The Nobu hotel, facing the bay of Talamanca, is hosting a press conference in which many truths will be told. Among others, that the noise of the night or the fame of its sun and beaches do not overshadow the multicultural effervescence that springs from Ibiza. The proof is the success of Ibicine, a festival that collaborates with the Goyas, and that at the inauguration of its sixth edition –under the baton of the tireless Helher Escribano– has had the presence of artists such as Juana Acosta, Carlos Bardem, Ana Fernández, Belinda Washington, VÃctor ElÃas, Cristina Castaño, Olivia Baglivi, Laura Gallego and the godmother of the contest, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo. At the Astarte awards gala, for one reason or another, everyone agrees on the immense value of family and parent-child relationships.
Juana Acosta has just closed the tour with her work El perdón, in which she addresses how she lived through the death of her father, murdered in Colombia in 1993, and the influence that trauma has had on her life. For starters, she wasn’t able to resume dancing until 30 years later. She comes from being in Cali (Colombia) closing the El perdón tour and receiving a tribute in Cartagena de Indias. “The trauma was embedded in my soul,” she explains to La Vanguardia. “Making this work has been very cathartic, one of the most powerful experiences of my life, like a quantum leap.”
With his sister, he has founded Calité Films, a production company that signs that work and On the Other Side of the Garden, for HBO, and with four more projects in development: What is not spoken, with Mediapro; Inhabited nights with BuendÃa Estudios; This Too Shall Pass and Burning Fog.
Asking Carlos Bardem about his mother is obligatory; on this occasion to know how she should be remembered: “As what she was, an exceptional human being and a tremendously brave and coherent person, who fought for the rights of many people,” says the actor and writer.
After the success of this story of slavery that he collects in Mongo Blanco, his latest novel, El asesino inconformista, raises blisters: “Many times they tell us reality as fiction, so the obligation of the fiction writer is to tell reality and this novel fill gaps. There are corruption plots in this country that have resulted in more than 14 deaths, so I began to fantasize about what the perpetrator of those deaths would be like, a murderer of corrupt politicians. I do not reproduce names but there are very recognizable people; those people you tell me about who had unexpected and opportune endingsâ€.
Bardem is accompanied by his partner, Cecilia Gessa, who has submitted the short film Princesa to the contest, about male abuse, a plague that infects society from top to bottom regardless of the social class of victim and executioner.
Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, in charge of Versión española and Atención, obras (on TVE), explains that she accepted the position as president of the Academy of Performing Arts largely as a tribute to Fernando Guillén and Gemma Cuervo: “To them and to what their generation meant: the Gutiérrez Caba, the Larrañaga Merlo, Julieta Serrano, Nuria Espert, Lola Herrera… In the midst of the dictatorship they could help generate a critical spirit, to change the point of view of a population that was not allowed to think. They helped the population to reflect, to walk towards a democracy representing prohibited actors such as Camus and Sartre. They closed the theater but if they could do three performances with a full house, it was worth itâ€. Ibiza is part of his identity, like his family and friends, he says, and receiving the Astarte de Honor award is a joy.
Olivia Baglivi attended Ibicine in 2022 with Libélulas and tonight she will win the best actress award for Suelta (Javier Pereira’s first film). The actress from Madrid will fly from Ibiza to Alicante, where she will represent El proceso with Carlos Hipólito, about the work of Kafka and will soon premiere Memento Mori on Prime Video, with Juan Echanove and Jon González.
Belinda Washington is accompanied by her daughter, Daniela, who is already training as an actress. In her mother, she has an acting teacher with courses at Central de Cine, AISGE, Actores Madrid and The Core School, a workshop for Atresmedia. “I advise my daughter the same as my students. There are three words: work, humility and passion. What should she never do? What she doesn’t feel. Naturally, there are times when we have to do ‘food work’ because we have to pay bills, mortgage, etc. but what you do, vibrate it and think about a greater good: our work allows us to live in a single life the heads of many characters but we also have the immense luck of inspiring or influencing people, telling stories that stir you or they make changeâ€. Belinda will start a loud ovation at the Astarte gala interpreting La llorona, with VÃctor ElÃas on the keyboard.
VÃctor ElÃas, an accomplished pianist, has a brother in Fran Perea. They were in the mythical Los Serrano, of which this month marks the 20th anniversary, and they were again in the Fedra play. Their close relationship led them to work together on the Uno más uno son 20 tour, with Perea as vocalist and he as co-producer and musical director. ElÃas began his piano career after finishing the series and that’s how he met his partner, the singer Ana Guerra, who collaborates on Fran Perea’s album: “That’s right, Universal hired me to be their musical director. In this work we have tried to unite two generations, those who lived through the series, with Ãlvaro Benito de Pignoise or those who were younger, like Anaâ€. By the way, his chat with the rest of the actors who gave life to the characters of Los Serrano (Antonio Resines, Belén Rueda, Natalia Sánchez, Antonio Molero, etc.) is called “family”.
