TCM sponsors the TCM Youth Award at San Sebastian Festival’s 71th edition

For the fifth year running, TCM will sponsor the Youth Award at the coming edition of the San Sebastian Festival, to take place from September 22-30.

The jury deciding the award is made up of 150 young people, between the ages of 18 and 25, who will watch and award points to each film after its screening. The qualifications and ranking of favourites is updated daily and can be followed in the Festival’s official media.

The movies competing for the TCM Youth Award are all those screening in the New Directors section and the first or second features by filmmakers presenting their works in Horizontes Latinos. The number of titles exceeds twenty, meaning that the members of the jury undertake to watch between two and three films a day.

The award will be presented on Saturday September 30, with the presence of a representative of TCM in Spain, together with a celebrity from the movie world and a member of the youth jury to be announced while the Festival is underway.

Bibiana González, Programme Director for Warner Bros. Discovery’s General Entertainment Channels in Spain, said: “We are very pleased to collaborate once again with this festival, which looks to the future with its selection of the best recent national and international productions, while at the same time highlights the best cinema in history. That is why in this edition, in which TCM commemorates together with Warner Bros. the centenary of the studio, we celebrate that these young talents approach this festival that opens its doors to them with a fresh look and that, at the same time, they can see in TCM a brand that cares for and loves the film legacy from which we drink today. The San Sebastian TCM Youth Award is the best symbol of these values”.

TCM has been sponsoring the Youth Award since 2019. Up and running in Spain for more than two decades, the TV channel has close ties with the San Sebastian Festival. For several editions it sponsored the Audience Award, special seasons and the Zinemaldia Get-togethers.

TCM presents a selection of the greatest movie classics of all time, from the big Hollywood studio productions to the most exciting independent films. TCM offers its movies in programming specials screened with interviews and production pieces helping to set the context, both on the channel and in its on-demand services. Up and running for more than two decades, the TCM brand has close ties with the San Sebastian Festival and with a variety of national and international cinematic events.

TCM Now is the TCM TV brand’s video on-demand service, available on Movistar Plus +. Under the TCM Now label, viewers will find many of the greatest movie classics of all time, and the complete catalogue of TCM’s own production content made up of award-winning documentaries on movie themes (El crítico, A Forbidden Orange, The Last Farewell of Bette Davis, 2001 Sparks in the Dark, Nostromo: David Lean’s Impossible Dream…), reports, programmes and interviews with important figures from the world of the cinema and culture.

TCM is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, the leading entertainment company. It is available in Spain on the pay TV platforms Movistar Plus+ (dial 22), Vodafone (dial 54), Orange TV (dial 28), Euskaltel (dial 9), R (dial 3), Telecable (dial 23), Virgin Telco (dial 22), Tivify (dial 30) and through Agile TV (dial 25).

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