In 2012 La Recua created a play, based in part on my book about Alice Guy, entitled Alicia en la Sombra de las Maravillas. They also awarded their very first Alice Guy Award to Ana Pastor and Josefina Molina. The awards are hand made by Luís María García, in the shape of oil lamps with Alice Guy's image on them. On November 29, 2013, La Recua Teatro bestowed their second of these yearly awards this year to Iranian filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf, Iranian filmmaker, and to Dulce Chacón, poet, novelist and dramatist, whose prize was accepted by her daughter Dolores.
Ms. Makhmalbaf's biography, according to IMDB:
Born in Tehran, Samira is the daughter of director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. She got her first taste of the cinema when she was eight, playing a cameo role as a little girl in her father's film The Cyclist (1987). After leaving school at 15 because she found the teachers incompetent, she began learning to make films, mostly by watching and assisting her father but also in a film course at a private school. She directed two short videos, a drama entitled "Desert" and a documentary entitled "Style in Painting." In 1998, she worked as an assistant to her father on his film The Silence (1998) (The Silence), which was shown at the 1998 Montréal World Film Festival. Her first film was The Apple (1998), which was a hit at many international film festivals. She was also the youngest member of the jury at the Locarno International Film Festival in 1998. Her second film, Blackboards (2000), received major acclaim throughout the world and picked up a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Her third film, At Five in the Afternoon(2003), and her segment in the anthology September 11 (2002) have established Ms. Makhmalbaf's place as a major talent in Iranian New Wave cinema and on the international film circuit.