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Who is Carla Quílez? Discover the 14-year-old actress who has revolutionized the San Sebastian Festival.
She was only thirteen years old when, without ever having imagined it, her life would take a 180-degree turn. It was then when, almost by chance and despite having no training as an actress, she began to shoot her first film. A novel work that, who was going to tell her, has meant for her a real boom in her still adolescence.
Her name is Carla Quílez and, after blowing out her fourteen candles, she has just revolutionized the San Sebastian Festival after becoming the youngest performer in the history of the prestigious event to win the coveted Silver Shell. A surprise that comes for her leading role in La maternal, where she plays a girl who becomes pregnant prematurely and must deal with the drama that entails.
The emotional dedication to her mother
A hard and moving film directed by filmmaker Pilar Palomero, great winner of the penultimate edition of the Goya Awards with her acclaimed film Las Niñas. Carla's innate talent has made this story, rich in nuances ranging from resilience and bravery to fear and abandonment, credible to the public, a feature film that will arrive in Spanish theaters on November 18 with an unbeatable poster behind it.
As she collected her award on the stage, without hiding her concealer while smiling, the winner shed tears of emotion and made her most special dedication: "There is no time or money to thank my mother for everything she has done for me," she said while also remembering the "warrior and fighter women" that exist in real life. Carla was the big surprise of the closing gala of the 70th edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival along with Frenchman Paul Kircher, who won the same award ex aequo for his film Le Lycéen/Winter Boy, by Cristophe Honoré.
A passionate dancer
To get here, the story of Carla Quílez is really curious since she was selected thanks to the videos that she herself shared on Instagram and caught the attention of the director. Before being an actress, she is a dancer and belongs to the Quality Dance Studio school in Badalona, where she shows off her numbers and choreographies to the rhythm of the music. Once she was called and passed the casting of La maternal, she joined a cast that also includes Ángela Cervantes, winner of the Gaudí in 2021 for the film Chavalas.
"At first I didn't even know what award it was and it has been all very sudden, but I'm taking it well," Carla Quílez acknowledged this Monday. "I didn't prepare anything special for the role. It was all very smooth and with the help of the girls, who had real experiences being single mothers, I have learned," she said in statements to Rac 1.
"It is very important to win it and it makes me rethink things", she admitted, since "the doors to the world of cinema have opened for me and now we are looking at other projects to continue along this path". Eva Alonso, her mother, confesses in the same microphones to be somewhat frightened by the abrupt success that has come to her daughter. "Her brother and I told her not to have birds in her head", she said, but "I will always accompany her in the dreams and paths she takes", she remarked.
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Catalan Carla Quílez, 14 years old, best actress at Sant Sebastià Festival
The big surprise of the night at the Sant Sebastià Film Festival was this name: Carla Quílez. At only 14 years old, she won the Best Actress Award, becoming the youngest actress to achieve this distinction.
Born in Barcelona, Quílez has triumphed with her first film, La maternal, by Pilar Palomero -the director of the award-winning Las niñas-. Quílez, a debutant actress, received the award with emotion, her eyes narrowed, and dedicated her speech to her mother.
The film talks about fighting mothers and I want to dedicate the award to my mother.——Carla Quílez
In the film, Carla Quílez plays a teenage mother. It is a feature film that explains how a group of teenagers face the fact of being pregnant. In her speech, Quílez also had a few words for her filming partners and for women in general. At the festival, the actress shared the award with Paul Kircher, for Le Lycéen.
Quílez made her debut almost by chance. Someone recommended the director to take a look at Quílez's Instagram and Palomero listened to her and liked what she saw. After three months of casting, the 14-year-old actress became part of the cast, along with Ángela Cervantes, winner of last year's Gaudí for best cast actress for Chavalas.
Quílez, moreover, competed with actors and actresses, with men and women, because, since last year, the Sant Sebastià Festival has unified the awards for acting and no longer gives gender-differentiated awards.