The 1st Ibero-American film screening of shorts will be held in Torrelodones, Madrid from June 27 to 30. Twenty shorts will be participating in the contest. The winners will be awarded cash prizes. During the event there will also be exhibited installations and photographs, and there will be a special showing of clips of the Sierra de Madrid.
On the night of May 7, at the age of 77 years, Cuban filmmaker Jorge Fraga died in Bogota, Colombia. Founder of Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) in 1959, with the creation in 1986 of the International Film and TV School of San Antonio de los Baños, Fraga joined the original faculty as professor, in addition to be the academic director and chief of publications of our school.
Regular contributor of our School, the film editor Roberto Perpignani received again the David di Donatello, the most important film distinction awarded in Italy, for the edition of Caesar must die, the last film directed by the Taviani brothers. In the past Roberto won the award for The Night of Shooting Stars and The Postman.
Caja de Cortos (Box of Shorts) the short film competition recently opened by TAL (Latin-American TV, Brazil), to reward American films. Winners will receive cash incentives and their works will be scheduled to be broadcasted on the network of channels that are part TAL TV. Registrations are open until June 11.
The film thesis, Alter ego, directed by Rigel A. Salema and produced by Camelia Farfán, both Cuban graduates, will compete in the International Festival of Huesca, Spain, to be held from next June 9 to 16. Camilo Soratti, Alejandra Briganti and Elvira Peña, also participated in the making of the film, in the photography, editing and sound respectively.
In the vicinity of the school garden, near to the International Workshop facilities and the buildings that host teachers and students of international workshops, is being built a small ranch and a stable, for laying hens, , in order to enhance agricultural activities of the School and to satisfy the rising consumption of goods.
Last April 26 we held a question and answer session with French actress Isabelle Huppert at Sala Glauber Rocha screening room of our School. Honored twice as best actress in Cannes, Huppert has worked with distinguished filmmakers such as Haneke, Chabrol, Pialat and Brillante Mendoza, among many others. After meeting with our students, the actress made a tour around the facilities of the school and wrote a graffiti: "Just two more things: Voyage et cinéma".
Cuban Minister of Culture, Rafael Bernal, gave the Orden por la Cultura Nacional to former EICTV principal, Dominican Tanya Valette during the recent concluded Tenth edition of Gibara film festival, Cine Pobre. Tanya was also one of the members of the working progress jury, which was one of the most important of the event.
Chosen among 1700 films from 320 different film schools, the short film, Los anfitriones, directed by Peruvian graduate Miguel Angel Moulet and produced by the also graduate, Cuban Ibette Liang, will compete in the Cinefoundation, a session devoted to film schools of the prestigious Cannes Film Fest.
Rebusque, directed by Colombian graduate Edwin Umaña (14th Generation EICTV) and the documentary Estonia, thesis film directed by Brazilian graduate, Lucas Bonolo (20th Generation EICTV), will take part in Short Film Corner Cannes next May 16th to 27th. Both films included EICTV graduates in their making process.
More than a meeting, what happened on the night of April 9th at EICTV, was a real master class with filmmaker, photographer, and illustrator of the light, Brazilian director, Walter Carvalho. For more than five hours, this genius of our time shared his thoughts with the audience at Glauber Rocha screening room.
The meeting with Iranian director, Asghar Farhadi, was broadcasted via streaming for the whole world last April 8th from the legendary Glauber Rocha screening room of EICTV. Farhadi left his graffiti on one of the walls of the school, between the graffiti written by Birri and Coppola. It reads: "I will never forget this chance of being among you: Asghar Farhadi."
The Grand Prize went for Brazilian Clara Albinati’s graduation thesis, Sobre el concepto de historia, a sort of experimental short taking Walter Benjamin’s homonymous essay as point of reference. The film was produced by Cuban Ivette Liang and the cinematography by French Roman Lechapelier.
In two different occasions last semester, EICTV graduates, Llaima Suwani and Manuela Blanco visited the Audiovisual School Abidin Kaid Saleh in the Sahara with the purpose of imparting two workshops: Autorretrato (Self-portrait) and Postproduction of Audio and Video, addressed to students of that school.
Open call Pushing the Boundaries workshop: Cinematographic Montage, in Brazil with Professor Editor, Argentinean Alberto Ponce, next June 4 to 15 in Sao Pablo, Brazil. Ponce has edited several short and feature films in Latin America and has also been regular teacher at EICTV, a reason that made him agrees to impart his knowledge in Brazil.
High Studies EICTV launches a new call: a real gem that is the workshop in charge of celebrated Cuban writer, Francisco López Sacha. Sacha, author of several essays, novels and books about cinema, accepted to impart the workshop El Diálogo y la Comedia, to be held next May and June, 2012.
High Studies offers two courses for the second semester of 2012. It is the proven "Family": Audiovisual Training Workshop IV from the perspective of Genre for Indigenous and Peasant Leaders, and also offers the specializing workshop: Advanced Photography: Color in digital post-production process.
The EICTV community supports student Leiqui Uriana, who was victim of abuse and discrimination at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela as she was on her trip to Spain to participate in Bilbao Film Festival with the chapter of To Be a Human Being series directed by her.
The 52nd edition of FICCI (Cartagena International Film Festival) celebrated the meeting of the arts in a space designed for dialogue between cinema, literature, music and photography. eXtras, the photo exhibition by Nicolas Ordóñez Carrillo was opened at the Museum of Modern Arts in Cartagena, as part of the Film Festival colateral activities. It was a tribute to the convergence of such art forms.
Colombian film, Sofia y el terco, directed by Colombian graduate Andres Burgos, starring famous actress Carmen Maura, got the Special Jury prize competing with other 12 films participating in Colombia al 100 session of Cartagena International Film Festival.
In order to contribute to the development and improvement of the narrative and dramatic grounds of Latin American cinema, the EICTV, through its Department of Script, gives authors from Spanish-speaking countries and Brazil, advisory services and international consulting for scripts.
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