Spanish export board ICEX has re-launched a campaign, Where Talent Ignites – Audiovisual From Spain. No Spanish screenwriting talent looks larger than Rafael Azcona, writer of Oscar winner ‘Belle Époque,’ which screens in New York
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Rafael Azcona. Courtesy of Susan Youdelman “The Spanish Cinema has only had one genius: Rafael Azcona,” Oscar winner Fernando Trueba has said.
Screening “Belle Époque,” the film which won Trueba his Academy Award and was lead written by Azcona, this week’s New York showcase, The Goya Goes To – New Spanish Films, affords a priceless opportunity to shed light on a figure who has shaped Spanish cinema past and present yet remains little-known in the U.S.
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