The president of Atlético de Madrid, Enrique CerezoProducer and Distributor of Film, who collected on Tuesday the Gold Medal of the 2025 Academy, has assured that “worked on the two professions in which everyone would like to work, football and cinema”, but that it “lacks hours.”
“I have worked in the two professions in which everyone would like to work, football and cinema, I have been lucky, but I am missing hours to continue working (…). It is always committed to the new production, but there are also things that have already been done that they are very important and that they cannot forget or let them malcuido, “Cerezo said hours before collecting the prize.
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In the press act in the morning, Cerezo He was “happy and grateful” for the award, joked with the journalists and demonstrated a clear inclination for Spanish comedy, admitting to be “fan of these people who make cinema to enjoy, cinema who likes it, who entertains (…) and who does not think about anything”, remarking in his speech the figure of Santiago Segura.
Enrique Cerezo, gold medal of the Film Academy.
The Film Academy communicated the delivery of this award last April, which on Tuesday received for its work of restoration and distribution of films and the position that the entity for the management of audiovisual producers (EGEDA) served as president.
The rojiblanco leader has a 11,000 -title film background, One of the world's largest catalogs according to the Academy, which also includes 3,500 of its films, being 'the good star' (1997) its favorite.
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These films, “their daughters”, represent an added risk that differentiates them from football. In their opinion, the premieres show clear defeats or victories that are more difficult to overcome than the performance of a team.
The differences are clear, but the common points are the personalities of the protagonists of both worlds: “Players are like movie stars and film stars are like players, Anyway, they have many things in common (…). The only difference, which during a season you can surprise many days and you can approve others and yet in the cinema, when you start, over the weekend you approve or surprise, “the future medalist told Efe.
Cerezo is a producer, promoter of the Spanish film exhibition platform Flixolé, and film distributor, therefore, always bets on the new work, but also for the most classic filmography in Spain.
The gold medal that also rewards its activity as a restorative of classic Spanish films, of which “half are practically digitized and arranged”, although the arduous task “is not a job of today or tomorrow”, but they basically dedicate 24 hours a day.
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The heritage that represents its cinematographic background is “very well preserved”, And above all “very well prepared for people, the new generations, enjoy that cinema that was made at an era” to “know what their country or other countries was like at that time,” said Cerezo, who continues to bet on this unparalleled art, which in his words “He will not die nunca”.
