'The Fault' actor Gabriel Guevara arrested at Venice Film Festival

Spanish actor Gabriel Guevara got arrested on Saturday for a sexual assault case. He was in Venice fo the annual film festival

Spanish actor Gabriel Guevara was arrested on Saturday at the ongoing Venice Film Festival. According to reports, the actor had an active international warrant out on him for an alleged sexual assault in France. The actor is known for Prime Video series 'My Fault (Culpa Mia). 

Guevara had travelled to Venice Film Festival to participate in the Il Filming Italy Best Movie Award, a peripheral non-official event taking place in Hotel Excelsior on Sunday. He was due to receive the event’s il Filming Italy Best Movie International Award Young Generation for his performance in My Fault. 

After his arrest, official handle of the festival took to X and wrote, "#LaBiennaleDiVenezia would like to specify that the presence in #Venice of Spanish actor #GabrielGuevara, that some press websites have recently reported as being under arrest, was not linked to any activity or production of the 80th Venice International Film Festival."

The organizers of the il Filming Italy Best Movie Award initiative told local news agency Ansa, that they had “suspended any recognition as a precaution, waiting for the nature of the facts concerning him [Guevara] to be ascertained and with complete confidence that justice will take its course.”

The 80th Venice International Film Festival is organised by La Biennale di Venezia and directed by Alberto Barbera. The festival is currently taking place at Venice Lido. It began on 30 August amid the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike and will wrap up on 9 September 2023.

As per the news agency Reuters, several categories made it to the official selection of films shown, the top being those competing for the coveted Golden Lion award. The list includes–Comandante (directed by Edoardo De Angelis), El Conde (directed by Pablo Larrain), Dogman (directed by Luc Besson), Ferrari (directed by Michael Mann), The Promised Land (directed by Nikolaj Arcel), Poor Things (directed by Yorgos Lanthimos), Finally Dawn (directed by Saverio Costanzo), Maestro (directed by Bradley Cooper), Adagio (directed by Stefano Sollima), Die Theorie Von Allem (directed by Timm Kroger), The Killer (directed by David Fincher), The Beast (directed by Bertrand Bonello), Evil Does Not Exist (directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi), Priscilla (directed by Sofia Coppola), Green Border (directed by Agnieszka Holland), Enea (directed by Pietro Castellitto), Origin (directed by Ava DuVernay), Me Captain (directed by Matteo Garrone), Lubo (directed by Giorgio Diritti), Holly (directed by Fien Troch), Woman Of (directed by Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert), Memory (directed by Michel Franco) and Hors-Saison (directed by Stephane Brize).

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