that support the National Bullfighting Award.
