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This year, FICBUEU will recognize actress María Vázquez with the Galician Film Award

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This year, FICBUEU will recognize actress María Vázquez with the Galician Film Award

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Tampere Film Festival Executive Director Riina Mikkonen; director and producer Chema García Ibarra; and Serbian critic Tara Karajica, jury member of the Official Section of the event.

BUEU. Pontevedra. 31.07.24. The Galician actress María Vázquez (Vigo, 1979) will receive the Cinema Galego Award from the Bueu International Film Festival (FICBUEU). Since 2016, the festival has recognized with this award the contribution of professionals in the Galician audiovisual industry throughout their careers. Vázquez will receive the Cinema Galego Award on September 14 at an event where she will also hold an open discussion with the FICBUEU public.

The festival, which is celebrating its seventeenth edition between September 6 and 21, awarded this award in previous years to actresses Mabel Rivera, Melania Cruz and Luísa Merelas, and to actors Miguel de Lira, Alfonso Agra, Celso Bugallo and Antonio Durán Morris.

María Vázquez began her career as an actor about 25 years ago. Professionally linked to both the Galician audiovisual and state sectors, she has been nominated several times for the Goya Awards, most recently in 2024 for her performance in the award-winning Galician film Matria. Throughout her career, Vázquez also won three Mestre Mateo Awards for her performances in other productions. The Vigo-born actress also regularly works in theatre and television. Her most recent production for the small screen is the series El jardines (The Gardener), produced by Netflix and which will be released in the coming months.

During the meeting with the FICBUEU public that will take place on September 14, attendees will be able to learn more about María Vázquez’s professional career and learn more about her work.

Jury

The FICBUEU team is finalising the last organisational details of the next edition of the competition, whose juries for the competition sections, the Official and Uncovered, which reward the best productions by the youngest authors, have already been appointed.

The executive director and programmer of the Tampere Festival (Finland), Riina Mikkonen; the director, screenwriter and producer Chema García Ibarra, and the Serbian programmer, critic and journalist Tara Karajica will be the three in charge of deciding the winning films of the Official Section.

The Descubertas jury is made up of the photographer and cultural manager Elisa Pereira, the programmer and researcher Xan Gómez, and also the programmer, researcher and critic Daniela Urzola.

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FICBUEU will dedicate its “Retrospective” to Jonas Mekas, the founder of american avant-garde cinema

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BUEU. 19.06.24. This year, the Bueu International Film Festival will bring to the public the figure and work of Jonas Mekas (1922-2019), experimental filmmaker, cultural agitator, and father of American avant-garde cinema. The FICBUEU will dedicate its “Retrospective” section to him. During the festival, which is held between September 6 and 21, an anthology of 8 short films authored by Mekas will be screened in addition to the film correspondence that he maintained with the director José Luis Guerín. The FICBUEU wants to propose to its public a critical review of the director’s work, to which it also dedicates its «Caderno» #5.

The festival reaches its seventeenth edition with a program in which it will once again show a selection of some of the most interesting and innovative short films made around the world in recent times. By approaching the figure of Mekas, the Festival turns its gaze to a creator who, beyond his film work, was a key driving force of experimental cinema, creating publications and initiatives dedicated to its promotion, dissemination or study.

The Festival dedicates its «Caderno» #5 to Mekas

A fundamental figure in the history of cinema, Jonas Mekas was followed and admired by other great voices of the cultural revolution of the 1960s such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol and Susan Sontag.

 

From Lithuania to New York

Born in Lithuania in 1922, Jonas Mekas began exploring avant-garde cinema after he arrived in New York after 10 years imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. He would eventually play a substantial role in the New American Cinema movement in the 1960s and 1970s.

Mekas became a tireless protector of independent filmmakers, advocating freedom of artistic expression, co-founding the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, fighting censorship, and turning his sights toward emancipation from conventional cinematic norms. Searching for the essence of cinema, his efforts culminated in the founding of the Anthology Film Archives in 1970, a museum, library and screening venue dedicated to the promotion of independent cinema.

He would continue making experimental films until he was 80 years old. His films were exhibited, in addition to movie theaters, in some of the most important museums in the United States and Europe. Those that the FICBUEU public will be able to see were made between 1966 and 2011.

 

«Retrospective» and «Caderno»

Jonas Mekas’ films combine everyday and significant moments of life from a point of view very close to poetry and documentary. The anthology of his work that makes up this year’s “Retrospective” section of the FICBUEU proposes a visual tour that shows the artist’s relationship with his surroundings, accentuating his nonconformity.

Among the Mekas films that will be shown in Bueu are the emblematic Cassis (1966), which challenges narrative conventions by capturing everyday life in an uninterrupted sequence of images, or the 365 DAY PROJECT, from 2007, composed of a short film made during every day of the year.

The «Caderno» #5 of the Bueu International Film Festival returns to the figure of Mekas, his context, or his contributions. It is also an interesting window into the New York cultural avant-garde of the 60s and 70s, in which Mekas occupied a prominent place. The researcher and teacher Nieves Febrer, author of the «Caderno», will participate in the FICBUEU to present the «Caderno» and reflect, at the same time as the public, on Mekas’ work.

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Screenings, colloquiums, children’s activities and all ficbueu program returns from the 6 to 21 of september

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The Bueu International Film Festival presents the image of its seventeenth edition

09.07.24. BUEU. The Bueu International Film Festival, FICBUEU, will be held this year between September 6 and 21. The Buenos Aires contest, which each year presents a careful selection of short films by author made around the world, reaches its seventeenth edition.

In addition to the screenings of the official competition section or others such as Descubertas or GZ_00, in which you can see what the youngest filmmakers are doing, the FICBUEU will once again invite the public to participate in colloquiums, or in different activities related to the seventh art. Music and the tapas route through the fishing village are also back. Bueu is the center of the Festival. Starting September 16, with the MINIFIC, activities with educational centers in the Bueu area or the family screening session will return.

New image

The Festival has already published on its social media channels its image for this seventeenth edition, closely related to this year’s proposal for the Retrospectiva section, which the FICBUEU will dedicate to one of the main experimental film creators of the second half of the year. twentieth century.

Before the official start of the Festival, there will be screenings on the beach. He had already done it last year. Starting September 6, all FICBUEU activity returns

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