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01 Aug 2024
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE SEMILLERU CAMPUS CINEMATOGRÁFICO (FILM CAMPUS) IS OPEN
Divertia Gijón S.A. opens the call for SEMILLERU Film Campus, whose third edition will be held from 28 October to 23 November, coinciding its second phase with the 62nd edition of the FICX. SCampus is part of SEMILLERU, a sowing space, a training project and a laboratory for emerging filmmakers,...
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01 Aug 2024
OPEN CALL FOR SEMILLERU LAB MODALITY : DEVELOPMENT OF PROJECTS LABORATORY
Divertia Gijón S.A. opens the call for SEMILLERU Lab Modality | Development, the film laboratory programme that will take place in Xixón on 18, 19, 20 and 21 November. SEMILLERU Lab Modality | Development is part of SEMILLERU, a space for the nurturing and care of film projects with the...
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16 May 2024
THE 62ND EDITION OF THE GIJON/XIXÓN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF OPENS THE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Gijón/Xixón International Film Festival (FICX) opens the call to present feature films and short films in the 62nd edition, which will be celebrated between the 15th and 23rd of November, 2024. This prestigious event is dedicated to bringing together a wide selection of quality auteur cinema from around the world,...
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29 Apr 2024
'WOMAN BITES DOG' WINS PARTICIPATION IN SEMILLERU LAB 2024
The project Woman Bites Dog, which participated in the seventh edition of MECAS last weekend in Las Palmas, in the Almost Made Cinema modality, won the SEMILLERU Lab Award for the diffusio of the project. The award consists of the participation of the project in SEMILLERU Lab 2024, which will...
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21 Dec 2023
THE 61ST FICX TAKES STOCK OF ONE OF ITS BEST EDITIONS EVEREL 61 FICX HACE BALANCE DE UNA DE SUS MEJORES EDICIONES
The 61st edition of the Gijon International Film Festival, celebrated between the 17th and 25th of November in 2023, screened 191 title exhibitions in 204 different sessions throughout Gijon through the exclusively offered cycles within the FILMIN portal. The combined number (both in person and online) of viewers and viewings...
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25 Nov 2023
ALICIA LUNA, COMADRE OF CINEMA 2023: «I'M ALWAYS FIGHTING»
The screenwriter Alicia Luna will receive the Comadre de Cine Award at the closing ceremony of the 61st FICX. The Festival is giving her this award in collaboration with La Tertulia Feminista Les Comadres to celebrate not only her achievements in her career, but also her firm commitment to the...
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25 Nov 2023
AUGUSTO M. TORRES: «I HADN'T SEEN THE WOODEN HAND SINCE IT WAS PROJECTED IN PESARO, IN 1968, AND I WAS COMPLETELY AMAZED»
If we had to write a short biography, we could classify Augusto M. Torres as a writer and filmmaker, but that would be an understatement. At 81 years of age, the Madrid-born writer has had so many facets to his life that to pigeonhole him in any one of them...
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25 Nov 2023
A COKE AWAY WITH… THE DIRECTORS OF 'DISCO BOY' AND 'AFTER', TWO OUTSTANDING DEBUT FILMS IN DIALOGUE WITH EACH OTHER
Ricardo Apilánez, a member of the FICX selection committee, talks to Giacomo Abbruzzese, the director of Disco Boy; and Anthony Lapia and Natalia Wiszniewska, the director and actress, artistic designer and creative producer of After. Both films have in common, in addition to being debut films, having premiered at the...
