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Series Mania Awards: Lili Reinhart Takes Best Actress as Spain Scores Historic Double With ‘Querer,’ ‘Celeste’
Series Mania Awards, Lili Reinhart, ’Querer,’ ‘Empathy,’Moshe Zonder, Ronit Weiss Berkowitz, Luca Marinelli take top competition honors.
Meanwhile, Spain’s Movistar Plus+ scored a historic double, winning the top Grand Prize in main competition for Alauda Ruiz de Azua’s “Querer” and best series for Diego San José’s “Celeste,” co-produced with The Mediapro Studio, in the fest’s major sidebar. Series Mania winners Moshe Zonder, writer of “Fauda” Season 1 and “The Girl From Oslo” co-creator Ronit Weiss-Berkowitz, turn in a typically taut, suspense laden, twist-sluiced screenplay of waht looks like the story of a man’s search for redemption. Marinelli was always the front-runner for the best actor award at Series Mania, turning in a towering, tearaway performance capturing Mussolini’s gesticulating buffoonery, vacuousness – fascism is “a synthesis of all affirmations and negations,” he shouts – but uncanny ability to exploit ordinary people’s resentments.
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