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London Spanish Film Festival
2020 JURY

This year the Jury who awarded the Best Film prize was formed by:

Marco Gambino Peter Guttridge Greta Scacchi    
MARCO GAMBINO PETER GUTTRIDGE
GRETA SCACCHI
ABOUT THE JURY

MARCO GAMBINO

Marco Gambino is an Italian actor who's been working extensively in the UK and abroad. His career spans from theatre to television and films. He has appeared in some of the most popular Italian and British television series including Young Montalbano, Emmerdale, The Boss of the Bosses, Squadra antimafia, Romolo and Giuly. Films include the International, il Traditore.

 

Marco is also known for a number of theatre monologues which he normally interprets in more than one language amongst which Words of Honour, Othello's Guilt and Maria Callas: The Black Pearl.

 

Marco's love for classical music has led him to various collaborations with world acclaimed musicians amongst whom more recently the Brazilian pianist Marcelo Bratke.

PETER GUTTRIDGE

Award winning crime novelist Peter Guttridge has been a freelance film journalist for most of the 'posh' British newspapers – The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Observer and The Independent.

 

He has also specialised in reviewing Spanish and Latin American literature in translation for these newspapers.

GRETA SCACCHI

Greta Scacchi is an Italian/Australian actress whose international film career began in 1983 with her starring role in James Ivory's arthouse hit Heat & Dust.

 

Since then she had worked in many countries and languages with, amongst others, directors Margarethe Von Trotta, Dušan Makaveyev, Andrej Konchalovsky, Diane Kurys, the Taviani brothers, Michael Blakemore, Alan Pakula, Robert Altman, Gillian Armstrong, Wolfgang Peterson, Michael Radford, Mike Figgis, Francois Girauld, Carole Morley, Tom Hooper, Kate Woods, Gianni Amelio, Rachel Ward and Ciro Guerra.

 

Films include Good Morning Babylon, White Mischief, Presumed Innocent, The Player, The Red Violin, Looking for Alibrandi, Jefferson in Paris and, more recently BBC's War & Peace.

 

Greta has played in the theatre in the UK, Australia, France and Italy and her voice can be heard regularly in radio drama and narration.

 

She has participated in many film festival juries including Cannes, Istanbul, Venice, Bari, Deaville, Montreal, Saint Tropez, Angoulême, Otranto and Sydney's Tropfest.

THE LONDON SPANISH
FILM FESTIVAL
takes place at:
Ciné Lumière
at the Institut Français
17 Queensberry Place
South Kensington
London SW7 2DT
Box Office:
020 7871 3515
www.institut-francais.org.uk
Riverside Studios
101 Queen Caroline Street
Hammersmith
London W6 9BN
Box Office:
020 8237 1010
www.riversidestudios.co.uk