Guitarricadelafuente and Los Javis Win Miami Film Festival Honours for La Bola Negra
Musician Guitarricadelafuente has been presented with the Virtuoso Award at the Miami Film Festival. His directors, Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, known together as Los Javis, received the Visionary Director Award, according to Variety.
The honours are for La Bola Negra, a film in which Guitarricadelafuente plays a leading role. It is his first acting role. He is mainly known as a musician, and his album Spanish Leather debuted in 2025.
The film premiered at Cannes in May, where it received a 20-minute standing ovation. Cannes is the French festival where distributors and critics gather each spring, and a long ovation there is a notable moment for any film.
On Nov. 4, Guitarricadelafuente and Los Javis took part in a Q&A with Ramin Setoodeh, co-president and co-editor-in-chief of Variety. The event was held in partnership with the Miami Film Festival.
The film is inspired in part by a play by Alberto Conejero. Conejero also co-wrote the screenplay with Los Javis. In the story, Rafael, played by Miguel Bernardeau, and Sebastián, played by Guitarricadelafuente, sit at the centre of the drama.
Casting Sebastián took an unusual route. Los Javis approached Guitarricadelafuente with only the "essence of the character," and there was no audition. Variety reports that Calvo cooked him tortilla de patatas, a Spanish potato omelette, at the couple's home while they talked through the role.
Ambrossi told Variety that he did not know the film would work until Guitarricadelafuente agreed to take part. For a first-time actor and a film built around a single role, that moment of commitment carried weight for the directors.
Miami's honours add to a festival run that began at Cannes. Festivals like Miami help a film reach audiences and buyers, and their awards give the film a public profile before a wider release.
