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The Portuguese cinema award at the 2014 IBAFF (13/02/2014)

From 3 to 9 March Murcia becomes international film capital, on the fifth anniversary of the International Film Festival-IBAFF-Murcia, which is committed to the promotion and dissemination of film culture.

France, Spain, the Philippines, United States, Argentina, Portugal, Brazil, Colombia, Italy, Cuba, Chile, Belgium, Serbia, Romania: For a week more than 60 works, including short films, feature films and documentaries from 13 countries will be screened , Macedonia and Costa Rica.

The works selected for this edition will be distinguished by their artistic quality and be sometimes inaccessible parts in conventional commerce.

PROJECTIONS

For six days will be screened daily an average of three films great cinematic value, they have the critical acclaim and received outstanding awards at other festivals.

This is the case of 'E-agora, lembra-me', Portuguese Joaquim Pinto, Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival 2013.

It is a story told in the first person, the diary of a year of experimental treatment of HIV in the life of director.

The tape IBAFF close on Saturday March 8.

Moreover, the timing of the entire Festival 'The Dirties', which will compete in the International Official Section Feature Films.

This mockumentary, Kevin Smith, independent film director and author of 'Clerks'-offered to distribute after the tape was premiered at the Slamdance festival, is the debut of Matthew Johnson.

A story about two friends who come Institute of bullies peers.

Moreover, within the section of operas IDM see the work 'Costa da Morte', Galician Lois Patiño, who won the award for Best New Director at the Locarno Film Festival in the Filmmakers of the Present section.

In his first feature Patiño portrays the environment of this coastal region through the eyes of shellfish and fishermen who live there.

They will be IN IBAFF

For the festival directors will like Portuguese Pedro Costa, with a filmography that has great recognition in Europe and a way to roll completely away from the canons of more commercial cinema.

This year, the IBAFF will screen 'Historic Centre'.

The film, directed by Costa, Manoel de Oliveira, Victor Erice and Aki KaurismÃ¤ki, was commissioned by the city of Guimaraes, European Capital of Culture in 2012.

Each of the directors had the same budget and with complete freedom to shoot, or not, in the Portuguese city.

Costa, an innovator in the experimental film, worked as an assistant director for Jorge Silva Melo and JoÃ£o Botelho until he made his first feature film: 'O Sangue'.

Another of his best known works are 'Casa de Lava', selected for Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section, and 'Bones', with which in 1997 he won the Osella d'Or award at the Venice Film Festival.

In 2000 won the Jury Prize at Locarno with 'No quarto da Vanda'.

A year later hits 'Onde Sorriso jaz o teu-', on the work of DaniÃ¨le Huillet i Jean-Marie Straub and 'Colossal Youth', in competition at Cannes in 2006.

Yesterday in Barcelona premiered his documentary "Ne change rien ', which outlines the six years of recording different interpretations of Jeanne Balibar, a boo French actress singer.

HONORARY AWARD

In its fifth year the IBAFF deliver the honorary award for Portuguese Cinematheque National Museum of Cinema, by diffusion of the cinematic arts and conservation of masterpieces of cinema.

Founded in 1950 by Felix Manuel Ribeiro, became an autonomous institution in 1980.

That same year he opened his own theater and began his daily schedule of screenings, but burned in April 1981.

It would be in September 1982 when reborn again.

In the late '80s, with the purchase of the 'Fifth Fence', opened the file, opened in 1995, and in 1997 was recognized as Cinematheque Film Museum.

Earlier, in 1996, opened a conservation center on the outskirts of Lisbon, which is now the hub of conservation, restoration, research and activities, where new technologies are used.

The Portuguese Cinematheque 36,000 titles, 33,000 books, 3,300 magazines, 8,000 film posters and lots of equipment used in the film world.

He has also played a decisive role in the development of relations with the European institutions to preserve and give value to the film heritage of Europe.

He has also participated in several international and European programs such as Project LUMIERE, ARCHIMEDI (European Training Network for the Promotion of Cinema Heritage), the Raphael project and the European Film Gateaway Project.

He is also a member of FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives) since 1956.

Its director, José Manuel Costa, collect the prize.

OPEN FESTIVAL

The IBAFF want to count again this year, with the participation of the citizens themselves, a key part in the development of the Festival.

So 30 will be part of the jury Murcia Popular.

His judgment and feedback will be essential to provide the Popular Jury Award.

Applications can be made through the website www.ibaff.es, until 16 February.

It also opened the fourth consecutive year a call for cultural volunteer thinking younger, so that participants will gain practical knowledge about different areas and will be directly responsible for the organization and management of the Festival.

It is expected that more than 100 volunteers collaborate in eleven departments: literature, photography, advertising distribution, customer service, organization, department and ushers, guest assistance, accreditation, media and communication, production, and audiovisual communication.

YOUNG IBAFF

Committed to the promotion of film culture among teens, about a thousand secondary school students will see five shorts in what is termed as IBAFF YOUNG.

It is a way of spreading work among young people who share the values â€‹â€‹of cultural diversity, tolerance and respect for the opinions of others.

The aim is to bring the Festival to them and contribute to media literacy so necessary for a critical understanding of film culture.

Among selected the best of the 5 short that already are projecting: La Strada di Raffael (Alessandro Falco) Dreamless (Daniel del Valle), Novembro (Fabio Meira), one of these days (Fali Álvarez) and Spain is Different ( Salvador Guerra

ANNOUNCER CARTEL AND VENUES

This year we have used the sample geometry as universal remote source language.

The human being, since its inception, has always used signs to communicate.

Therefore, this hypnotic concentric image hints at the origins of experimental cinema, specifically the play "Anemic Cinema" by Marcel Duchamp (1926).

An "optical illusion" that the end of the day is the cinema.

In addition, the Festival will invade the city not only projections, but with parallel activities and surprises for Murcia.

This year there will be three official offices: the Regional Film Francisco Rabal, the Puertas de Castilla and the Archaeological Museum, which will host the International Symposium cultural center dedicated Ibn Arabi.

The third edition will be a tribute to the philosopher María Zambrano.

STRUCTURE OF THE FESTIVAL

It will be divided in three competitive sections and six non competitive:

Competitive Sections

Official Selection International Long, endowed with 4,500 euros for the winner.

Two.

Official Selection International Short: endowed with 1,500 euros for the winner.

Three.

Opera Prima Official Selection: endowed with 3,000 euros for the winner.

Sections uncompetitive

Periphery, where they project more than a dozen films.

Two.