Special Edition for 2022 [] Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF)
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Guanajuato Film Festival
celebrates 25 years with a special editionPublished January 19, 2022 The Guanajuato International Film Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this year with a special edition that will include “surprises and many activities,” announced its director, Sarah Hoch.
Known as GIFF, the festival will be held July 22-31 in central cities such as Irapuato, San Miguel de Allende and León.
From this Tuesday the global call for the competition of feature film, documentary, short film and virtual reality was inaugurated and will remain until the first of April of this year.
“We remind Mexican filmmakers that we don’t charge registration for national projects,” Hoch said.
This year, the GIFF will send Mexican producers María Fernanda Galindo and Abril López Carrillo scholarships to the Rotterdam Lab, of the Rotterdam International Film Festival that will begin on January 26.
“This will give me the opportunity to be in contact with many professionals from different areas and places in the world with my project,” Galindo said in a video released during the virtual press conference.
The presence in Rotterdam will be made under the name “We are small”, a mixture of documentary with fiction and portrays a group of girls from a native town of Sonora who are preparing for a singing contest.
In addition, the documentary filmmaker and journalist Diego Enrique Osorno was chosen as the Mexican representative to make a stay in Berlin, Germany, as part of the exchange that the festival carries out with the Goethe Institut Mexiko and Mediumboard.
“A residency is given for a Mexican filmmaker in Berlin and one for a German in Mexico to write his scripts, edit his films, do a project review, seek financing, etc.,” Hoch said.
Also present at the press conference were the deputy director of distribution and national promotion of the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE), Lola Díaz González; the general director of the Institute of Culture of the State of Guanajuato, Adriana Camarena, and the Secretary of Tourism of the State of Guanajuato, Juan José Álvarez Brunel. EFE
During the past twenty years GIFF has established itself as the most important platform for young filmmakers in Latin America, each year bringing upcoming talents together with world-renowned experts of the moving image. In 2014 GIFF received 3,421 films from 118 countries in competition, while hosting over 120,000 total audience members who over 10 days enjoyed more than 400 films from 10am until 4am in 21 venues; including such unusual spaces as the subterranean streets and tunnels beneath Guanajuato Capital city as well as in both cities’ graveyards. GIFF, which is produced by the non-profit Expresión en Corto Foundation A.C., is made possible each year in large part thanks to: the State Government of Guanajuato, the Guanajuato State Secretary of Tourism, the National Council on Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA) the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE), the cities of San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato Capital, sponsorship from the private sector, various tax-deductible donations from the public, many partnering institutions and hundreds of volunteers. This combined support allows GIFF to annually offer a variety of screenings, workshops, conferences, tributes and activities at no cost to the visiting public. Over the course of 10 days, more than 400 films are screened from 10am until 4am in 21 venues, which include such unusual locations as: the Jardín Principal (main square) of San Miguel de Allende; the classical open-air staircase of the University of Guanajuato; the subterranean streets and tunnels beneath Guanajuato Capital (where gay, lesbian, erotic and underground films are projected); as well as horror films that are screened in both municipal graveyards (panteónes). There are also screenings in more conventional spaces such as Cines Aldama (SMA), Teatro Angela Peralta (SMA), Centro Cultural Ignacio Ramirez – El Nigromante (SMA), the Teatro Santa Ana (SMA), Galería Kunsthaus Santa Fe (SMA), the Auditorio del Estado (GTO) and the Teatro Principal (GTO). The international competition is the largest in Mexico, with films competing in a variety of categories that include: Short Fiction, Short Animation, Short Experimental, Short Documentary, Long Documentary and Narrative Feature. As well as an assortment of workshops, conferences, Women in Film and Television luncheons and National Tributes to both Mexican and International A-list filmmakers who are in attendance.
Festival Internacional de Cine Guanajuato Fábrica La Aurora, Local 5-B, Col. Aurora San Miguel de Allende, Gto. México C.P. 37700 Tel. +52 (415) 152 72 64 Tel. & Fax. +52 (415) 152 88 99
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