South Channel Radio and Television (CSRTV) rewarded this year, on the occasion of the 50th Festive edition of Huelva of Ibero-American cinema, the prize Best filmmaker in Andalusia to the director, screenwriter and producer Guillermo Rojas of Cordobawhich combines the creative tasks of screenwriter and director with those of producer at the head of Summer Films, as announced during the signing of the collaboration agreement between the Andalusian public entity and the Huelva competition.
The president of the Cultural Foundation of the Ibero-American Cinema Festival of Huelva And mayor’s wife of the capital, Pilar Miranda, wanted congratulate Guillermo Rojas for this distinction. This award, he continued, “demonstrates the good moment that Andalusian cinema is experiencing, with a strong group that follows in the footsteps of established filmmakers, who once again find in the Huelva Festival the perfect showcase to show the good cinema that “It’s done here.”
Rojas, in addition to several short films, he directed two feature films: ‘Again’ and ‘alone at night‘, a film premiered at the Malaga Festival and which has just been released in cinemas throughout the country. The production shows the events experienced by a group of labor lawyers on the night of February 23, 1981, during the coup d’état in the Congress of Deputies of Madrid.
Recognitions as a producer
It turns out that this filmmaker chose early 2023 Priego de Córdoba for filming of the last part of ‘alone in the Evening‘. The director said that “they were looking for a heritage city, which does not have too many current interventions in its streets and buildings, and in which the era that we want to tell in the film could be recreated, something that we found in Priego. of Córdoba.”
It must be added that Redas producer has obtained many recognitions for the documentaries ‘Solar Lands’, ‘Antonio Machado. Blue Days’ and ‘To the Women of Spain. María Lejárraga’, all three directed by filmmaker Laura Hojman.
With She do it again tandem in the filmmaker’s new work, ‘a free man», about the Almeria writer Agustín Gómez Arcos, an author forgotten in Spain but revered in France, the country where he went into exile.
