Manuel Barreiro Rozados wins the María Luz Morales Award
The GEA resercher was awarded in the category ‘Best written essay on international audiovisuals’.
On Tuesday 12th, the Galician Audiovisual Academy presented the awards for the eighth edition of the María Luz Morales Awards for essays and video essays on audiovisuals. In this edition, two video essays and two written essays were awarded. This pioneering initiative has the backing of the four Galician provincial councils. The awards ceremony took place at the Pazo Provincial de la Diputación de Pontevedra.
GEA researcher Manuel Barreiro Rozados won the María Luz Morales Award for Best Written Essay on International Audiovisuals with a paper entitled ‘Digital resurrection and deepfakes. The challenges of artificial intelligence in a hyperreal audiovisual’, which was described by the jury as “interesting in that it warns of political, economic, ethical or environmental implications without falling into defeatism and with managed irony”.
The awards are named in honour of María Luz Morales (A Coruña, 1889 – Barcelona, 1980), a pioneer of film criticism in Spain and a leading figure in 20th century cultural journalism. Morales began her activity in 1924, signing under a male pseudonym, and became the first woman to direct a national newspaper, La Vanguardia, during the Spanish Civil War.