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Fernando Trueba and is "Castillete Gold" Cante de las Minas (09/08/2014)

The Cante de las Minas de La Unión has today among its "ambassadors" with a film director with an Oscar winning Hollywood.

Fernando Trueba has received its "Golden Castillete" on an afternoon in which cinema and flamenco were the two protagonists.

The Mayor of La Union and Executive Chairman of the Cante de las Minas, Francisco Bernabé, has been commissioned to deliver the distinction Fernando Trueba, that he was "very honored" by the award.

Witnesses to the event included the Ambassador of China in Spain, Zhu Bangzao, and the Minister of Education, Culture and Universities, Pedro Antonio Sánchez.

The director explained that he believes the awards are always unfair, but this is "especially unfair" because he knows nothing of flamenco, which is not an expert.

However, he recalled that his relationship with this art has itself given a little known very interesting results, some of them, such as "Rumba Island", an album of Pedrito Martinez in tribute to Camarón who produced their record company Calle 54 Records .

Finally, Fernando Trueba stated that it is a luxury to listen tonight at The Union Josele the Child, which is the Spanish artist impresses you most right now because you learn a lot from him.

And, for the filmmaker, "in art that matters most is the heart and the truth."

Although studied Information Science, and served as film critic for the newspaper El Pais, Fernando Trueba soon changed journalism for his great passion, cinema.

With only 25 years he directed his first film, "The Opera Prima", and 30 began to taste the sweets of fame following the success of his comedy "Be Wanton and Tread No Shame," starring, among others, Ana Belén, Carmen Maura and Antonio Resines.

Since then, Fernando Trueba has not stopped making films, and has received numerous awards, including the aforementioned Oscar for Best Foreign Film for "Belle Époque", which also swept the Goya awards with 9 figurines, or Silver Bear the Berlin Film Festival for "The Year of the lights."

Among the last works of the director, it is noteworthy music-themed documentaries "Calle 54" and "The Miracle of Candeal" and the animated film and "Chico and Rita", which became another Academy Award nomination.

It is in this last movie where his love of music and film got the miracle of turning the great Estrella Morente, singer honored at this year's Festival del Cante de las Minas, a cartoon character.

And it was interpreted Estrella Morente herself in 'Chico & Rita', the animated film that gestated Fernando Trueba and designer Javier Mariscal.

His relationship with music in general, and in particular flamenco, goes much further.

Co-owner of the label Calle 54 Records, Trueba was the architect of the musical fusion of jazz and flamenco that appeared with the album "Black Tears".

Chano Domínguez and Child Josele also recorded an album under the label directed by Fernando Trueba: "Chano & Josele".

The conference that preceded today the delivery of "Golden Castillete" Fernando Trueba has pronounced the writer, researcher and Flamenco José Manuel Gamboa stirrer.

Titled "Flamenco Film: the silent enemy, ally sound," Gamboa has conducted a thorough review of the Flemish presence in cinema, from early silent films in which a "silent" folklore was shown in black and black, until the emergence of artists like Carmen Amaya and Antonio Gades.

Among other anecdotes, Gamboa pointed out that the "first queen of flamenco film" Red was the sister of the Alpargatero, Carmencita, who in 1894 appeared dancing on a tape peteneras silent film shot in New York.

Already in 1898, the Lumiere brothers filmed "La Malaguena and the Bullfighter".

The flamencologist also explained that when the talkies came, the Flemish artists were afraid, because they believed it would lead to the disappearance of live performances.

Nothing is further from what actually happened, with a large outbreak of flamenco films and their stars, being the first Guerrita singer who starred in a Spanish sound film.

José Manuel Gamboa, who is also "Castillete Gold" Cante de las Minas, has published, among other books, "A History of flamenco" or "Flamenco from A to Z".

Journalist and broadcaster of the happenings and intricacies of this immortal art, whether in his magazine "The Cane" or in the newspaper La Razon, also works in radio, in space "Madrid Flamenco" or in Spanish TV as a commentator.

It is also promoting shows and music producer.

With all this, José Manuel Gamboa has become standard of the International Festival del Cante de las Minas de La Union has participated in numerous conferences and has been a jury member at various times of the event.

Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión

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