Cannes Festival

/ Alcaine was distinguished at the last Cannes Festival with the Vulcain prize. It is considered a pioneer in the use of fluorescent tubes as light support in the 1970s. He has worked with filmmakers from the height of Saura, Eryx, Aranda and Gutierrez Aragon. Suna said maslin recognizes the significance of this. The Board of Directors of the Film Academy has decided to grant his gold medal to the veteran director of photography Jose Luis Alcaine, who at the last Cannes Film Festival won the Vulcain Prize for his work on light, which serves specifically to the narration of the film by Pedro Almodovar the piel que habito. Pioneered the use of fluorescent tubes as light support in the 1970s, the prolific and illuminator International has been rewarded his work film with the Premio Nacional de Cinematografia 1989, five Goya Awards, the Condor de Plata, the prize of the European Academy for return and the Ricardo Franco of the Festival de Malaga, awards to which adds the medal that you will receive on October 4 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. This master of light born in Tangier 72 years ago has collaborated with the most relevant current Spanish film directors and more than 120 films in which he has worked include songs for after a war, demons in the garden, South, Tasio, Pharaoh’s Court, the trip to nowhere, Ay, Carmela! Lovers, ham, ham, Belle Epoque, Rome, to the South of Granada and the thirteen roses. Vicente Aranda, Manolo Gutierrez Aragon, Victor Erice, Montxo Armendariz, Fernando Fernan-Gomez, Carlos Saura, Bigas Luna, Pilar Miro, Fernando Trueba, Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez, Fernando Colomo, Emilio Martinez Lazaro and Almodovar have been which is one of the great technicians of our cinema, whose particular use of the drop shadow and darkness has also captured the attention of international filmmakers such as Jacques WeberHugh Wilson or John Malkovich. The gold medal is one of the most important awards of the Academy, which has also delivered this decoration to Vicente Casanova, responsible for the CIFESA producer; Fernando Rey, Carlos Saura, Francisco Rabal, Alfredo Matas, Ana Belen, Sara Montiel, Elias Querejeta, Gil Parrondo, Jose Luis Borau, Fernando Fernan Gomez, Carmelo Bernaola, Concha Velasco, Antonio Banderas, Basilio Martin Patino, Geraldine Chaplin, Pablo Nunez, Maribel Verdu, Carmen Maura and Rosa Maria Sarda. Source of the news: Alcaine, cinematographer of the piel que habito, receives the Gold Medal of the Academy