Alicante Film Festival is hosting a documentary short film in its 20th year.

It started with three-day projections and 3,000 euros. budget and today it covers a week of events with funding of more than 250,000 Euros. This Alicante Film Festival celebrate next june twenty years of life and want to celebrate together news and the opening gala special invited to participate in all honored in these twenty years.

At the Diputación de Alicante this Thursday, the organization presented: poster of the twentieth editionordered directly from artist Javier Crespo this year. opening of a festival this one opens new section devoted to short documentary and will have Italy as guest country.

competition will be held From 3 to 10 June and its director, vincent sevaclaimed to have already received 950 short films and waiting to reach around 1,400 jobs Before March 26, when the term ends. From them, 65 percent are led by women and a total of about 60 works will be selected. In this first year of the department, 150 documentary short films were screened in addition to national and international fiction, animation, Mediterranean, LGTBI and Alicante Cinema. No data has yet been sent for received feature films.

20th anniversary poster color and glory As a nod to Almodóvar’s film, it was created by illustrator and artistic director Javier Crespo from Alicante, who was the winner of the competition in 2016 (13th of the festival) and is responsible for the image of the Gastro Cinema festival. that is, in October.

Festival poster in its twentieth edition INFORMATION


“We asked Alicante to be an artist and we turned to him as a good friend of the house,” said Seva de Crespo, explaining that this time the responsibility was greater “because it has to be a representative 20″. cinema and the city”. “I’ve made twenty too many, I’ve had nightmares”, joked on the writer who drew many sketches before he found anything “It will represent the number and success of the festival and integrate it with the city, light and colour.as a tribute to Alicante as the city that welcomes him”.

From there, continuous line Crespo’s collaborators and his drawing style “a continuous path in the shape of a maze” The color, where you can distinguish the old city, the domes, the palm trees, even the Riscal building and the architecture of the 50s, “the structure of the festival, on a black background that evokes that dark moment in movie theaters”.

A gala “to remember”

Concerning its twentieth anniversary, the festival’s director welcomes this pressure with “great enthusiasm and enthusiasm” and with the intention of creating “a gala to remember”, keeping in touch with the awardees of these two decades so they can attend. is looking for new figures of the cinema world for this year. “We threw in a few hooks. Garcia a pending issue amenabar, Antonio Banderas He already told us that he couldn’t do it because he was involved in theater…”

During these years, as the performance figures Maribel Verdú, Imanol Arias, Emilio Guitierrez Caba, Concha Velasco, José Coronado, Ornella Muti, Angela Molina, María de Medeiros, Juan Diego, José Sacristan, Antonio Resines, Juan Echanove, Blanca Portillo, Belén Rueda, Fele Martínez, Mario Hugo Silva, Dani Rovira, Inma Cuesta, et cetera. iconic directors like Bigas Luna, Gracia Querejeta, Alex de la Iglesia, Rodrigo Cortés, Mariano Barroso, Imanol Uribe, Fernando Colomo, Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Isabel Coixetamong others.

Vice President and Vice President of Culture, Julia Parrahighlighting the progress of the festival on “a very important anniversary” and congratulating the organization “for having succeeded in spreading their enthusiasm and making a dream come true”: Alicante has become for a few days a center of reference for cinema in Spain. “.

More than 14,000 short films since 2004

Alicante Film Festival was created by Alicante filmmaker Vicente Seva. in 2004 It is presented as an example of short films that were screened on a weekend in order to support and spread the cinema culture of the province. Every year, it has developed with the support of public and private institutions and moviegoers, adding and adding new sections to its body. Feature films in competition In recent years.

Regarding the content, the festival has received since its establishment. More than 14,000 short films and around 1,200 feature filmsmore of these 1,500 short films from 28 countriess and more 200 movies In different sections, such as competitive feature films or invited Mediterranean films. In this new edition, the guest country will be Italy. The representative cycle of Italian filmmaking.

It also served as a platform for making presentations. serial training What Alba, Rebellion, Heaven anyone two years one day. Celebrating premieres by meeting with the public with their creators and representatives of their distributors and producers.

Source: Informacion

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