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FESTIVAL CINE.- Los directores del Festival Internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Luis Miranda, y el MECAS (Mercado del Cine Casi Hecho), Lorena Morin, y de la Gran Canaria Film Commission, Nuria Guinot, presentan la selecci\u00f3n de proyectos de la sexta edici\u00f3n del mercado y las actividades que se celebrar\u00e1n dentro de su programa del 13-16 de abril. Palacete Rodr\u00edguez Quegles<\/p><\/div>\n
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Friday, March 31, 2023.-<\/em> The sixth edition of MECAS, the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival\u2019s Market of Almost-Finished Films, has announced the selection of the 17 titles that will participate in the two international sections at a press conference held this morning, Friday, March 31, with the presence of Luis Miranda, director of the Festival, Lorena Morin, director of MECAS and Nuria Guinot, head of the Gran Canaria Film Commission (Sociedad de Promoci\u00f3n Econ\u00f3mica del Cabildo de Gran Canaria).\u00a0 <\/span>The event will be held on April 13, 14, 15 and 16 and returns to its venue at the Elder Museum of Science and Technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n Of the 262 works registered, nine projects have been finalists in the Almost-Finished Films section, the market for films in the final stages of production, editing or post-production, and will compete for a prize of 8,000 euros; while eight of them have been selected for Films to be Made, aimed at filmmakers with projects in the development stage, and that will compete for a prize of 5,000 euros. The selected works come from Peru, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Spain, France, Greece and Portugal.<\/p>\n The proposals, according to MECAS\u2019 director, “move on the borders between reality, fiction and delirium; I could adjectivize them as urgent, political, ecological, inclusive, intimate, analogical. But I\u2019d rather not, because, though they are all of these, none of them define them completely.”<\/p>\n The films selected for Almost-Finished Films<\/strong> are: Mon\u00f3logo Colectivo<\/em><\/strong> by Sarah Jessica Rinland (Trapecio Cine – Argentina), Estados generales<\/strong><\/em> by Mauricio Freyre (Estudio Rien, Tasio – Peru, Spain), Los restos del pasar<\/em><\/strong> by Luis Soto and Alfredo Picazo (Mubox – Spain), project selected from Semilleru FicxPro Gij\u00f3n in the last edition, Beckett y el Rinoceronte blanco<\/em><\/strong> by Ad\u00e1n Aliaga (Jaibo Films – Spain), El Pr\u00edncipe de Nanawa<\/em><\/strong> by Clarisa Navas (Gentil Cine – Argentina), Punku<\/em><\/strong> by Juan Daniel Fern\u00e1ndez Molero (Tiempo Libre – Peru), Balane 3<\/em><\/strong> by Ico Costa (Oublaum Filmes – Portugal), Los tonos mayores<\/em><\/strong> by Ingrid Pokropek (36 Caballos – Argentina) and the Canarian project La Hojarasca<\/em><\/strong> by Macu Mach\u00edn (El viaje films – Spain).<\/p>\n The finalist projects of Films to be Made<\/strong> are: La P\u00e9rdida de la magia<\/em> <\/strong>by Silvia Rey (Limbus Filmak – Spain), a project selected thanks to the collaboration with\u00a0 <\/span>l’Alternativa\u2019s Cinema Pendent program, A day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra<\/em><\/strong> by Jacqueline Lentzo (4 A 4 Productions – Greece, France), M-X<\/em><\/strong> by Iv\u00e1n Blanco Fern\u00e1ndez (BRBR – Spain), Batall\u00f3n 7<\/em><\/strong> by Natalia Garayalde (Punto de Fuga Cine – Argentina), Donde est\u00e9s ser\u00e1 mi hogar<\/em><\/strong> by Lionel Braverman (Bomba Cine – Argentina), 3 Balas<\/em><\/strong> by G\u00e9nesis S. Valenzuela (Tinglado Films – Dominican Republic, Spain), Maspalomas<\/em><\/strong> by Reka Valerik (Dublin Films – France), which will be shot in Gran Canaria, and the Canarian production Keenie #166<\/em><\/strong> by Blanca Bonet, (Tourmalet Film – Spain).<\/p>\n As a novelty, this year Music Library &SFX will offer a prize to the winning Almost-Finished Film project valued at \u20ac1,500, which will consist in offering free access to all its production music with unlimited downloads. It will also include the synchronization of the music within up to 2 promotional contents of the winning project (teaser\/trailer) as well as value-added services such as discounts and advantages for ad hoc composition, production and convergences on the composed music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n MECAS will start next Thursday, April 13 with a meeting between international producers, with projects that have the potential to be filmed in Gran Canaria, and companies from the regional audiovisual sector. The meeting, promoted by the SPEGC through the Gran Canaria Film Commission, aims to promote the Canary Islands\u2019 independent film industry and talent. Subsequently, and within the same program, participants and guests at the market will attend a Location Famtrip<\/em> to different locations on the island. The international producers will learn first-hand about the calls for minority production and co-production, which could be accessed by a Canarian producer.<\/p>\n Nuria Guinot stressed the importance of supporting MECAS, “the most industrial side of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival,” because “it highlights the advantages offered by the island of Gran Canaria to the national and international production companies invited to this market.\u201d The head of the Gran Canaria Film Commission also stated that “MECAS is a unique opportunity to get to know first-hand the tax advantages, the variety of locations, as well as the specialized infrastructures such as the “Gran Canaria Plat\u00f3s” and the existing industrial fabric of the island to host any type of audiovisual production.”<\/p>\n On the following days, April 14, 15 and 16, participants will attend intense days of screenings, presentations, tutorials and meetings with guest experts, including production companies, sales agents, distributors and representatives of international funds and festivals. The activities will be held at the Elder Museum of Science and Technology and the Hotel Cristina Cristina by Tigotan.<\/p>\n MECAS, throughout its trajectory, has reaped rewards. The journey taken by some of the works that have been selected in the market prove it. For instance, the itinerary of one of the proposals that passed through the Almost-Finished Films section last year: the Canarian documentary Un volc\u00e1n habitado<\/em><\/strong> by David Pantale\u00f3n and Jose V\u00edctor Fuentes will have its world premiere at Visions du Reel, one of Europe\u2019s most prestigious documentary film festivals.<\/p>\n The industry area of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival is a specialized platform of activities aimed primarily at directors, producers and industry agents from Europe and Latin America seeking support in the completion and development of feature films. MECAS is sponsored by Canary Islands Film (Instituto Canario de Desarrollo Cultural), Gran Canaria Film Commission (Sociedad de Promoci\u00f3n Econ\u00f3mica de Gran Canaria), Spanish Public Agency for Cultural Action (AC\/E), Proexca and Music Library &SFX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \uf0d8\u00a0The competitive sections of the festival’s market, Almost-Finished Films and Films to be Made will review 17 projects in total: nine will participate in the former and eight in the section dedicated to in-development projects \uf0d8\u00a0The sixth edition of the market will take place from April 13 to 16 and will once again be held at the Elder Museum of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":19365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}