• The Lurra Award (Earth in Basque language) will be presented to the San Sebastián Film Festival motion picture which best symbolizes environmental protection and peace.

• The Lurra Award ceremony will take place on September 25th, a one night chance for actors, actresses and movie business people to become activists.
  

• On September 21st we will announce “Greenpeace style” the nominees and on the 23rd a film set will be installed to invite people to recreate a Greenpeace action.

The jury for the Lurra Award (Earth in Basque language) has been finalized. The San Sebastián Film Festival motion picture to best symbolize environmental protection and peace will be presented the award. Actress Bárbara Goenaga, producer and director Álvaro Longoria, writer and journalist Carlos del Amor, along with reporter and Greenpeace Communication Director Laura Pérez will select the winning film.

The Award will be presented on a ceremony on the evening of September 25th. The ceremony will be full of surprises and will merge the movie world and the activism world; an event where actors, actresses, and movie business people will become environmental activists for one night.

Along the Award ceremony we will carry out several activities during the week of the film festival to highlight the role films play in promoting environmental protection and peace, and to illustrate their capacity to mobilize people. On September 21st we will announce “Greenpeace style” the motion pictures nominated. On Wednesday 23rd Greenpeace will invite the public to become “activists for one day” by recreating an action scenario for people to take pictures as activists.

Jury Members:

Bárbara Goenaga
Actress. Since a little girl she has taken part in movie and TV productions. She has appear in many television series on Euskal Telebista (Basque Country public television), including the popular Goenkale. Despite her age she has appeared in over 20 television series (including two of the most popular ever Spanish television series Cuéntame and Amar es para siempre) and in over ten motion pictures, plus several stage plays. She was nominated for a Goya (Spanish Oscars) for Best Performance by a Newcomer Actress and she was awarded by the Unión de Actores (Actors’ Union). She has two movies coming out, Gernika by Koldo Serra and Pikadero by Ben Sharrock, the last to be presented at San Sebastián Film Festival.

Álvaro Longoria
Film director and producer, and founder of Morena Films production company. He was the producer of Che, movie directed by Steven Soderbergh and starting Benicio del Toro, ma ma Julio Medem’s new movie starting Penélope Cruz, and Altamira by Hugh Hudson, starting Antonio Banderas. He has also worked on documentaries such as Comandante by Oliver Stone and Hijos de las Nubes which he directed and for which Javier Bardem won a Goya. His new film The Propaganda Game will be presented this year at the San Sebastián Film Festival.

Carlos del Amor
Renowned journalist. His professional career is linked to the Arts Section of RTVE (Spanish National TV and Radio) News Programs. His unique storytelling has made him one of the most recognizable, personal, and followed newscaster on TV. He is a regular in radio programs providing his unique view on current events; he has covered the top film festivals in the world and has interviewed a great number of personalities from the arts. On 2013 he publish a short-stories book La vida a veces and 2015 saw the light of his novel El año sin verano.

Laura Pérez
Greenpeace Spain Communications Director. After graduating from college she worked for different media outlets. On radio stations like Radio Voz and Radio España she specialized in human rights, environmental and social issues. She worked for three years at newspaper Diario 16 where she was responsible for the social content. On television she worked for Tele5 and Globomedia. She is committed to social and environmental journalism and begun working at Greenpeace in 2002.