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Friday, July 17, 2009

Aritz Villodas wins the Jerry Goldsmith Awards

Aritz Villodas has won the IV Jerry Goldsmith Award to best new composer, in the ceremony that has just end in Úbeda, in the V International Film Music Festival. Patrick Doyle, President of Honor of the Festival, has given him the award.

Villodas has win the prize after winning at the category of Best Music in Full-Length Format, for No me pidas que te bese porque te besaré (Don't Ask Me to Kiss You Because I'll Kiss You), his debut in the full-length movies. His competitors, in this category, were Alejandro Vivas (La Conjura de El Escorial), Sergio de la Puente (El lince perdido), Lucas Vidal (The Immortal Voyage of Captain Drake), James Peterson (The Red Canvas) and Manuel Riveiro (Santos).
This has been the winners in the rest of categories:

BEST MUSIC IN SHORT FILM- LIVE ACTION: Óscar Xiberta (Tiempo)
Finalists: Andrés de la Torre (Bajo el Sol), Philip Klein (Hangar nº 5), Iván Capillas (Les sabatilles de Laura) and Carmen García Jara (La vida fluye).

BEST MUSIC IN SHORT FILM- ANIMATION: Stefan Maria Schneider (Our Wonderful Nature)
Finalists: Jesús Calderón and Karel Segers (Tin Can Heart) and Iván Llopis (Toy Matters).
BEST MUSIC IN DOCUMENTARY: Iván Palomares (Mundos de agua: el agua viajera).
Finalists: Sergi Ramis (Endeutats sobre la teranyina), Pablo Laspra (Hijos del desierto), Markus Lehmann-Horn (Kampf Um Germanien) and Jesús Calderón (Tierra de oficios).

BEST SONG: Jorge Aliaga (A un metro de ti, from A un metro de ti)
Finalists: Manuel Riveiro (El Cielo llorará, from Santos), Markus Lehmann-Horn (Malle Shabba, from Marriages are Made in Heaven) and Manuel Carmona (Sopla el viento, from La suerte del inocente).

BEST MUSIC IN DEVELOPMENT PROCESS/FREE CREATION: Arturo Solar (Alondra Smiles).
Finalists: Lucas Vidal (La isla interior), Andrés de la Torre and Matías Nadal (Mí), Iván Vivas (Orchestral Works for Films & Videogames) and Marc Jovani (Peñíscola Suite).
All the winning composers -with the exception of Arturo Solar- have been present at a ceremony directed, written and hosted by Conrado Xalabarder and that has had the attendance of the Festival's guest composers.