MADRID, Spain.- The shortlisted candidates for the tenth edition of the Ibero-American Audiovisual Platinum Awards were recently announced. Of the 23 contesting countries, Cuba is among those with the most nominees.
Today in CubaNet We summarize the Cubans who could be winners of the 2023 Platinum Awards, which will be delivered on April 22 at the IFEMA Madrid Municipal Palace.
Luis Alberto Garcia
The popular actor is nominated in the category of Best Male Performance, for the film dark lovesreleased in December 2022 and directed by Gerardo Chijona.
The film, where Luis Alberto García plays Mendiondo, a new rich man who flaunts his wealth and is the victim of a robbery that almost leads to his death, recreates three dark love stories.
García has starred in dozens of Cuban films, among them, Clandestines, Plaff! or too afraid of life, Amanda’s prophecies and Life is whistling.
Osvaldo Doime goodbye
In the same section and for the same film, Doimeadiós is nominated, who plays the corpse that his “girlfriend” Celina (Isabel Santos) will fight for. Celina with her imagination will give it life. Her funeral is a point of convergence of plots.
Characters of the too comedian and playwright like Margot, Feliciano and Pipo Pérez are very loved by Cubans.
Elizabeth Santos
For her part, Isabel Santos is a pre-candidate in the category of Best Female Performance, for the role of Celina, a necrophiliac who will be capable of sacrificing anything to satisfy her desires, even renting a corpse.
Isabel Santos, one of the great faces of Cuban television and cinema, has been acclaimed for her performances in the telenovela Passion and Prejudice, and the films It is exchanged, Honey for Oshun and neighborhood cubto, among many others.
Carlos Enrique Admiral
Also for dark loves, in this case with the character of Ricki, Almirante is nominated for Best Supporting Male Performance. Ricki is a Cuban emigrant who returns to the island because he longs for his ex-girlfriend Beatriz. The film, theater and television actor has a long career in dramas, soap operas and movies.
Vladimir Cruz
In this section could also take the award Vladimir Cruz. In the feature film by Chijona Vladimir Cruz, internationally known for his leading role in the film Strawberry and Chocolatee, gives life to Iván, a talented conductor, who is forced by the bureaucracy to limit himself to the Cuban repertoire. In turn, he traffics in musical instruments of heritage value.
Yailin Coppola
She is nominated for Best Supporting Female Performance for the character of Beatriz. As defined by website of dark loves, “she is a happy woman, dancer, activist of a sui generis citizen group. She awaits Ricki’s return with great excitement. Her love has been turned into a correspondence of unbridled eroticism and passion. There is only one ‘small’ defect that conspires against her project to achieve even more happiness: her gluttony and her overweight. Both things seem to jeopardize their plans.
For years Coppola has been a member of the Argos Teatro Theater Company, under the direction of Carlos Celdrán.
yeny soria
Yeny Soria competes for the same prize. Remembered by the film dancing with margot and member of the theater group La Luna, in dark loves she plays Claudia, who in her eagerness to raise money to buy a house will get involved “in a nocturnal story full of colorful characters in which the absurd and reality confuse limits”.
linnett hernandez
Linnett Hernández is a pre-candidate in the category of Best Female Performance, for her leading role in the film Vincent B.by Carlos Lettuce. Hernández plays a 45-year-old woman whose son leaves Cuba in search of a new life. She is alone in Havana, and she makes a living by reading letters. Now that her son is gone, her predictions start to fail. Vicenta B loses faith and hides behind the lies.
anel perdomo
The young actress is nominated for Best Female Performance for her character as Elsa in the film the black boxby Kiki Alvarez; a love story with the year 1959 in Cuba as a context.
Graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Arte in 2016, her first experience with the professional scene was in the company Teatro El Público.
Jaqueline Arenal
Jaqueline Arenal appears nominated in the category of “Best Actress in Eeparto” for her work in the Colombian television series Hunch, from Netflix. Hunch is a drama and thriller created by Leonardo Padrón. In the dramatized Arenal she plays Greta Volcán, the mother of the protagonist.
Graduated from acting at the Instituto Superior de Arte in 1990, Jacqueline is one of the most popular artists in Cuba and widely remembered for her role as Verena Contreras in the telenovela Brave Land.
