This Monday’s nominees Issue 38 Goya They met at a traditional meeting, which took place in the glamorous Florida Park in Madrid. The event, with a previous photo call that lasted several hours, was attended by most of the artists and technicians who starred in the best films of 2023 according to academic criteria.

“Next time we meet, some of you will bring home Goya. But the films don’t compete with each other, talents do not compete with each other. Goya is a holiday and a way to bring our films to audiences,” commented the President of the Film Academy Fernando Mendez-LeiteIn the evening.

In front of the nearly 190 nominees present at the meeting, the president also emphasized pride in cinema made in Spain. “We have films that touched usin which we saw ourselves, which were awarded at international festivals and which are the best example of the quality of our cinema,” he added.

Among the nominees was Paula Ribot (Rigoberta Bandini)nominated for song I just want lovewhich is part of the film’s soundtrack I am crazy in love with you in the category “Best Original Song”. They are also nominated Joel Lopez for the song Echo (Friends until death); Vetusta Morla and Valeria Castro To love Andrea, from the film of the same name; Marina Herlop Chinese, also from the film of the same name; And Fernando Moresi Haberman and Sergio Bertrand To Little chickfrom Persistent Image.

“I am very happy, the truth is that it has been a very pleasant journey since Alejandro Marin [director del largometraje] He told me the plot of the film. When did I see the first Pride in Seville in 1978 and how the banner fell from the Giralda, I was very excited. It’s a great honor for me to contribute my little grain of sand to this film, which, it seems to me, talks about extremely important things,” he said in an interview with the publication Independent.

The film talks about how, at a time when homosexuality is a crimeReme, a traditional mother, driven by the love of her son, will take part in the Andalusian LGBTI movement, paradoxically created within the Church.

“Julieta and I wrote the song in half a day, with a guitar and an app.”

Paula Ribot

He was also nominated in Best New Actor (La Dani and Omar Banana), Best Original Screenplay (Alejandro Marin, Carmen Garrido) and Best New Director (Alejandro Marin). The 33-year-old artist remembered that she constantly writes melodies into her mobile phone notes and based on one of them she created a song: “I live in an eternal composition, in a bit of a crazy way. “When they wrote to me to suggest it, I thought the one I already had would work.”

As for the meaning of letters, with phrases like “I don’t want to explain why / I want to love you without fear that they might return / I want to jump at your feet, lifting up the parquet / Tell God who I want to be“, he notes that he wanted it to talk about love, but in a universal way.

“I tried to extrapolate everything into a love story precisely because I think that love can be the balm that can end hate. This song is the journey of a mother who ultimately accompanies her son in unconditional love. I based it on that, but tried to make it talk about love in general and fit into the atmosphere I am crazy in love with you thanks to choirs of the seventies”he explained.

This Friday the Catalan released a song with Julieta Venegas. The music is the result of a long process that began with Paula herself texting the Mexican woman that she would like to write a song with her one day, a proposal to which she received an unceremonious “yes.”

Soon after this, the artists met in Madrid and, equipped with a Spanish guitar from Paula and an application with the recorded rhythm of Juliet, it was written on the sofa in the apartment created by the creator hit me, I’m leaving I rented.

“Was a very dangerous meeting from the point of view of the music media, but sometimes you don’t need more to write a song. I really want you to hear this because I’ve had it for a year now and it’s burning in my hands, that’s something that’s very exciting for both of us,” Paula added with a smile a few days before the premiere.

“The audio I found on my phone from the day we built it is really funny because you can hear us. I lose my rhythm, I laugh, everything sounded terrible… and we had a hard time singing it.” biographical film on the wave of artists who already have their own, such as K. Tangana or David Bisbal, notes that he will still have to experience more things to get it.

However, he is clear about what he would like to show by it. “I think my career still has a lot to tell, but I would like it to be biographical film up close, it showed a man who is dedicated to music but also has quite normal life”, I believe.

“I would also like it to show that I am a person who tries to be honest with himself, but who They also have their crises. like every person. Someone who has been writing songs since he was six years old because it is his way of finding refuge, and who continues to find his way through music,” he concluded.