La Singla wins the Feroz Award for Non-Fiction
The documentary La Singla, directed by filmmaker Paloma Zapata, won the Feroz Award "Arrebato de No Ficción" (Non-Fiction) at the 11th edition of the awards, held in January 2024.
About the award
- Category: Feroz Award for Non-Fiction, a special recognition by the Spanish Association of Film Journalists (AICE) for works of outstanding artistic daring.
- Subject: the film tells the story of Antonia Singla, a deaf flamenco dancer from Barcelona who revolutionised the genre in the 1960s before mysteriously vanishing from the stage.
- Impact: it blends real investigation, suspense and the documentary form to rescue from oblivion one of the most powerful figures in Spanish culture.