Between October 16 and 23, during their stay on the island, they will receive training and support from a team of experts led by the screenwriter of “20,000 especies de abellas”, Estíbaliz Urresola

28.08.24. BUEU. They are between 25 and 28 years old, building their professional careers around creating stories in audiovisual media and film. They submitted compelling screenplay projects that were chosen to participate in the FICBUEU Residency on the Island of Ons, a project by the Bueu International Film Festival aimed at supporting the development of short films. The selected participants will share both individual and group training and advisory activities during the residency on the Island of Ons, from October 16 to 23. Moreover, one of the short films will be supported for its production.

This year’s selected participants are Camila Mailén Bóveda Figueira, born in Argentina in 1996; Ana Calderón (Caldes de Malavella, Girona, 1998); Anna Llargués (Barberà del Vallès, Barcelona, 1999), and Miguel Casaseca from Lugo (1997). The first three presented dramatic short film screenplays titled, respectively, Área Central, Cotorra, and Àvia Peix. Casaseca submitted a mockumentary titled From NASA to Merceditas.

Training Team

The training team will be led by director and screenwriter Estibaliz Urresola, who will serve as a mentor. Her debut feature film, 20,000 especies de abellas, which was screened during the last edition of FICBUEU, won the Goya Awards for Best New Director and Best Original Screenplay this year. Over the course of a week, the Basque director will hold individual sessions with each of the participants to review and advance their works.

In addition to individual mentoring and group discussions with Urresola, the residents will have access to three specialized workshops to strengthen their projects: Guión con perspectiva de xénero, led by Carmen Ávalos; A importancia da coordinación de intimidade nunha rodaxe da man, presented by Tábata Cerezo and Lucía Delgado, founders of the specialized company IntimAct; and Primeiros pasos tras a finalización dun guión, taught by Beli Martínez.

Production of One of the Short Films

At the end of the program, the organization will once again select one of the participating screenplays for development and production. In the first edition of the residency, held last year, the chosen film for production was Sismes, by Jordi Sanz Angrill, co-written with David Junyent. 

Sismes tells the story of Mila, who, months after the mysterious departure of her ex-husband, returns to the volcanic island where they spent their honeymoon – which she recorded with a video camera. She becomes obsessed with filming herself to recreate the supposed counter-shots of the images from the trip, where only her ex-husband appears. By doing so, the protagonist seeks not only to relive her past but to merge and manipulate these images from different times to create a new narrative, a new memory.

• This year’s “Xornadas Cinematógraficas” is dedicated to reflect on the imprint of the political context of each era in cinema
• The members of the podcasts “Todopoderosos” and “Aquí hay dragones” will hold two meetings with the public on Sunday, September 8th
• Members of the podcast “La escóbula de la brújula” will participate virtually in a round table at the event

08.08.24. BUEU: How does the political context in which films are made impact on them? That is the topic that this year’s “Xornadas Cinematográficas” of the International Film Festival of Bueu will deal with. They will be held on Saturday, September 7, the first full day of activities of FICBUEU in its 2024 edition. In this first weekend of the Festival, the public of the event will be able to attend colloquiums, book presentations or meetings, physical and virtual, with the members of three of the most followed podcasts about cinema and culture in Spain.

The “Xornadas Cinematográficas”, which FICBUEU includes in its program for the third consecutive year, is a space for reflection and thought about cinema. Filmmakers, essayists, or professionals from different trades of the audiovisual sector participate. Each year, they are dedicated to a theme. In the seventeenth edition of the Bueu International Film Festival, they will address the relationship, the relationships, between cinema and politics. 

<<Be realistic: do the imposible!>>

Be realistic: do the impossible! The phrase, one of the slogans of the student movement of the 60s and coined by the philosopher Ernst Bloch, gives title to the master class with which the “Xornadas Cinematográficas” will begin. It will be given by Camil Ungureanu, professor of Political Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. 

Ungureanu has among his lines of research and reflection the relationship between cinema and politics. He will give a master class on this subject at FICBUEU. Then, the critics Daniela Urzola and Belit Lago will delve into the subject in the next “Xornadas Cinematográficas” conversation, entitled Trauma and reconstruction.

That same Saturday, in the afternoon, it will be the turn of one of the great filmmakers participating in this year’s FICBUEU. Jaime Rosales will hold a conversation with film critic Xavier Montoriol. It will be after part of the team of the podcast “La escóbula de la brújula” will participate in a virtual round table with the Festival attendees to talk about Art and advertising. The cinema between the wars.

