Sílvia Munt (Barcelona, 1957) is an actress, screenwriter, and director. Last Gaudí Award of Honor. In the autumn, she will premiere a documentary film about Mercè Rodoreda and will direct the play Panorama des del pont.

She was born in the Clot neighborhood, in Barcelona. “But I spent my early childhood and also part of my adolescence in the Canary Islands, because my mother is French but her father is from the Canary Islands. On the one hand, I feel very urban, very much from the neighborhood. My father was from Clot. But, on the other hand, the island, the way of understanding life there... is important to me... And I am a bit of this mix”.

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The Gaudí d'Honor is an award that usually recognizes retired creators or those nearing retirement, but this is not the case here. Silvia Munt (Barcelona, ​​1957), who has just directed a documentary about Mercè Rodoreda and is immersed in the production of a short film for the Grec Festival and in April will begin preparing an edit of View from the bridge, by Arthur Miller, which will premiere in October. "And then I want to bring my Rodoreda documentary to the stage, and I'm already writing my next film," he adds tirelessly. The Little Dove of The Diamond Square She was a symbol of Catalan cinema, but she has gone from being that actress with expressive eyes to becoming one of the most restless, committed, and hardworking directors. This Sunday, the Film Academy will celebrate her.

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