Fimucité & Musimagen launch Spanish Audiovisual Music Awards

- More than 200 professionals, members of the ‘Asociación de Compositores de Música para Audiovisual’ (Association of Audiovisual Composers), have voted for their favourite 2017 film scores.

- The resulting nominees of the voting process are Carlos M. Jara for ‘Otros mundos’, Oscar Martín for ‘Red de libertad’, & Zacarías M. de la Riva for ‘Tadeo Jones 2: El secreto del rey Midas’.

- The winner will be announced at the Closing Gala of the festival held on September 29th at the Auditorio de Tenerife in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

The Tenerife International Film Music Festival (FIMUCITÉ) is pleased to announce the first edition of the ‘Spanish Audiovisual Music Awards’ that is an initiative of FIMUCITÉ and Musimagen (Asociación de Compositores de Música para Audiovisual) aimed at recognising the creative talent in Spain.

More than 200 professionals, who are members of Musimagen, had until August 13th to vote for their favourite 2017 film scores. The resulting nominees are: Carlos M. Jara for his score for the television series ‘Otros mundos’, Oscar Martín for the feature film ‘Red de libertad’, and Zacarías M. de la Riva for the soundtrack of the animated feature film ‘Tadeo Jones 2: El secreto del rey Midas’

The twelfth edition of the Tenerife International Film Music Festival runs from Sept 21st – 30th, and has been made possible thanks to the support and sponsorship of the Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, the Canary Islands Government, and Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council. The award winner will be announced during the Symphonic Gala that will be held on Saturday 29th September in the Auditorio de Tenerife ‘Adán Martín’ in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

In addition, a special suite has been prepared that is dedicated to the music created by the three award nominees. The suite will be performed by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife and conducted by the composer Diego Navarro, artistic director of FIMUCITÉ. The winning score will then be published by Musimagen in accordance to agreements reached with FIMUCITÉ.

Diego Navarro stated, “Here at FIMUCITÉ we believe it is of the utmost importance to support our music for the audiovisual sector. Spanish composers have regularly been part of our festival. I am very pleased because the creation of these new awards will help, to an even greater extent if that’s possible, to strengthen this support and to continue shining the spotlight on music created in Spain for the audiovisual sector”.

In the words of Darío Palomo, President of ‘Musicmagen - Asociación de Compositores de Música para Audiovisual’, "This represents a fantastic opportunity for Musimagen to form part of the incredible event that is FIMUCITÉ, and, using a jury and voting system, it allows the member of Musimagen to bestow peer recognition on their professional colleagues.”

With one foot firmly planted in Spain and the other in Los Angeles, nominee Carlos M. Jara has composed music for television series (‘Conquistadores’, ‘Reinas’, ‘Otros mundos’), documentaries (‘Tabú’, ‘Nacido en Gaza’), programs (‘Cuando ya no esté’, ‘Scoop’, ‘Tras la pista’) and a number of short films.

Óscar Martín has worked as a composer since 2013 and at just 29 years old he has composed three internationally recognised film scores for the films: ‘Poveda’, ‘Luz de soledad’ and ‘Red de libertad’. He is also known for the work he created for the Carlin television advert and the augmented reality videos for Carrefour’s Christmas toy catalogue.

Zacarías M. de la Riva visited FIMUCITÉ in 2015 to accept the Spanish film music’s critics’ choice award for Best National Film for ‘Autómata’. Born in Barcelona, he was also nominated for a Goya for the music from ‘Las aventuras de Tadeo Jones’ (2012).

The FIMUCITÉ 12 been made possible thanks to the support and sponsorship of the Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, the Canary Islands Government, Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council, the companies AUDI, Dorada Especial, & Teleférico del Teide, and the collaboration of SGAE – the Spanish General Society of Authors and Publishers.