Pere Portabela, City of Barcelona 2007 award

The Barcelona City Hall has announced that the City of Barcelona 2007 Award for audiovisual work has been unanimously given to Mr. Pere Portabella for his film Die Stille vor Bach (The Silence Before Bach).

The president of the jury, Lluís Bonet Mojica and the other members, Conxita Casanovas, Andrés Hispano, Eduard de Vicente and Montserrat Martí, have wanted to single out his work in “making the cinema an instrument for reflection, investigation and a connection to the other arts”.  The ceremony for the City of Barcelona 2007 Awards will take place, for all the categories included, on February 13 in the Palau de la Música Catalana.   The film has been a success in its premier in the cinema art theater circuit in Spain.