XCARET, Mexico – Argentine Cecilia Roth denounced that Javier Milei’s government is “dismantling” Argentine cinema. The actress, who today receives the Platinum Honor Award for her career, took advantage of the XI Platinum Awards to demand aid for cinema in her country of origin and in the rest of the 23 Ibero-American countries that have participated in this contest since 2014. of the audiovisual.
“It gives me great joy and excitement to be here with all these people who make audiovisuals, with how difficult it is,” Roth commented at the Platinum of Honor press conference. “But right now in Argentina it is becoming very difficult to make films. “They are dismantling everything that has to do with culture in general and cinema in particular.”.
Roth assured that Argentine audiovisual production is increasingly profitable.
“It is a request for help, because perhaps next year there will not be a representative of our country at the Platinum Awards, because no film is being made.”he added.
Previously, the president of EGEDA (Audiovisual Producers’ Rights Management Entity), Enrique Cerezo, praised Roth’s career.
“Your filmography includes fundamental works from several countries,” Cerezo said from the stand to Roth, sitting in the front row.
“Yours is a career worthy of admiration that makes our cinema bigger and more diverse,” Cerezo added.
The XI Platino Awards gala will be held at the Xcaret complex in the Riviera Maya this Saturday, April 20. These awards, which started in 2014 in Panama, were already held in Quintana Roo in 2019 and will return in 2026, since the next four editions will alternate between Xcaret and Madrid. The Spanish capital hosted the 2022 and 2023 editions.
Cecilia Roth’s career
Roth, who was born in Buenos Aires in 1956, began his acting training at age 16 while in high school. In 1975 he participated in the films “Don’t touch the babe” by Juan José Jusid and “Crecer de coup” by Sergio Renán. Two years later, Roth would settle in Spain, where he worked with directors such as José Luis Garci -“The Green Prairies” (1979)-, Pedro Masó -“The Family, Well Thank You” (1979)- and Juan José Porto -“The course we love Kim Novak” (1980).
Her participation in “Arrebato” (Iván Zulueta, 1979) established her as a cult figure in auteur cinema, a fact that would be confirmed in 1980, when she began a fruitful collaboration with Pedro Almodóvar, starring in iconic films such as “Pepi, Luci, Bom… and other ordinary girls” (1980), “Labyrinth of passions” (1982) and “Entre tinieblas” (1983).
During this time, his versatility was reflected in various films, such as “El Jardín Secreto” (Carlos Suárez, 1984) or the romantic drama “Segunda Piel” (1999) by Gerardo Vera, with whom he would repeat participation in 2002 with “Deseo”. He also left his mark on Spanish television such as in the series “The Adventures of Pepe Carvalho” (Adolfo Aristarain, José Manuel Larraz, 1984) or the television film “Everything goes wrong” (Emilio Martínez Lázaro, 1984).
Returning to Argentina as an established actress, she starred in projects such as “Deadly” (1986), by Adolfo Aristatain, with whom she would later work in key films in her filmography; “Ashes of Paradise” (Marcelo Piñeyro, 1997) or “Old Life of Mine” (Héctor Olivera, 2002). In addition, he participated in international co-productions such as the Mexican-American film “La Hija del Caníbal” (Antonio Serrano, 2003), the Italian “Luisa Sanfelice” (Hnos. Taviani, 2004) and the Chilean “Our Father” (Rodrigo Sepúlveda, 2005 ).
In 1998, she made history by becoming the first non-Spanish actress to win the Goya Award for Best Actress for her role in “Martín (Hache)” (Adolfo Aristarain, 1997). This success would be followed by her performance in the film “All About My Mother”, again with Almodóvar, which won the Oscar Award for Best Foreign Film in 1999.
In 2012 Almodóvar counted on her again for the film “Los Amantes Pasajeros”, and that same year she starred in “Matrimonio” (Carlos Jaureguialzo) alongside Darío Grandinetti and “Migas de pan” (Manane Rodríguez) in Uruguay.
Roth returned to Spain in 2018 to participate in the film “Pain and Glory” by Almodóvar and in the series “The Embarcadero.” Later he worked on “El Ángel” (Luis Ortega, 2018), “Family Crimes” (Sebastián Schindel, 2020) alongside Miguel Ángel Solá and “El Prófugo” (Natalia Meta, 2020). In 2022, she premiered “Conversations about Hate” by Vera Fowgill, and that same year she was called by Los Javis (Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo) to play Alicia in the award-winning series “La Mesías”.
Roth has received the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and presented by the Spanish Royal House. In addition, the Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival (ZINEBI) awarded him the Mikeldi of Honor in recognition of his interpretive freedom and maturity, and the Malaga Film Festival paid tribute to him with a retrospective in its 2019 edition.
· All about the Platinum Awards