The Zoom Festival, International Festival of Televised Fiction and Formats, celebrated its 15th edition this year, in Igualada and Barcelona. This year’s awards list has been for:
Best Film Award from the official jury
Charité (República Txeca, 2016) by Sönke Wortmann is a period miniseries set in 1888 that tells stories of patients and workers of the Berlin Charité. This medical center hosts, among others, Ida Lenze, a young mainadera with acute appendicitis, who undergoes a dangerous and nine operation and Prince Friedrich, who has to deal with possible cancer of the larynx.
Best Direction of the official jury
Silvia Munt for Vida Privada (Spain, 2017). Miniseries – adaptation of the sordid and relentless novel by Josep Maria de Sagarra.
Best Script of the official jury
Luca Manfredi, Elio Germano and Dido Castelli for In arte Nino (Italy, 2016). The film describes the hardest and most significant period of actor Nino Manfredi (father of Luca Manfredi).
Best Interpretation Award of the official jurat
Pablo Derqui for Vida Privada (Spain, 2017).
Servisimó Award for the Best Spanish Serie
Nit i Dia of the creators Jordi Galceran and Lluís Arcarazo, directed by Manuel Huerga.
Honor Award
Àngel Casas is one of the most well-known faces of the small screen in Catalonia, protagonist of programs such as Àngel Casas Show, Un dia és un dia, Tal Cual, Temps era Temps or Senyores i Senyors, and has 2 Wave Awards, 3 TP and an Antenna of Gold.
Tu ets la Tele Award
The television program Saber y ganar, presented by Jordi Hurtado for 20 years, is broadcast daily and already has more than 5,000 episodes.
Auguri Sita Murt Award
Bruna Cusí, recently co-star of the award-winning film by Carla Simón ‘Estiu 1993’. Cusí has also worked in the film Agustí Villaronga ‘Incerta Glòria’ or in the series ‘Polseres Vermelles’, ‘Cites’, ‘El cor de la ciutat’, among others.
Award of D.O Catalunya for the Best Catalan Production
The Llum d’Elna of Sílvia Quer.
Prize of the Jury of the IV Showcase of Fiction Pilots, sponsored by Utramagic Ballons
Berlineses of Pedro Deltell, Paula Galimberti and Gonzalo Piñán.
Audience Prize of the IV Showcase of Fiction Pilots, sponsored by Filmin
Clito de Pol López.
Young Jury Prize for Best Film of the Official Selection
Charité by Sönke Wortmann.
Young Zoom Section Award
Les nenes bones by Clara Roquet.