Newly way, the Sitges Festival announced that actress Najwa Nimri, the director Paco Plaza and the post-production supervisor and sound designer Oriol Tarragó will be awarded in this edition and thus culminates the list of winners.

It's all about editing 53 of the International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, which previously announced to his other winners, whose list is headed by director David Lynch and the Nosferatu award to Manuel de Blas.

Born in Pamplona and of Jordanian-Spanish descent, Najwa Nimri will receive an Honorary Grand Prize in Sitges in its next edition. Nimri made his strong debut in "Jump into the void" (1995), one of the landmarks of state independent cinema, for which she won the award for Best European Actress at the Berlin Film Festival and begins a brilliant career that makes her one of the most outstanding Spanish actresses of her generation.

In the nineties, Nimri co-stars in one of the key films of European fantasy, "Open your eyes" (1997) Alejandro Amenabar. Later came other forays into the genre such as "Lovers of the Arctic Circle" (1998), "Fausto 5.0" (2001), "Verb" (2011) and "Who will sing to you" (2018). In addition to combining the cinema with his other great vocation, Pop music, He has also become a television star thanks to the series Vis a vis and La casa de papel.

Director, producer and scriptwriter, Paco Plaza will be awarded the Career Méliès Award for being one of the undisputed masters of Spanish terror of the last two decades. This award is granted by the Méliès International Festivals Federation, for his contribution to the fantastic. Plaza takes its first steps in the world of feature films with "The Second Name" (2002), “Romasanta” (2004) and "A Christmas Carol" (2005), a tv movie sponsored by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador.

Years later, together with his partner and friend Jaume Balagueró, makes history in the genre with “[REC]” (2007), film that begins one of the most celebrated horror sagas of the new millennium. With "Verónica" (2017) obtains a resounding success at the box office and seven nominations for the Goya Awards, and next year it will premiere "La abuela", a film written by Carlos Vermut.

Oriol Tarragó, post-production supervisor and sound designer, you will receive in Sitges 2020 an Honorary Mary in recognition of her cinematographic work. Tarragó, graduated from the Escuela Superior de Cine y Audiovisual de Catalunya (ESCAC), makes his first participation in a feature film with "El espinazo del diablo" (2001), by Guillermo del Toro. He has also designed the sound of films such as “[REC]” (2007), "Julia's eyes" (2008), "As you sleep" (2011), “Enemy” (2013), "Superlópez" (2018), "Enemy Cosmetics" (2020) and "Malnazidos" (2020), both in Sitges 2020. His collaboration with J.A. Bayonne, of who has made the sound of all the shorts and feature films, from "The orphanage" (2007) a “Jurassic World: the fallen kingdom " (2018). Tarragó has won four Goya awards and seven Gaudí, and in 2017 was distinguished by the European Film Academy as the best sound designer.