The 38th edition of the Goya Awards is not going to be just any gala. The Valladolid fair and its surroundings will not only be the epicenter of the celebration of Spanish cinema that once again proudly shows off another year of good harvest with 20,000 species of bees, The Snow Society, Close Your Eyes and You Know That among the most nominated. It seems that the rain will accompany a night that promises to be very vindictive and that may move the expected red carpet inside the venue.
On the one hand, a demonstration called by the unions against the PP Government and Vox in the Community, the possibility that the farmers’ protests will take over the city with an uncommunicated tractor unit and the presence at the ceremony of a handful of political authorities led by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez; the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz; and the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, shield Valladolid in the midst of an unprecedented security device.
And all this with the absolute prominence of support for victims of sexual abuse in the industry after the publication of the El País report on January 26 in which three women denounced director Carlos Vermut of sexual violence. A scandal that has even forced the modification of the script planned by Ana Belén and Los Javis, hosts of the evening, who recognize the “painful” moment that Spanish cinema is experiencing.
The Goya will therefore serve as a showcase for the Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media (CIMA) to exhibit a pai pai with the motto
If a year ago, the actress Jedet denounced the producer Javier Pérez Santana for sexual assault at the after-party of the Premios Feroz, in what promised to be the beginning of a late Spanish Me Too that did not prosper, the publication of new cases in the sector -Vermouth and Armando Ravelo- along with other complaints in the French industry -the last one the filmmaker Benoit Jacquot- has opened the ban so that the shock wave of that movement that emerged in 2017 against the producer Harvey Weinstein now strongly shakes the film industry Spanish. It was time! And I hope it doesn’t stop and reaches all areas, because abuses are everywhere.
