Director Raúl de la Fuente and producer Amaia Remírez won their second Goya Award on Saturday, with Un día más con vida, a feature film inspired by the novel by Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński. Raúl de la Fuente is the director of many productions produced all over the world by "Misiones Salesianas", the Salesian Mission Office in Madrid. In recent years he has traveled around the world with the operators of "Misiones Salesianas" and thanks to him it has been possible to make Salesian work among the most disadvantaged young people known to many people.
In addition to Un día más con vida, a few months ago he directed and presented the documentary Love, which denounces child prostitution in Sierra Leone. Love was then presented in numerous institutional offices, Salesian works and centers all over the world to make people everywhere know and learn about Salesian projects in favor of minors in danger and of abandoned girls.
Previously, in recent years, the director worked with the Salesian Missions in productions such as Hijos de Haití (Children of Haiti), No estoy en venta (They are not for sale), Yo no soy bruja (I am not a witch), 30,000 and Diamantes en Lixeira (Diamonds in Lixeira), and Alto el Fuego (Cease Fire).
"Currently," reports Raúl de la Fuente, "we are working on a new project that is already in progress. It is a short documentary entitled El Infierno which will be ready in June." And the fresh winner of the Goya Prize is also working on a joint project with the Salesian Central Office, the Salesian Missionary Offices, and the Dicastery for the Missions, Youth Ministry and Social Communications, for the production of three short films on the theme of vocations in different cultural contexts, with the title "Terra di Missione".
In this 33rd edition of the Goya Awards, a Spanish Salesian past pupil, Jesús Vidal, was also awarded. When he received the award, he said "three words came to mind: inclusion, diversity and visibility". He is the first visually impaired to win a Goya Award for an interpretation in a film, in this case as "Actor Revelation" in the film Campeones.
