While speaking to Variety ahead of receiving a Donostia Career Achievement Award from the San Sebastian Film Festival , García reflected on her mixed feelings: “It is a great honor – and an enormous responsibility – for me to receive this award. This is the first time it has been given to someone who is not an actor or actress, or a director. The fact that I’ve been considered worthy of it as a producer means that all eyes are on me – on how I will explain or represent this choice.”

“I feel truly happy, yet at the same time overwhelmed by the responsibility of being the first,” she says: adding: “I entered the world of cinema almost by chance—working as a production secretary on Pedro Olea’s film, ‘Pim, pam, pum… ¡fuego!,’ back in 1975. Not even in my wildest dreams did I imagine I wo

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