The veteran Festival advances that will have as countries invited to Bulgaria, Algeria and Korea, a country to whose culture will devote a special day full of events for the younger.
The town council of Culture Jessica Trujillo and the festival's directors, José Ramón Martínez and Jaime Noguera, presented the dates of their 24th edition, which will be held from 18 to 25 October at the Casa de la Cultura de Arroyo de la Honey and at the Benalmádena Costa Exhibition Centre. They also announced the opening of the call for their Official Cortometry Section to Contest, for which they invite Malagasy, national and international filmmakers to present their works, which may be of any kind (fiction, documentary, experimental), provided they do not exceed 30 minutes of duration. The registration deadline will be Sunday, 3 August.
The awards to be awarded in this edition are:
- Best Short Film Award2,000€ and trophy
- Second Prize - Sponsored by Emabesa: 1,000€ and trophy
- Best Malaysian short film - Sponsored by Cine- Club Más Madera: 500€ and trophy
- Best Direction Award: Trophy
- Best Script Award: Trophy
- Best Interpretation Award: Trophy
Stakeholders can consult the registration bases and methods on the festival's website: www.ficcab.org. Remember that in the last edition the thousands of registrations from all over the world were exceeded, it shows the impact that the festival generates internationally.
Programming progress
As usual, in the search for the most complicated films, FICCAB is set this year in the production of short films of an African country, our forgotten neighbour of Algeria, in addition to the reality of the short gender of countries such as Bulgaria, in collaboration with the Antena Desk office of the Balkan country.
Another guest country is Korea, to whose culture (especially the K-Pop phenomenon) the festival will devote a special day for young people with dance competitions, Korean writing workshops and special projections in which they will draw lessons and various activities.
This special day is organized with the collaboration of the non-profit association 'Hallyu', which aims to make the Asian culture known in different areas of Andalusia and that includes in its work children and adolescents from different fields, including those diagnosed with ADHD, psychomotor problem, immaturation, autistic spectrum disorder, etc.
With this new edition, FICCAB reaffirms its commitment to the promotion of independent cinema, emerging talent and the diversity of looks that nurture the current audiovisual landscape.
