Spanish Film Acedemy gets new President

Spanish Film Acedemy gets new President
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By h.b. - Jun 22, 2009 - 8:12 AM
Álex de la Iglesia has said he wants to see Cinema taught in schools

Álex de la Iglesia (centre) poses with his deputies, Emilio Pina and Icíar Bollaín - EFE

The new President of the Spanish Film Academy, Álex de la Iglesia, has presented his objectives for the future.

The director from Bilbao says he wants to see Cinema as a subject taught in schools and that he will be asking the top Spanish directors, Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar and José Luis Garci to return to the academy fold. The Almodóvar brothers left after the academy ignored ‘La Mala Educación’ in 2004, and Garci left after he was accused of buying votes for his film ‘El Abuelo’ in 1999.

De la Iglesia said that he was establishing a second deputy whose job it will be to strengthen the Catalan film industry, naming his two helpers as Iciar Bollain and Emilio Puna.
He notes that Barcelona was the only place outside Madrid where the academy has an office, and that there are many active members in the city.

He said that he wants to see a new income from legal downloads of films and the Spanish public to be once again proud of Spanish cinema.

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