Esmeralda Pimentel and Májida Issa will present the XI PLATINO XCARET Awards gala, the event organizers reported this Thursday.
Both artists, Mexican and Colombian respectively, will be at the forefront of a celebration that will return on April 20 to the Mexican Xcaret Park in Riviera Maya to recognize the best Ibero-American productions of the season from the Gran Tlachco Theater with the coveted statuette.
The duo made up of both performers, the first female duo to front the gala, constitutes a couple of great relevance, an example of the enormous acting potential of Ibero-American cinema and series in a present in which audiovisuals in Spanish and Portuguese do nothing more than grow, surprising an audience that is increasingly aware of the quality of its productions.
Esmeralda Pimentel
Trajectory
With her debut in Verano de Amor, Esmeralda Pimentel’s career begins a trajectory of successes that have made her one of the hallmarks of contemporary Ibero-American audiovisual production. The television productions Abyss of Passion, Cachito de Cielo or De Que Te Quiero, Te Quiero confirmed her great value as an actress, which was soon reflected in her first leading role in El Color de la Pasión, which would be followed by those in La neighbor or Falling in love with Ramón.
His consecration as one of the best-known faces of the small and big screen in Spanish was determined by his intervention in fictions such as The candidate, from Prime Video, La temperanza, based on the novel of the same name by María Dueñas, the American The Good Doctor, Where There Was Fire or Beauty and the Beasts, the latter two distributed by Netflix, and the popular Monte Cristo, a contemporary adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ classic with actor William Levy. He has worked in films such as He Who Seeks, Finds, I’ll Charge You There or No Man’s Land, a film by Conor Allyn in which he shares credits with Andy McDowell, Frank Grillo and Jorge A. Jiménez.
The actress’s versatility has not only made her shine in soap operas and international film projects. Esmeralda has also demonstrated her talent on stage, with theatrical works such as Palomita Pop, Apuntes sobre la immediatez, winner of the UNAM International Theater Festival, Proyecto Scotland, La Dalia Negra or Enfermos de Amor, among others. Added to her interpretive side are creative and social initiatives such as participation in campaigns such as Together we are Peace, against femicides, Biutiful yo, claiming the existence of a universal beauty beyond the canons, or her union with the production company Ellas, focused on the role of women in front of and behind the cameras.
Majida Issa.
Actress and singer
Since her beginnings at the National School of Theater Art of Mexico, ENAT, Májida Issa has established herself as one of the most important artists in Colombia and Latin America. Her outstanding performances in theater, film and television have earned her countless awards and industry recognitions. Proof of this is the PLATINO Award for Best Supporting Female Performance for her participation in the series Noticia de un kidnapping obtained in the last edition. Corazones Blindados, La Ronca De Oro, La Vendedora De Rosas, Sin Senos Sí Hay Paraíso, Doble, Chavela, La Guzmán and Operación Pacífico are some of the successful productions that have shaped his career as a protagonist, going around the world as a performer of international prestige.
Added to this is her musical side, thanks to which, in addition to embodying great women of music of the importance of Helenita Vargas, Chavela Vargas or Alejandra Guzmán, she has cultivated a career as a solo singer since the launch of Nocturna in 2017, an album in which he compiles classics of ranchera music that earned him the Latin Grammy nomination for “Best album of ranchera-mariachi music”, a project that he has combined with his contribution to the group Planchando el despecho, where renowned Colombian singers pay tribute to great hits from the eighties to the present. At this moment, Májida is promoting her new film El Bolero De Rubén, the first Colombian musical film sung completely live, where she is the protagonist and associate producer; an initiative that adds to her recent intervention in the series La susubuta, which will be released next semester thanks to the ViX platform.
Background
In this edition, Esmeralda Pimentel and Májida Issa will take the baton that Carolina Gaitán, Omar Chaparro and Paz Vega picked up in 2023 after the gala was hosted by other audiovisual stars such as Lali Espósito and Miguel Ángel Muñoz, masters of ceremonies in the ninth edition of the awards, or Adal Ramones, Alessandra Rosaldo, Carlos Latre, Cecilia Suárez, Eugenio Derbez, Imanol Arias, Juan Carlos Arciniegas, Juana Acosta, Májida Issa, Natalia Oreiro, Luis Gerardo Méndez and Santiago Segura.
The eleventh edition of the event, accessible through television stations throughout America and the SmartPlatino TV platform, will reward, as every year, the best audiovisual productions in Spanish and Portuguese. Among the total of 44 nominated works, there are Argentine, Chilean, Costa Rican, Cuban, Ecuadorian, Spanish, Mexican, Peruvian, Portuguese, Puerto Rican and Venezuelan productions, which show the diversity of perspectives and stories that make the Ibero-American one of the industries with greater creative strength and growth capacity today.
As in previous celebrations, the PLATINO for Best Ibero-American Fiction Film will recognize the best Ibero-American feature film of the year, a category in which Cerrar los ojos (Víctor Erice, Spain, Argentina, La Mirada Del Adiós AIE; Tandem Films) competes this time. , SL; Nautilus Films, SL; Pecado Films, SL; Pampa Films SA), The Snow Society (Juan Antonio Bayona, Spain, Netflix; Misión de Audaces), The Criminals (Rodrigo Moreno, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Luxembourg , Wanka Cine; Les Films Fauves; Rizoma; Sancho&Punta; Jirafa; Rizoma Srl; Jaque Content) and Tótem (Lila Avilés, Mexico, Denmark, France, Limerencia Films; Laterna; Paloma Productions; Alpha Violet Production).
Likewise, Barrabrava (Argentina, Uruguay, Red Fish; Cimarrón Cine; Amazon Studios), El cuerpo en llamas (Spain, Arcadia Motion Pictures; Netflix), the second season of Iosi, compete for the award for Best Ibero-American Cinematographic Miniseries or Teleseries. , The Regretful Spy (Argentina, Burman Office; Amazon Studios) and the historical fiction The Thousand Days of Allende (Chile, Spain, Argentina, Parox SA; Mediterráneo Media; Aleph Cine).
The XI edition of the PLATINO XCARET Awards is possible thanks to the support and intense collaboration with the Ibero-American audiovisual of Quintana Roo, Riviera Maya, Grupo XCARET, the Community of Madrid, and the Madrid City Council.
The PLATINO Awards are promoted by EGEDA (Audiovisual Producers’ Rights Management Entity), with FIPCA (Ibero-American Federation of Cinematographic and Audiovisual Production. They have the support of UN Tourism, ICAA, the Ibero-American Film Academies and Institutes, FIACINE and WAWA, as well as with the collaboration of sponsors such as Amazon Prime, LaLiga, Iberia, Mayakoba, Hertz, L’ORÉAL Professionnel, AIE, CREA SGR, TNT, RTVE, Movistar+, Agencia EFE, ¡HOLA!, or The Hollywood Reporter; and they bring together the great talents of the industries of the 23 Ibero-American countries to praise the most outstanding productions and creators of each year with twenty-three awards and a PLATINUM Honor Award.
Since its first edition in 2014, they have been working on the dissemination of Ibero-American audiovisuals, so that the successes achieved in the most prestigious festivals also translate into excellent results in commercial theaters and that our films and fiction series have the distribution they deserve. .
