Producer and distributor Enrique Cerezo, Gold Medal from the Film Academy 2025

The Gold Medal of the Film Academy 2025, the organization's highest recognition, has been awarded to producer and distributor Enrique Cerezo, also president of EGEDA (entity for managing the rights of audiovisual producers) and engine of FlixOlé, a platform dedicated to Spanish cinema.

The Board of Directors of the institution has decided to award the Gold Medal to Cerezo for having contributed with his professional career to “improve Spanish cinema” with the restoration and recovery of so many Spanish films, for his work as president of EGEDA and with the creation of exhibition platforms for Spanish cinema in Spain and around the world. Juana la Loca, Moscow Gold, The Hour of the Brave, The Dog in the Manger, Yoyes, The Good Star, Tirano Banderas, My Big Night, The 13 Roses, The Spherical Letter, You're The One y 1898 The Last of the Philippines are just some of the more 90 stories that this highly recognized figure of Spanish cinema has produced.

Enrique Cerezo has stated that he feels “happy” for the Medal, stressing that he is “very proud that a work that we have been doing for almost 60 years is recognized.” “All the films I have made have a reason, they give you something: some because of how well the filming went, others because they worked at the box office, some because of the good memories they bring you… The one that has given me the most joy is The good star", confesses Cerezo, who has the largest catalog of Spanish feature films, more than 3,500, which he restores with the latest digital systems, as well as being the owner of Video Mercury Films, a huge film collection of 11,000 titles.

Patron of Honor of the Film Academy Foundation, began buying films 40 years ago and today has in its possession, in addition to numerous national feature films, most of the Italian classics, films from the legendary RKO and numerous North American television films. In recent years, Cerezo has also been focusing on cinematographic heritage is available for new generations: “At Cannes 2023, a 4K copy of Carmen and it was such a success that that same year Venice asked us The hunt. A 4K version of Death of a cyclist in the Lyon Light Festival; Hurry, hurry at the Berlinale; and at the last Malaga Festival it was exhibited Stealths. All the projections were filled with people applauding,” recalls this man from Madrid who worked as a projectionist during his time as a student in Segovia.

Enrique Cerezo, also owner of the TDT channel dedicated to cinema 8madrid TV, will collect next month mayo the Gold Medal, a distinction that has also been received by Adolfo Aristarain, Carme Elias, Esperanza Roy and Javier Aguirre, Diego Galán, José Salcedo, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Juan Diego, Antón García Abril, Ángela Molina, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, José Luis Alcaine, Rosa María Sardá, Carmen Maura, Maribel Verdú, Pablo Núñez, Geraldine Chaplin, Basilio Martín Patino, Antonio Banderas, Concha Velasco, Carmelo Bernaola, Fernando Fernán-Gómez, José Luis Borau, Gil Parrondo, Elías Querejeta, Sara Montiel, Ana Belén, Alfredo Matas, Paco Rabal, Carlos Saura and Fernando Rey, among others.