Female filmmakers from Spain criticize the award that the San Sebastian Film Festival will present to Johnny Depp | Cinema | Entertainment

The Spanish contest made the award public this Monday after considering that the interpreter is “one of the most talented actors” in the industry.

EFE

August 10, 2021 – 7:17 pm

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A day after meeting that the American actor Johnny Depp you will receive the Donostia Award at the San Sebastián Film Festival (northern Spain), the president of the Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media (UP), Cristina Andreu, criticized the inappropriateness of rewarding an actor immersed in the middle of a legal battle after being accused of mistreatment.

Johnny Depp will receive the Donostia Award at the San Sebastián Film Festival

“It is still in the process. We believe in the presumption of innocence, but it seems that in some places he has been convicted or at least when he had said that she (his ex-wife and whistleblower, also the actress Amber Heard) had lied, some courts have said no. Simply what we say is that it is not the time for them to give you an award, until you really know what has happened”, He told Efe the filmmaker.

The Spanish contest, which will celebrate its 69th edition from September 17 to 25, made the award public this Monday after considering that the 58-year-old interpreter he is “one of the most talented and versatile actors in contemporary cinematography”. Depp will collect the award at a ceremony on September 22 in the Kursaal auditorium.

“The Donostia award is for a whole career, it would be another thing if he won the jury prize in a movie starring him, there it would be something else. But a whole trajectory, at this moment, it does not seem to us that it is the most opportune “, says Andreu, who received the news with surprise.

“We could not have said anything, but when we signed the parity letter in the cinema with the festival, it seemed a bit cowardly to keep quiet”added the representative of the largest association of women filmmakers in Spain.

The award comes a year after Depp’s visit to Zinemaldia to present Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds whit Shane Macgowan, of Julien temple, in whose production he had participated and which won the Special Jury Prize.

For his part, the director of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, José Luis Rebordinos, manifested to Efe that the reasons why Depp is awarded the Donostia Prize of the 69th edition “are in his filmography”.

“It is our recognition of a great actor, a film man with an important career, who visited us last year in his capacity as producer of the film. Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds whit Shane Macgowan”, he stressed.

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Rebordinos added that “the function of a film festival is not to judge the conduct of members of the film industry (…) but select the most relevant and interesting films of the year and recognize those who have made an extraordinary contribution to the art of cinema”.

Precisely, the Karlovy Vary Festival, which this year celebrates its 55th edition, announced this Tuesday that it will honorary awards a Johnny Depp and Michael Caine in recognition of their extensive acting careers.

“We are proud to welcome an icon of contemporary cinema to the Festival. We admire Depp’s work and are excited to award him this distinction. “, affirm the artistic director of the event, Karel Oh, and its executive director, Krystof Mucha, it’s a statement.

Depp, who has three Oscar nominations and has won a Golden Globe, among many other awards, He has been immersed for years in a legal fight with his ex-wife, also the actress Amber Heard.

Last March, the British Court of Appeals refused to admit an appeal filed by the actor against a 2020 ruling that accused him of having mistreated her. Depp wanted to appeal the ruling of the Superior Court, which rejected his libel suit against the newspaper The Sun, who had accused him in an article in 2018 of being “a wife abuser,” detailing various alleged violent incidents against Heard.

In that decision, the court, which heard the testimony of both parties in a trial that caused a stir in the United Kingdom, said that the accusations made against Depp in the newspaper were “substantially true” and considered that 12 of the 14 attacks that they were attributed “had happened” to him.

As a result of this ruling, the film production company Warner Bros withdrew the actor from the cast of the third installment of the franchise Fantastic Beasts, written and produced by JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, due to be released in 2022. (I)

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