The film ʻAnimalsʼ receives a RNE Sant Jordi Cinema Award

Marçal Forés showing the teddy bear which appears in <i>Animals</i>.
Marçal Forés showing the teddy bear which appears in Animals.
(01/02/2013)

On Monday 28th January, the names of those awarded in the 57th RNE Sant Jordi Cinema Awards were made public. The jury, composed by experts on film criticism who work in Catalan media, gave the award for the best 2012 debut to Animals, by Marçal Forès, graduate of the Catalan Centre for Advanced Studies in Cinema and Audiovisual Media (ESCAC), affiliated centre with the UB.

Marçal Forés showing the teddy bear which appears in <i>Animals</i>.
Marçal Forés showing the teddy bear which appears in Animals.
01/02/2013

On Monday 28th January, the names of those awarded in the 57th RNE Sant Jordi Cinema Awards were made public. The jury, composed by experts on film criticism who work in Catalan media, gave the award for the best 2012 debut to Animals, by Marçal Forès, graduate of the Catalan Centre for Advanced Studies in Cinema and Audiovisual Media (ESCAC), affiliated centre with the UB.

 
The award ceremony will take place on 15th April in the ancient factory of Estrella Damm in Barcelona.
 
Animals, Marçal Forésʼ debut
 
The ESCAC contributes to the incorporation of young producers into the film industry thanks to the project Opera Prima that it develops together with the production company Escándalo Films. This collaboration has led to the direction debut of some talents trained at the School, such as Kike Maíllo (Eva) or Mar Coll (Tres dies amb la família).
 
Animals (2012), by the former student and lecturer at the ESCAC Marçal Forés (Barcelona, 1981), is the last production born within this project. It is the first film of the director who has a great experience in producing music videos and short films (for example, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! and Friends forever).
 
Forésʼ debut is a hypnotic teenage drama that explains the story of a seventeen years old boy who has always has a cuddly teddy bear as best friend. His life completely changes when a new student arrives to the high school.
 
Forés mixes reality and fantasy in order to tell a teenage love story characterized by the tragedy of two confronted worlds: on the one hand, the world of child imagination and family protection and, on the other hand, the adult world of reason and the discovery of sexuality.
 
Filmed in Catalan and in English and influenced by manga, comic, music and independent cinema, the movie was successfully presented in the last San Sebastian Film Festival and the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival.