FILE - In this Thursday, July 23, 2020 record photo, U.S. histrion Johnny Depp gestures to fans and the media arsenic helium arrives astatine the High Court successful London. Spains astir high-profile radical of pistillate filmmakers denounced the San Sebastian movie festivals determination to grant Johnny Depp its highest grant for acting connected Monday Aug. 9, 2021. The determination gives the festival a atrocious sanction aft a British justice ruled allegations of home unit against Depp were substantially correct, it says. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, file)

FILE - In this Thursday, July 23, 2020 record photo, U.S. histrion Johnny Depp gestures to fans and the media arsenic helium arrives astatine the High Court successful London. Spains astir high-profile radical of pistillate filmmakers denounced the San Sebastian movie festivals determination to grant Johnny Depp its highest grant for acting connected Monday Aug. 9, 2021. The determination gives the festival a atrocious sanction aft a British justice ruled allegations of home unit against Depp were substantially correct, it says. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, file) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

MADRID – Spain's starring radical of women filmmakers connected Tuesday condemned the San Sebastian movie festival’s determination to grant Johnny Depp its highest honor, saying it gave the planetary lawsuit a atrocious sanction aft a British justice ruled past twelvemonth that allegations of home unit against the histrion were “substantially correct".

Cristina Andreu, the President of Spain's Association of Female Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media, said she was “very surprised” by the decision, announced Monday, to grant Depp the Donostia Award astatine the festival’s 69th variation adjacent month. The grant is the event's apical prize and aims to grant beingness achievement.

“This speaks precise severely of the festival and its leadership, and transmits a unspeakable connection to the public: 'It doesn't substance if you are an abuser arsenic agelong arsenic you are a bully actor'," Andreu told The Associated Press.

The association, which has adjacent links to the San Sebastian festival, was “studying adjacent steps,” she added.

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The San Sebastian International Film Festival, held successful bluish Spain, takes spot Sept. 17-25 this year. Depp is expected to person the grant successful idiosyncratic connected Sept. 22, successful what volition beryllium his 3rd quality astatine the event.

An emailed petition for remark from Depp’s publicist successful Los Angeles went unanswered extracurricular bureau hours.

Last year, Depp mislaid a libel lawsuit against a British paper that accused him of home violence, with a justice ruling the allegations were “substantially correct.” In March, a British tribunal refused Depp support to entreaty the ruling that helium assaulted his erstwhile wife, Amber Heard, saying his effort to overturn the determination had “no existent imaginable of success.”

Depp besides is suing Heard for $50 cardinal successful Virginia implicit a Washington Post op-ed effort that she wrote astir home violence. The proceedings successful that lawsuit was precocious delayed until April 2022.

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