On Sunday, as a podcast

Filmmaker Rodrigo Cortés, writer Juan Gómez-Jurado and screenwriter and communicator Arturo González Campos make up two of the most interesting podcasts in the Spanish cultural sphere: “Todopododerosos” and the irreverent “Aquí hay dragones”. All of them are also known for their careers in film, literature and audiovisuals, respectively, and they will once again join FICBUEU. It will be on Sunday, September 8 at 12 noon. They will talk about the change that the incorporation of sound meant for cinema and filmmaking. Later, at 5 p.m., they will sign books in an event that can be accessed free of charge after collecting the corresponding invitation at the box office.

González Campos, Cortés and Gómez-Jurado had already participated in 2018 in the Bueu International Film Festival. Their presentation at El Centro Social do Mar, where all FICBUEU face-to-face activities are held, registered on that occasion a full house. The activity was very well appreciated by the audience.

The participation of disseminators and scholars of the seventh art and audiovisuals is completed by the meeting that the public of FICBUEU will have with Professor Nieves Febrer. She is the author of the Festival’s Caderno #5, which deals with the figure of the creator of American experimental cinema, Jonas Mekas. She will present it on Saturday, September 14, during the “Retrospective” section, dedicated to Mekas.

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.

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

Carmen Ávalos, Tábata Cerezo, Lucía Delgado, and Beli Martínez complete the teaching staff

Bueu 06/05/2024 —  The II edition of the FICBUEU Residency, which will take place during the month of October, announces today the team of professionals who will accompany the residents during their stay on Ons Island. The training program, dedicated to the comprehensive treatment of short films in their development stage, will once again feature different prestigious figures from the film industry, who will personally accompany and mentor each project.

This time, the training team will be led by director and screenwriter Estibaliz Urresola as a mentor. Graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the University of the Basque Country and in Film Editing from the ECIT, her debut film, 20,000 especies de abejas, screened during the last edition of FICBUEU, was awarded at this year’s Goya Awards for Best New Direction and Best Original Screenplay. Throughout a week, the Basque director will conduct individual sessions with each of the authors for the review of the works and their progress.

In addition to individual tutorials and group exchange spaces with Urresola, the residents will have access to three specific training sessions on different subjects to strengthen their projects: gender perspective scriptwriting taught by Carmen Ávalos. Doctor, screenwriter, and anthropologist with extensive experience in film and teaching. She has conducted various seminars and courses on writing scripts with a gender perspective, being a reference at the national level; the importance of intimacy coordination on set by IntimAct (Tábata Cerezo and Lucía Delgado). Founded in 2021, IntimAct becomes a pioneering project in intimacy coordination in Spain, being among the first professionals certified as such in our territory; and first steps after finishing a script, taught by Beli Martínez. Doctor in Audiovisual Communication and founding producer of Filmika Galaika, she becomes one of the main promoters of Novo Cinema Galego.

After completing the program, the organization will once again select one of the participating scripts for its development and production, which will be carried out through a collaboration agreement with a Galician production company.

The proposal reception period is now open and will extend until May 15. All information and documentation regarding the call is available on the website www.ficbueu.com/residencia

Bueu, April 30, 2024 — FICBUEU announced today the opening of the call for its Schools Section for the 17th edition of the festival.

This section has been shaping a space within the event for several years, dedicated to audiovisual work being done in educational centers and faculties. The Schools Section has three competitive categories: Special Education, Children and Primary, and Secondary Education (both for Galician centers), as well as Film Schools and Faculties (open to both international institutions and those throughout Galicia).

The call’s guidelines and short film registration form can be found on the website www.ficbueu.com/minific, available from May 1 to June 20, the closing date for submissions.

All audiovisual works created during the school years 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 that have not previously participated in the event are eligible for submission, from any educational center, faculty, or audiovisual training school based in the Galician community, except for international film schools.

The selected works for the FICBUEU 2024 Schools Section will be announced in August 2024 and will compete for one of the four section prizes: Best Short Film in Special Education Children and Primary (Trophy and audiovisual material worth €150), Best Short Film in Secondary Education (Trophy and audiovisual material worth €150), Best Short Film in International Schools (Trophy and €250), and Best Short Film in Image and Sound Schools and Galician Faculties (Trophy and audiovisual training worth €250).

The winning shorts will be announced during the Gala of Galician Schools FICBUEU 2024, taking place in September during the MiniFIC week, in collaboration with Kalandraka and the Novas Foundation.