Romanian actress Olimpia Melinte nominated to Goya awards

At the Spanish film awards named Goya, Romanian actress Olimpia Melinte was nominated at Best New Actress category, for her double role played in Canibal, a movie directed by Manuel Martin Cuenca. The Spanish ceremony is similar to American Oscar celebration, and it will take place on Febraury 9, in Madrid, Spain.

The movie of Manuel Martin Cuenca was nominated by the Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences of Spain at eight categories out of 28.

According to the official press release, the international press considered that the discovery of Olimpia Melinte was the best thing that could have happened to the director Manuel Martin Cuenca.

In addition, the Romanian actress noted that “is difficult to come from another country and to be accepted in an foreign film industry, so powerful as the Spanish one. I loved both of the roles and I worked really good with the Spanish team”.

About Canibal movie

Carlos (Antonio de la Torre) works as a tailor in Granada, one of Spain’s sleepy southern cities where time seems to have stopped — and where things that lurk in the shadows can remain unnoticed. Carlos lives alone and rarely interacts with anyone beyond his clients. No one would imagine that this shy and respectable tradesman is actually a murderer and a cannibal, remorselessly targeting Eastern European women who have no papers and filling his freezer with their flesh. Then the truly unexpected occurs: Nina (Olimpia Melinte), the Romanian twin sister of one of his victims, appears at his front door, and love slowly creeps in.