Fénix Awards

Fénix Awards
Awarded forMerits of Ibero-American film productions
CountryMexico
Presented byCinema23
First awarded2014
Websitehttp://premiosfenix.com/ Edit this on Wikidata

The Fénix Awards (Spanish: Premios Fénix) were an annual ceremony of awards celebrated in Mexico City and presented by the association Cinema23 recognising excellence in the Ibero-American film industry. They were delivered from 2014 to 2018.

History

Juana Acosta holding the egg-like trophy at the 2018 awards

Presented by the association Cinema23 (created in turn in 2012),[1] the awards were created in 2014 to honor works in the Ibero-American film industry.[2] The first ceremony took place in October 2014 in Mexico City, only some months after the celebration of the 1st Platino Awards (with the same Ibero-American scope) in Panama City.[3]

The statuette was designed by Brazilian artist Artur Lescher.[4]

In 2019, reportedly due to "budget" constraints and in the wake of unsuccessful negotiations with the Government of Mexico City [es], the presenter reported the indefinite (but "not definitive") cancellation of the awards and parallel events after 5 ceremonies, bemoaning a lack of enough support from both the national and local incoming governments.[2][1]

Editions

Christian Meier and Bárbara Mori at the 2015 Fénix Awards.

See also

References

Citations
  1. ^ a b "Los Premios Fénix de cine fueron cancelados: su organización acusó falta de apoyo del gobierno mexicano". Infobae. 1 April 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Cancelan indefinidamente los Premios Fénix de Cine Iberoamericano". La Vanguardia. 6 June 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Tras cinco ediciones se cancelan los Premios Iberoamericanos Fénix, impulsados por Cinema23". Audiovisual451. 2 April 2019.
  4. ^ Cerdán & Fernández Labayen 2019, p. 3.
  5. ^ Corona, Sonia (31 October 2014). "El 'Oscar iberoamericano' levanta el vuelo en México". El País.
  6. ^ ""El club" la mejor película en los Premios Fénix". Chicago Tribune. 25 November 2015.
  7. ^ "Lista de ganadores de los Premios Fénix 2016". Telemundo. 8 December 2016.
  8. ^ "Varias producciones españolas brillaron en los Premios Fénix 2017". Audiovisual451. 12 December 2017.
  9. ^ Valencia, Sebastián (8 November 2018). "Premios Fénix 2018: Lista completa de ganadores". Cine Premiere.
Bigliography
  • Cerdán, Josetxo; Fernández Labayen, Miguel (2019). "The Institutionalisation of Ibero-American Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: The Fénix and PLATINO Awards". Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. Translated by Derbyshire, Philip. Routledge. doi:10.1080/13569325.2019.1641477. ISSN 1356-9325.