SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Aug. 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival Ciudad de La Laguna Isla Calavera has presented this Tuesday one of its honorary awards in recognition of a career to the American filmmaker John Malkovich, who is on the islands for the representation of the acclaimed show theatrical ‘The Infernal Comedy. Confessions of a serial killer’, within the programming of the Veranos del Taoro.
Isla Calavera has had the collaboration of the performing arts festival that is held these days in Puerto de la Cruz, directed by Enrique Camacho, to deliver the award.
The actor, producer and film director, winner of the Emmy Award for the television adaptation of the Broadway play ‘Death of a Salesman’ and nominated for an Oscar for his roles in ‘In a Place of the Heart’ (1984), his first film, and ‘In the line of fire’ (1994), he received the Isla Calavera de Honor Award with enthusiasm and expressed his desire to visit the contest in the future.
In his fantastic genre filmography, titles such as ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ (1988), ‘Con Air’ (1997), ‘Jennifer 8’ (1992), ‘The Man in the Iron Mask’ (1998), ‘The Shadow of the vampire’ (2000), in which he gave life to Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, ‘Eragon’ (2006), ‘Beowulf’ (2007), ‘Jonah Hex’ (2010), ‘RED’ (2010) and its sequel, ‘ Bird Box: Blindly’ (2018) or ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ (2019).
The Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival Ciudad de La Laguna Isla Calavera will celebrate its seventh edition from November 10 to 19, with a program that will revolve around the 90th anniversary of ‘King Kong’ and will feature the American actor Sam J. Jones as first confirmed guest. The protagonist of the 1980 classic ‘Flash Gordon’ will collect the Legend of Fantastic Award. A new programming preview will be announced soon.
