- The film Dantza de Telmo ESNAL has received the award from the Association of Euskadi Film Theaters, in the Donostiarra Kursaal. Esnal’s work has received recognition of its contribution to the Basque film industry, as well as its success, trajectory, quality and originality. After being presented in the official section of Zinemaldia last year, it has had over 42,000 spectators in the cinemas of the Basque Country. It has also been shown in a dozen film festivals around the world. In 2017 he received the Glocal Industry in Progress Award at the San Sebastian Festival and in 2018 the Glocal in Progress Award.
Director Telmo Esnal, Marian Fernández and Paola Moto of Txintxua Film, and members of Argia Juan Antonio Urbeltz, Jexux Larrea, Fernando Aristizabal and Iñaki Arrangi have participated in the awards ceremony. At the time he received the prize, ESNAL said that the real prize is to make the film and now re-meet with the dantzaris. "Movies are ours until they're put on a screen. The film isn't mine, it's not Txintxua's, it's the public's."
Urbeltz wanted to make a nod to the symbolism of the dances, which is behind the dances that we have seen on the big screen, and has said that in the film it looks "a traditional world engraved with X-rays". The producer Marian Fernández thanked the technicians and the dancers who have collaborated in the film that "without the collaboration of Juan Antonio Urbeltz and the Argia group, it would have been impossible to carry it out".
Managers of the Basque cinemas began to award the prize in 2015. In the first edition the film LOREAK was awarded; in 2016 the film loves; in the third edition the filmmaker Juanba Berastegi was honored and last year the film Handia was recognized.