The second edition of the DRAC awards, organized by RAC1 to distinguish people and projects that have promoted changes and improvements in our society, held its second edition this Monday at L'Auditori de Barcelona with a memorable gala in which they collected their distinctions Pablo Vidarte, executive director of Bioo, the Espigoladors Foundation, the La Fageda cooperative, the actor Quim Llisorgas, the singer and writer Imane Raissali (Miss Raisa), the Nuclia technology company, the LactApp application, the Ideal center, the Cuideo company and the filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona. The gala was attended by numerous authorities headed by the Vice President of Parliament, Alba Vergés; the head of the opposition, Salvador Illa; the CEO of the Godó Group, Carlos Godó, and the group's General Business Director, Xavi de Pol.
In a gala presented by Marc Giró, the first to receive the award was the founder of Bioo, Pablo Vidarte, in the SOSteniblitat-Person category, for having designed the possibility of generating energy through natural substances without harming the environment. The SOStenibilidad-Proyecto award has gone to the Fundació Espigoladors, for fighting against food waste and creating job opportunities for groups at risk of social exclusion and which has been collected by its president and co-founder, Mireia Barba.
The DRAC SOStenibilidad-trajectory has been awarded to the co-founders of La Fageda, Cristóbal Colón and Carme Jordà, for their commitment for more than 40 years to improve the quality of life and promote the social integration of people in vulnerable situations in the region of La Garrotxa.
The most emotional and applauded moment of the gala was when the actor Quim Llisorgas received the 'Stories with soul' award. The winner, who plays the character of Hèctor in the series Com si fos ahir (TV3), suffers from Joubert syndrome, a rare disease that affects the brain but has not prevented him from fulfilling his dream of being a professional actor. "This award is a recognition of those people who are fighting every day for a society without labels," said the interpreter, who wanted to thank his mother "for fighting against everything and everyone and not accepting what the doctors told her about me".
As voice of the year, a new category of the awards in this edition, Imane Raissali, Miss Raisa, born in Morocco, has been awarded for emphasizing that stereotypes are broken through her music and gives visibility to what lives around her. to racism, religion, machismo or inequality of opportunities.
More awarded in technological innovation have been the co-founders of Nuclia, Eudald Camprubí and Ramon Navarro, a start-up company that is developing a system that will index all the data that a company generates, such as audio, video, documents and emails, among other things, to download in a search engine In innovation in lifestyle, Alba Padró and Maria Berruezo, managers of LactApp, the first application dedicated to breastfeeding and maternity that resolves doubts in a personalized way, the world leader with more than 700,000 downloads and present in 180 countries, received an award.
The IDEAL center, through its general director Jordi Sellas, has received the award for cultural innovation for being a space with unique technological equipment in Spain dedicated to the exhibition, production and training of immersive digital arts. The wellness innovation prize went to Cuideo, for its commitment to helping families care for the elderly and dependent people at home thanks to advanced technology that finds the ideal caregiver for each patient. The award was collected by its founding team: Adrià Buzón, Roberto Valdés, Guillermo Molina, Marta Cuesta and Alejandro Valdés.
Finally, the Tots Som 1 award, decided by popular vote, has been awarded to the filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona, director of the first two installments of the series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which premiered in September breaking records audience on Amazon Prime Video. The filmmaker, who has thanked his parents for helping him learn "the value of cinema but also of culture and painting", has highlighted the difficulty of directing a film, "something I would never do without the people who She accompanies me, a lot of her from the ESCAC era”.
The most well-known voices of RAC1 such as Jordi Basté, Anna Vallhonesta, Noemí Polls, Albert Om, Joan Maria Pou, Xavi Bundó or Mònica Usart, the actress Natalia Sánchez and the journalist Laura Fa have been in charge of delivering the awards of this second edition of the DRAC awards, which has the sponsorship of Aigües de Barcelona, CaixaBank, KIA, Factor Energia, FIATC Assegurances, Unión Suiza, Vueling and the Generalitat de Catalunya and the performances of Sideland, Ruth Lorenzo and the magician Jordi Caps.
