RIVIERA MAYA.- The actress Argentina Cecilia Roth will receive the Platino de Honor 2024 on Saturday, April 20 during the Platino Awards ceremony of the Cine Ibero-American, which in its eleventh edition is celebrated in the Riviera Maya, in Mexico.
Thank you very much, I am speechless. I am extremely grateful for everything these awards mean throughout Latin America and the world. For me the Platinum award It is an entire country in which we can cross paths, intertwine, get to know each other, come together, each one with his own identity, but, at the same time, tinged with the same language, with Spanish and Portuguese, said Cecilia Roth during a press conference. held the day before the awards at the Xcaret Arte hotel.
It gives me a lot of emotion and great joy to be here with people who make audiovisuals, with all of us who know how difficult it is to make movies and make series, to be on a screen, how the industry changes permanently, how countries change, I continued. .
The legendary actress, who has placed herself under the orders of directors of the stature of Pedro Almodvar, took advantage of her thank-you speech to raise her voice and cry out for Argentine cinema that is going through a crisis.
Right now in Argentina it is becoming very difficult to make films, culture in general is almost a point of expulsion for all of us who dedicate ourselves to this, which are huge numbers of families. I want this to be known in Latin America and in Spain, and it is also a request for help, because our cinema This year we have a huge number of representatives of the cinema that is made in Argentina, which is increasingly beneficial, economically on the one hand and On the other hand, movies and series are of massive interest, not only in Argentina, said Roth.
The actress recalled a thought from Almodvar when evaluating the current state of Argentine cinema.
And there is that phrase that Almodovar recently said at the Goyas: that for a certain part of Argentine and world politics, Argentine cinema is bad and no one sees it. I want to say the opposite, we are here saying the opposite. And this request for help means that we are attentive, because perhaps next year there will be no representative of our country. Next year there will not be a single movie made, he indicated.
Likewise, he emphasized the importance of the role of cinema within national culture.
“Argentine cinema has grown in a profound and independent way in the sense of telling stories that belong to us. We are a link in the culture that means the history of our country. We cannot cut it, the links cannot be cut. I am sure that This will pass, but with your help more,
Although her time in theater and television has been successful, Cecilia Roth has a solid career in film. Among the films she has under her belt is Martin (1997), which earned her the Goya for best actress. She was the first non-Spanish actress to win a Goya award. with the tape Everything about my mother, by Almodvar, achieved international projection when the film won the Oscar for best foreign film.
The Platino Awards celebrate productions made in Spanish and Portuguese. In the 2023 edition, the Platinum Honor award went to actor Benicio del Toro.
