A motion passed this Thursday in the Catalan Parliament has called on the Catalan Government to "reach a consensus" with the Catalan Film Academy "on the necessary strategies to define a specific category for films spoken entirely in Catalan within the Gaudí Awards." The motion, which included various items related to cultural policies, was presented by the Junts parliamentary group and approved with the votes of Junts, ERC, Comuns, CUP, and Aliança Catalana. In statements to ARA, the president of the Film Academy, Judith Colell, expressed her "great surprise" at the Parliament's demand. "The Gaudí Awards have had, since their first edition, a category dedicated exclusively to films in their original Catalan version, and it is the awards' flagship category," Colell pointed out. "And we didn't invent the original Catalan version. We abide by the regulations set by the Generalitat (Catalan Government)." The criteria that determine what is considered the original Catalan version stem from the Film Law that the Parliament of Catalonia approved in 2010 and which was drafted by the Ministry of Culture, then headed by Joan Manuel Tresserras.

The Torre Avenir, a building that forms part of the heritage complex designed by Enric Sagnier and bequeathed to the city of Barcelona by the industrialist Muñoz Ramonet, will become the headquarters of the Catalan Film Academy. The organization, founded 18 years ago, had been renting offices at the SGAE (Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers) headquarters. Now, for the first time, it will have its own permanent space, open to the public, where it can hold training sessions, presentations, meetings, and international screenings. "And even open-air cinema, in these wonderful gardens!" exclaimed Judith Colell, president of the Catalan Film Academy, standing in front of Muñoz Ramonet's stately home on Muntaner Street, where films such as [film titles missing] were shot. Snow White by Pablo Berger. The property that will house the Academy is adjacent to the main building - it had been the residence of the industrialist's mother - and is located at 26-28 Avenir Street.

Forty-six people, thirty-nine as victims and seven as witnesses, have spent the last eighteen months in the Acadèmia del Cinema Català's service for victims of gender-based violence. The figure almost triples that of the previous nineteen months of the service's existence: between May 2022 and December 2023, the Academy assisted seventeen people in total, 37% of whom it has assisted during 2024 and the first six months of 2025. In this last year and a half, 82% of sexual assaults occurred in the workplace, 11% in academic contexts, and 7% in couples or community settings.

Film production in Catalonia experienced one of its best years ever in 2024. This is the summary of the study prepared by the Audiovisual Production Observatory (OPA) of Pompeu Fabra University, which was published this Thursday by the Catalan Film Academy, coinciding with its traditional Summer Festival, which is being held at night in the Tres Xemeneies building, the future headquarters of the hub audiovisual Catalonia Media City. According to theReport on film production in Catalonia 2025Last year, a record number of 114 qualified films was reached, and the number of medium-budget productions tripled thanks to a significant increase in public investment. This figure is expected to reach 15% in 2023 and 15% compared to 2022. However, it should be noted that the industry's good performance goes beyond the Catalan framework and is a national phenomenon. Therefore, the specific weight of the Catalan industry in Spanish cinema as a whole has remained stable at around 30% since 2016, far from the four-figure number of qualified films. Incidentally, they do not include all films produced in Catalonia, since they exclude, for example, television films and short films. €18 this year. This figure triples the number of productions of this type in 2023, when only six titles enjoyed this budget. The Catalan Institute of Cultural Companies of the Generalitat (Catalan Institute of Cultural Companies) of the Generalitat (Generalitat). The increase in state contributions to the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts is more moderate, growing by 17% (67%) compared to 2023. Catalan film revenue is projected to reach €23.5 million in 2024, representing an even more significant year-on-year increase of 92%. The titles that have boosted Catalan production are House on fire and The 47, which they did Historical box office records for films in the original Catalan version, and the animated film Buffalo KidsThese three films account for 53% of the box office takings for Catalan films released in theaters in 2024. However, these are not record figures, and are still below the results obtained by Catalan cinema in 2022, when Tadeo Jones: The Emerald Table It became the commercial locomotive of Catalan cinema with 11.79 million euros at the box office.

The Catalan Academy of Cinema announced at the last Gaudí Awards gala that it was creating a department for attention and prevention of abuse in the audiovisual and performing arts sector, the first initiative of its kind in Catalonia and Spain. Two months later, the Academy has presented the department and explained that this initiative comes after having detected approximately 150 cases of abuse committed in public and private institutions in the sector. Of these 150, less than 10% ended up in court.