A joyful night, albeit with a bittersweet touch, for Spain at the International Emmy Awards. The International Television Academy Awards, held on Monday, November 24 in New York, yielded a handful of winners. Actor Oriol Pla, for his role in the movie I’m addicted (Disney+) and the documentary #I finish, Which depicts the experiences of women’s soccer team players after winning the 2023 World Cup and before the scene of Luis Rubiales’ unwanted kiss with captain Ginni Hermoso, it won two awards. However, in the end Wild valley and Return to Las SabinasWhich competed in the same category for Best TV Series, it lost to the Turkish TV series She has. None of the candidates won from Mexico (which started with four nominations), Argentina (with two), Colombia or Chile (with one each).
Out of 16 categories, Spain was present in three categories, with four awards. It was the fifth of the night that it could win Best Sports Documentary #SeAcabó: Diary of Heroesfrom the production company You First Originals and broadcast by Netflix, which tells the story of the Spanish women’s national football team after winning the World Cup and the scenario that the champions faced before Luis Rubiales’ infamous kiss with its captain, Gini Hermoso. #I finish Compete against Argentina 78from Disney+; Chasing the sun 2South Africa from T+W; and SvenBritish, from Prime Video, won the award.
As the film’s producers, Javier Martínez and Luis Miguel Calvo, told this newspaper, about 4,000 sports documentaries are released every year, a saturated audio-visual panorama, so they wanted to contribute something more and they quickly saw that there was a story to tell. They had to fight against twenty production companies to obtain the rights to the footballers, who had been severely persecuted two years earlier. “We were subjected to pressure to limit our creative freedom, censorship in the context of interviews, calls to reconsider the project…”, they reported in El Pais newspaper a year ago. “But our goal has been consistent from the beginning: to give voice to the players’ story, and to create a high-quality audiovisual work that can be distributed globally, thus compensating for the incomplete and disjointed communication by the protagonists about the events of the past year.” This international award bears witness to this being the case. Martinez and the documentary’s director and executive producer, Joanna Pardos, received the award, surprised and excited, at a New York hotel.
In the male cast, actor and playwright Oriol Pla was competing for his role in… I’m addictedfrom Disney+, the biographical series created by writer Javi Jenner, who plays himself. In his category, he competed against Diljit Dosanjh for his role in a movie biography Indian Amar Singh Chamkilafrom Netflix; Against David Mitchell for the British Ludwig; And against Diego Vazquez to adapt One hundred years of unityfrom Netflix. Finally, the Catalan won. Upon meeting him, he started jumping up and hugging Jenner, sitting next to him at the table.
I’m addictedFilming began in 2023, and tells the repeated journey in and out of addiction of Jenner, a boy from Barakaldo who fulfills his dream of entering the world of cinema little by little until he becomes an agent for actors, and finally falls into the world of nightlife and drugs. In 2021, he decided to turn his story into a book, also titled Hey Addict, which went into dozens of editions. When he began preparing for his arrival on the screen, he himself asked to be the screenwriter and director. “Because I always wanted to be one, but also, damn it, I didn’t dare leave my life in someone else’s hands,” he said. Albilad Weekly In fall 2024.
In the same interview, Jenner admitted that when he saw Pla’s performance and ability to get into his body, he couldn’t help but start crying. “I remember sitting on the bed, and so was the character. Oriol and the first director came in. ‘Oriol, I’m having a decline.’ I can see exactly the moment when it all happened.” Oriol, who was sitting on the floor, took my hand and said: “Javi, I’m here. We’ll do it between us.” And so it was. I directed the last scene of the first episode in tears. I directed Oriol: “That night, when I came home from filming, I felt as if something, a knot inside me, was loosened,” Oriol recalls. Since then, Bala’s performance has won acclaim and awards in Spain, such as the Actors Union or the Fayrouz Award. And now recognition is also coming outside his country.
The penultimate category of the night was one of the most anticipated series, with two Spanish women monopolizing 50% of it. Return to Las Sabinasfrom Diagonal TV and Disney+, Face it Wild ValleyFrom Studio Canal and broadcast on Spanish TV as well as on Brazilian TV Manic voice (crazy about you) And Turkish DIHA (good and bad). This finally got him the award, much to the disappointment of the Spanish delegation that had been winning the award until then.
Mexico was left without the Best Actress award, which would have gone to Carolina Miranda for season two Fatal womenfrom Fix; However, it went to Anna Maxwell Martin for the British Until I kill you. against another Briton, Ludwiglost the Best Comedy Award, for which it competed And they came at night. It also failed in the Unscripted Entertainment Program category for the sixth season of a television series Who is the mask for?Because he went to a stop Shaolin heroesfrom Denmark.
For its part, Argentina did not achieve this with its fourth season miniseries Everything turnsIn the short series category, Al-Kindi won middleman (intermediary), Nor for his sports documentary about celebrating the World Cup during the dictatorship. Chili also lost the award for miniseries or TV movie for her role Win or diefrom Amazon MGM, compared to the British Lost Boys and Fairies. When he won it without, Colombian actor Diego Vasquez did not accept it One hundred years of unity,