Penélope Cruz receives the National Film Award with emotion and allocates the amount to social purposes

Iceta presents the award to the actress, who says that her journey in the cinema is being “much more exciting than she could have ever dreamed of.” She has dedicated the award to her family and has announced that she will allocate the 30,000 euros of the award to social purposes “The adventure of this long journey to Ithaca is proving to be much more exciting than I could have ever dreamed of from the living room of my parents’ house,” she said. The actress Penélope Cruz received the National Film Award from the minister on Saturday of Culture and Sport, Miquel Iceta. She was very moved, she dedicated the award to her family and announced that she will allocate the award for social purposes. “The adventure of this long journey to Ithaca is proving to be much more exciting than I could have ever dreamed of from the living room of my parents’ house,” he said. The jury for the prize, endowed with 30,000 euros, has unanimously awarded the award to the actress, born in Alcobendas (Madrid), “for the successes reaped in 2021, which join all those collected in an exceptional career.” According to Cruz, the amount of the award will be allocated, divided into three parts, to the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages, to the Cris cancer unit for advanced therapies at the La Paz Hospital in Madrid, and to the assistance fund created by Pilar Bardem in Aisge to give protection to film professionals who “are having difficulties” .The event, held in Tabakalera within the framework of the 70th San Sebastian Film Festival, was attended by institutional representatives such as the Vice President of the Government, Nadia Calviño, the Government delegate in Euskadi, Denis I txaso, as well as municipal representatives, among others, and the world of cinema. The sister, Mónica Cruz, and the mother of the Madrid interpreter have also accompanied her at the ceremony.Toledo and TosarThe actress Goya Toledo and the actor Luis Tosar, friends of Penélope Cruz, have been in charge of introducing the Award with two interventions in those who have praised the “human category” of the actress. Thus, Toledo has recalled how he met his “soul friend” and has highlighted that when the “dreams” of the interpreter from Alcobendas began to come true, she “remained the same, with the same joy and the same enthusiasm, maintaining her roots and the curious about her work.” “My deep adoration for you as an actress is immense, but my admiration as a human being is infinite. You never leave anyone behind, you always take your people with you, you always share everything. We have laughed and cried together, and here we continue 33 years later”, he has expressed. For his part, Tosar has indicated that he knows “the mother, the sister, the daughter, the partner, the friend, all the Penélopes”, and has affirmed that Without all of them, “one cannot understand the one who today receives probably the most important prize that can be awarded to a filmmaker in our country.” “All of them are powerful, firm, enthusiastic, supportive, empathetic, friendly, committed, firm, affectionate, funny and all the you are the same and the only one”, he underlined, while stressing that “when you have the opportunity to share experiences with a person who has worked so hard to fulfill their dreams and those of others, you have no choice but to thank to be by her side and see her shine”.”Ambassador” of cinemaFor his part, Miquel Iceta addressed words of congratulations to the award-winning artist, stating that “giving her this award in San Sebastian, at the largest of Spanish festivals, is also recognition of her international projection, her role as ambassador, thanks to the way in which Spanish culture travels with her, with its richness and diversity, its professionals and creatives”. Likewise, the minister has valued women of Spanish cinema “who paved the way for the mecca of world cinema: Sara Montiel, Carmen Sevilla, or Conchita Montenegro from San Sebastian, the Spanish Greta Garbo, who retired at the age of 33 after shooting 18 films in the Hollywood of the 1950s “In this way, as Iceta has pointed out,” Penélope Cruz, with her strength, her vocation, continues that lineage of audacious women who knew how to make their way beyond our borders without renouncing their roots. Feminist women before anyone else, who, long before the rise of collective consciousness, fought to defend, like Penelope, their independence, their criteria and their freedom.” “Dreaming from the living room” Penelope Cruz has expressed that it is “an honor” receive the National Film Award because the cinema “has been and is my passion since I was a child” when “from my parents’ living room I dreamed of worlds to explore beyond my neighborhood”. In this way, she wanted to thank her parents who had the “immense generosity of supporting me on a path that a priori was so foreign to them” and he had moving words for his deceased father and for his mother, present at the event and the one he defined as his “reference model to understand the life.” Cruz has also shown his gratitude to his “teachers” in acting Cristina Rota and Juan Carlos Coraza, who put him “on the path of the constant search for truth and authenticity at work.” “Although it is not always achieved, the most imp What is important for me as an actress is to continue searching for that truth out of curiosity and humility”, she assured. In her film career, she wanted to make special mentions of Bigas Luna and Fernando Trueba who “opened the doors of a world to me that thanks to I’m still going through them today” and Pedro Almodóvar, “the director with whom I’ve worked the most times, I hope many more, and one of the people who has best narrated our country, an essential figure for understanding cinema in general.” I owe Pedro a lot, not only for the work we’ve done together, but also because he takes you to such a level of demand that in that search I’ve always ended up discovering something new about myself”, she asserted. it’s not just the result, “it’s the incredible adventure of living other lives, learning about other realities, discovering wonderful secrets of the human heart and sharing them with the world.” “The adventure of this long journey to Ithaca is proving to be much more exciting than I could have ever dreamed of from the living room of my parents’ house,” she said. Penelope Cruz also highlighted the work of the San Sebastian Festival and its director, José Luis Rebordinos, who “has been fighting for good cinema for decades”, while asking Minister Iceta and the institutions to “never stop protecting and caring for our cinema because it is a sign of our identity and an important part of what makes us recognize and understand each other”. Finally, she dedicated the award to her husband Javier Bardem and her family, and especially to her son and daughter, who “are the most wonderful thing in this world”. “I am very lucky to have you in my life,” she added.