Sitges honours Alejandro Amenábar alongside a restored Tesis

Sitges’s October 12 festival report confirms that Alejandro Amenábar received this year’s Méliès Career Award during Sunday’s programme. The ceremony accompanied a restored screening of Tesis, thirty years after the director’s debut.

Sitges’s October 12 festival report confirms that Alejandro Amenábar received this year’s Méliès Career Award during Sunday’s programme. The ceremony accompanied a restored screening of Tesis, thirty years after the director’s debut. Eduardo Noriega joined Amenábar at the presentation. The festival says the version

screened included a new sound remaster, with the director reflecting on seeing the film again before a full cinema. Amenábar also said he is preparing a new suspense feature and hopes to premiere it at Sitges. The report supplies no title or release date for that project. The same festival day honoured Bárbara Rey with

the Nosferatu Award for her career in Spanish genre cinema. Read the official source. Image: Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival; official Alejandro Amenábar award photograph.

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