Next October 2021, the eight edition of the Ibero-American award will be held in person at a venue to be confirmed and will be broadcast through TNT in the 23 countries of the region.
During the first days of October this year, the seventh edition of the Platino Awards will take place, an event that celebrates the best audiovisual Iberoamericans productions. This edition has almost 700 participating plays, of which more than 40 are audiovisual materials of Chilean production or co-production, as well as national actresses and actors nominated for the Platino Ibero-American Cinema Awards 2021.
The Platino Awards are awards created by the Entity for the Management of Rights of Audiovisual Producers (EGEDA) in collaboration with the Ibero-American Federation of Cinematographic and Audiovisual Producers (FIPCA), the Ibero-American Film Academies, Latin Artist and the support of the institutes of Cinema, in order to recognize, make visible and celebrate the talent of the film industry of the 23 Ibero-American countries, which includes European, South American, North American and Caribbean nationalities. This year there will be 22 awards and a Platinum Honor Award.
Within audiovisual productions, feature films, documentaries and series, among others, are considered; and this year there will be a novelty in this last category, since the new distinction of “Best Series Creator” was created, in which the chileans María Elena Wood and Patricio Pereira will be participating for Dignidad, and Leonora González, Sergio Gándara and Jarmo Lampella by Héroes Invisibles.
Other categories in which Chile appears as a candidate are: Best Ibero-American Fiction Film, with the participation of Matar a Pinochet by Juan Ignacio Sabatini, Pacto de Fuga by David Albala and Tengo Miedo Torero by Rodrigo Sepúlveda; Best Direction where the aforementioned Albala and Sepúlveda are nominated, to which Jorge Riquelme Serrano joins for Algunas Bestias; Best Documentary Feature Film with the participation of El Agente Topo by Marte Alberdi- which was also nominated for the recent Oscars- and La Cordillera de los Sueños by Patricio Guzmán; and Best Male and Female Performance.
Among the nominated actors are Juan Carlos Maldonado for El Príncipe and Alfredo Castro for Tengo Miedo Torero in the category for Best Male Performance; and Daniela Ramírez for Matar a Pinochet, and Amparo Noguera for La Muerte vendrá y tendrá tus ojos in the Best Female Performance category.
Among all the national audiovisual productions that are nominated, one of those that has a high probability of an award is the feature film Tengo Miedo Torero by Rodrigo Sepúlveda, with six nominations.
This year, Ibero-American productions have decreased by 24%, a number that these awards seek to improve by disseminating and promoting the best films in the region.
