Marisol Carnicero Bartolomé, or Sol Carnicero, as she has been best known in the audiovisual world for almost 50 years, is the winner of the 2020 "Woman of Cinema" award. A recognition that has been awarded since 2011 by Mujeres de Cine, the platform that vindicates and makes visible the work of women in the film industry.
This recognition will be materialized on November 27 in collaboration with the Academy of Film and Film Arts through a meeting by streaming with the winner through the digital platforms of our Festival, Women of Film VOD and the Film Academy.
Carnicero is precisely one of those pioneering women, with an extensive and exceptional professional career, and who has also made a commitment to film directors of the stature of Josefina Molina, Cecilia Bartolomé (both "Mujer de Cine" awards) or Pilar Miró. In addition to a filmography that brings together more than twenty titles, many of them essential in the history of this country, Carnicero is the founder of the Film Academy, and won the Goya Award for Best Production Director in 1988 for 'Cara de acelga', by José Sacristán.
Carnicero began his career on Televisión Española alongside Óscar Banegas, Manuel Martín Ferrand, Alfredo Amestoy and Narciso Ibáñez Serrador. She was a production secretary, scriptwriter or assistant director in programmes such as 'Historias para no dormir', 'Treinta y cinco millones de españoles' or 'Un, dos, tres, responda otra vez'. In the world of cinema she started with 'La Residencia', and soon became the first woman in Spain to take on the direction of a film production: 'Vámonos, Bárbara', from 1977, directed by Cecilia Bartolomé.
Among the titles in which she participated are 'La escopeta nacional', 'Patrimonio nacional', 'Nacional III', 'La vaquilla', 'Gary Cooper que estás en los cielos', 'El crimen de Cuenca', 'Hablamos esta noche', 'Los jinetes del Alba', 'Pasodoble' or 'Esquilache'. For the last two she was also nominated for Best Production Management at the 1989 and 1990 Goyas.
Her extensive curriculum is completed by television productions and shows, such as the Universal Exhibition of Seville EXPO 92 or the Gala '100 years of Spanish Cinema'. She has given courses on Audiovisual Production at the European Institute of Audiovisual Companies or at the School of Cinematography and the School of Image and Sound in La Coruña, among others, and has been a teacher at the School of Cinematography and Audiovisual of the Community of Madrid (ECAM) for twelve years.
She has also collaborated in the elaboration of two volumes of the literary series 'Cuadernos de la academia', specifically the titles 'En torno a Buñuel' and 'Los estudios cinematográficos españoles', respectively, as well as the 'Diccionario Cinematográfico Español', edited by S.G.A.E.
Carnicero is currently working with a group of filmmakers to introduce audiovisual literacy into the primary school curriculum.
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