Invisible cinema
. The invisible film curious terms in the line of non-places of Aug, applies for a few years those films have had an extensive tour of festivals, with good reception by the criticism, but have not come to debut in commercial channels.
For the general public, works as Shevernatze, an epic march of newt atrso Kindred, July Surez are pieces absolutely unknown, as, wow cheap power leveling, no bet for distributing them at the time. How to overcome this anonymity is an unsolved mystery, while some producers opted to hire themselves projection rooms, others have decided to open opportunities via the Internet.
From idea to the network
Despite the breakneck speed of the network, will have to spend three years since reporters and Jordi Jess Ulled Minguell they happen to schedule a digital, wow power leveling, festival, until they could materialize on the web www.festivalcineonline. com.
With the sponsorship of cultural scope and Filmotech TECHNOLOGICAL care, which has its own portal for viewing movies on demand, "the project is also sponsored by Rtve, TCM and the magazine 'Frames' . With all this, and imagine that countless hours of work and leisure stolen dream, have, sto credits, managed to build the first virtual festival of Spanish cinema.
With the approach of putting at the disposal of any Internet free of charge and with a more than acceptable quality, the full festival lineup, and besides ensuring respect for intellectual property and copyright, the festival offers three competitive sections and tip, a selection of Jewels of Spanish Cinema.
Harnessing technology
In just three seconds is possible to register and receive by mail a password that will allow us to see all the movies, comment and vote at the special prize of the public. To take one but the choice of flash technology makes it out of the game Ipad users and Iphone.
The vision streaming seems to avoid the possibility of illegal copying and reproduction quality is more than acceptable. As claimed Spain Paco mail to inform us about this festival, so you can watch movies online without irritating the minister.
The section officer
In this first edition of the Festival Online competition six national titles in production:
'Ander', the Galician Robert Castner, explores the censorship of homosexuality in rural areas. Set in the Basque Country, chronicles the difficult relationship between Anderson and Jos farmer, his employee Peru. The film has received numerous awards in film festivals gay Lisbon and Valladolid, in the festivals of Albacete and Punta del Este and the prize for the best work of art films at the Berlinale 2010.
'I own boats' is the third film directed by Juan Cavestany, in an already long career in film and theater, which started with great force in Sitges Gijny festivals but, inexplicably, did not find commercial distribution . Tragic comedy background, draw four seemingly unrelated characters who involve ourselves in an absurd criminal plan.
In 'Life' til, Federico Veiroj constructs a parable about new media and old loves to travs entraable a character, one that an cuarentn cinfilo lives with his parents and whose life revolves around movies. When you close the film library where you work, you must face the real world. This is a Spanish-Uruguayan coproduccin shot in black and white, with the added-morbidity of the main character played by a critic est cinematographic, George Jellinek.
'Materials' is an experiment unclassifiable group "The Sons", composed by Javier Fernandez, Luis L3pez y Natalia Marin. During a year of Leon toured the region RIAO, drowned in 1987 to build a reservoir. The result is 67 minutes of black and white in those who play with conventional audiovisual speech, moving the display to parody.
'Die da' is a document signed by Laia Manresa and Sergi Dies issue that serves as chronicle of the last four decades analyzed from a vision quite marginal, that of the heroinmanos. This dursima proposal is both an exciting tribute to the filmmaker Joaquim Jord, artfice the project, but could not carry it out, he died in 2006.
'All SODES capitns vs' by Olivier Laxe, perhaps the most unconventional film sample. Assembled from materials that students shot a film workshop for children in a shelter that the director gave in Tangier, this piece in black and white and dialogues in Arab and franc s explore the possibilities of visual expression from the perspective of innocence.
European Cinema
Productions in addition to Spanish, provides a European Film Award Indian boy to movies that have no distribution in Spain. In this second section three films are competing official:
'Letters to God' is a Belgian-French drama directed by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, in which a child of ten years a cancer sufferer terminal takes refuge in the company religiny a stranger. It is the only film of this section that is available in subtitled original version.
'Easy money' by Daniel Espinosa is a Swedish thriller which operates the grain of the Scandinavian crime novels. Adaption of the novel's lawyer Jens Lapidus, recreates the world of the underworld and is the first part of his trilogy Stockholm Black, published in Spain by Suma de Letras.
'Tourne' by Matthieu Almaric, CIDA is a French comedy, which highlights its taste for the picturesque and try and absence returns through the return trip from a producer francs emigrated to the United States.
Documentaries
Competition also presents three pieces of documentary film:
'Draquila' is a controversial Italian production directed by Sabina Guzzanti. Addresses the situation of the region of Abruzzo following earthquakes in 2009, which caused over 300 deaths, and response to tragedy politics, focused more on profitability than urbanstica the fee in the victims. Available in original version with Captions in Castilian.
"In the bazaar of the sexes' by Sudabeh Mortezaie investigates the way around curiossima ISLAMIC law and its prohibition of relationships outside marriage. The emergency solution is the wedding with an expiration date, as this film reveals Austrian production and iran. It can be seen in German, with Captions in Castilian.
The Bosnian origin Austrian Nina Kusturica addressed in 'Little Alien' the problemtica of refugee children to be separated from their parents. The work was awarded in the Film Festival of Los Angeles and is available in original version with Captions.
Classic Spanish cinema
Out of competition, this first complete online festival its unique offer with a special section devoted to classic films produced in Spain.
There are six pieces of film library worth recovering, 'Main Street' by Juan Antonio Bardem, 'The spirit of the beehive' by Victor Erice, 'The little flat, "Marco Ferreri,' Hunting 'by Carlos Saura;' Placido ', Luis Garcia Berlanga and "Viridiana" by Luis Buuel.
Despite the undeniable quality of the selection, we can not forget that all these works are available on DVD in several editions and prices, generally available. In any case, we understand the programming of this Section as a complaint against forgetting and putting the suffering these national-ymsan classic, In comparison with Anglo-homologous, as these works are also condemned to their own invisibility.