Platino Awards

Platino Awards
Current: 11th Platino Awards
Awarded forExcellence in cinematic achievements
LocationIbero-America
Presented byEntidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA), Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA)
First awarded5 April 2014; 10 years ago (2014-04-05)
Websitepremiosplatino.com

The Platino Awards, known in Spanish as Premios Platino del Cine Iberoamericano ('Platinum Prizes of Ibero-American Cinema'), are Ibero-America's annual film awards.[1]

The awards were established in 2013, and the first awards ceremony took place on 5 April 2014 at the Teatro Anayasi, Panama City. The ceremony continues to take place annually between April and July, and awards are given to films produced during the previous year.

The award itself is a platinum figure with the shape of a woman offering the world with Latin America's map on the center, it was created by designer Javier Mariscal.[2]

  1. ^ "Premios Platino" (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  2. ^ "Trofeo" (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2016.