FICGibara proposes a historical and foundational glance
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The XVIII Gibara International Film Festival (FICGibara), which will be held from August 6 to 10 in this coastal town, will take a strong, historical and foundational look inspired by the Non-Budget Film Manifesto, by linking the community with the seventh art and economic-social development.
Sergio Benvenuto Solás, director of FICGibara, told the Cuban News Agency that under the slogan of this edition, Film the East!, the aim is to influence audiovisual growth and local progress to make other related projects visible in the search for a sustainable future.
He expressed the need to support filmmakers with their works, and for this purpose the Non-Budget Film factory will be implemented for the first time with the objective of promoting low-budget cinematographic initiatives created in the eastern provinces and in Camagüey.
The Films in Progress space for Cuban and foreign filmmakers will also be resumed, which will award projects with post-production services and possible distribution of the films.
At press conference recently held in this province, the director of the Festival highlighted the visual design in charge of the Cuban designer Nelson Ponce, creator of the colors and graphic appearance adopted by the event since its beginnings.
Humberto Solás (1941-2008), famous Cuban filmmaker and founder of FICGibara, states in the Non-Budget Film Manifesto that this modality does not refer to a cinema lacking ideas or artistic quality but of restricted economy executed both in the least developed or peripheral countries, as well as within the governing societies at an economic-cultural level.
The XVIII edition of the Gibara International Film Festival will open with the screening of the fiction feature film “Sin Papeles” (2023), by the Chilean-Canadian producer Christian de la Cortina.
After receiving around 900 works, the Selection Committee chose a total of 83 films, mostly from Cuba, Brazil, Spain and Argentina, for the official competition for the Lucía Awards.
In commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry, the Honorary Lucía Award—the highest award of the event—will be given to filmmakers Manuel Herrera (1942), Manuel Pérez Paredes (1939), and director of photography Livio Delgado (1938).
