• Alois Sandner Díaz’s project, Fuego en la boca, gets the Isla MECAS Award as well as the Very Good Script Award
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Sunday, April 21, 2024. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival’s 7th Market of Almost-Finished Films (MECAS) has held its awards ceremony this evening. A jury of experts made up of Jing Xu (Rediance), Nicola Marzano (FRAMES of REPRESENTATION), Émilie Poirier (Festival du Nouveau Cinéma), Quentin Worthington (MPM Premium) and Lara González Lobo (International Film Festival Rotterdam) has been in charge of assessing the 18 projects selected for the international markets of Almost-Finished Films and Films-To-Be-Made, whose prizes have increased 1,000 euros each.
The Almost-Finished Film Award, endowed with 9,000 euros, has been granted to Matías Ítalo Scarvaci’s project Hijas “for the humanity and deep affection with which it reconciles the tragic contradictions of lives suspended between crime and love, and for the unprecedented access to women in this film,” as stated by the jury.
On the other hand, the Films-To-Be-Made Award, valued at 6,000 euros, has gone to Daniela Muñoz Barroso’s Diarios del silencio, “a project,” according to the jury, “that researches into the dimensions of sound, sensory and film language from an intelligent point of view while following the personal process of the filmmaker.”
Fuego en la boca, by Alois Sandner Díaz, has received the €1,000 Isla MECAS Award. According to the jury, it is “a provocative and intelligent attempt to investigate the contradictions of a dynamic that affects us all today: how the virtual world interferes with and disrupts real life.”
The Music Library &SFX Award for an Almost-Finished Film project consisting on a music supervision consultancy and the use of the company’s music catalog has gone to Ana García Blaya’s Tiempo de morir. Alois Sandner Díaz’s Fuego en la boca will also have a script consultancy with Anna Ciennik thanks to the Very Good Script Award for a Films-To-Be-Made project, and La isla sumergida, by Lucía Malandro and Daniel Saucedo, has received the Blackout Films Award for the DCP creation of its project.
The Cinema Pendent de l’Alternativa PRO Award has been granted to Guillermo Magariños’ Fiesta negra “because it approaches all those boundaries that we like to avoid in the films we select, removing the limits between reality and imagination, between the universal and the intimate, between the past, the present and the future, between human relationships and the places they inhabit, which evolve, are lost or recovered.”
“For the originality, risk and freshness of his proposal, its almost Dadaist humorous perspective and formal quality,” Armand Rovira has won the SEMILLERU Lab Award with his project Woman Bites Dog, which will allow him to participate in the next edition of the Gijón International Film Festival’s Semilleru Lab
MECAS is funded by Consejería de Universidades, Ciencia e Innovación y Cultura from the Canarian Government, and has the support of the program for the internationalization of Spanish culture, PICE Visitors, of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E). It is also sponsored by the Gran Canaria Film Commission (Sociedad de Promoción Económica de Gran Canaria), and Music Library &SFX, and collaborates with Proexca, Very Good Script, Gijón International Film Festival’s Semilleru Lab and Cinema Pendent de L’Alternativa.
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