- The Island MECAS Award was given to Mercedes Afonso for the project El mapa para tocarte
- This edition also granted a series of recognitions providing assistance and help from experienced companies witin the industry
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Wednesday, April 30, 2025.- The 8th Market of Almost-Finished Films (MECAS) of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival has announced its awards. A jury of experts featuring Lucia Sapelli Ricaldoni (Silberfluss), Ildefonso Rodríguez Torras (Gijón International Film Festival), Silvia Rodríguez González (poet), Chioma Uchechukwu Onyenwe (Raconteurs Productions) and Tanguy Bertrand Renaud (B Rated) has been in charged of assessing the 19 projects selected for the two international markets of Almost-Finished Films and Films-To-Be-Made, as well as the MECAS Island Award for a Canarian project.
The Almost-Finished Films Award, worth 8,000 euros, has been granted to the project Manantial, by Manuel Muñoz Rivas, “for being a film in between life and ceasing to exist; a tribute to his father, his mother and a celebrating gesture of that love. He has filmed the worst moments as if they would protect them from the ephemeral and mortal. The river sounds like the unstoppable and cruel passage of time”.
On the other hand, the Films-To-Be-Made Award, worth 5,000 euros, has gone to Me llamo Erik Satie, como todo el mundo, by Joana Carro, “for being a hybrid, a mixture of autobiographical fiction, with a well of poetry and imagination. It is a fragile project that exalts the father figure as a vital and creative necessity. The filmmaker looks for questions, she feeds her film with realities.”
El mapa para tocarte, by Mercedes Afonso, has received the Island MECAS Award, endowed with 1,000 euros. The jury gave it the award “for being a risky film where the director shows the archives of 12 years of intimate family life, the eruption of the volcano in La Palma from her window and how it takes away her properties and her son’s school. The mother reveals herself as the protagonist of a map of abysmal lights and shadows.”
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 Ningún lugar a dónde ir, by Santiago Gershanik. Estoque, by Andrea Segarra Bueno, will have a script consultancy with Anna Ciennik thanks to the Very Good Script Award for a Films-To-Be-Made project, and Delivery Girl, by Jorge Shinno, has received the Blackout Films Award for the DCP creation of its project.
MECAS 2025 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 Sociedad de Promoción Económica de Gran Canaria, Proexca and Music Library & SFX, and collaborates with Very Good Script and Tres Puertos Cine AUSTRALAB.
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