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Sitges Film Festival » The best Spanish fantastic cinema will be at Sitges 2012

Sitges Film Festival » The best Spanish fantastic cinema will be at Sitges 2012

The best Spanish fantastic cinema will be at Sitges 2012

05-09-2012

Spanish fantastic cinema will be the protagonist with a capital “P” at the 45^th Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, to be held from the 4^th to the 14^th of October, as presented this morning by Ángel Sala, director of the festival, at the headquarters of the Academia of Cinematic Arts and Sciences in Madrid. Twelve Spanish films, nine of the Catalan, are a part of the official program, which will be released over the next few weeks. 

An example of this commitment can be found in the Festival’s opening itself, featuring the European premiere of El Cuerpo(The Body), a Catalan production from Rodar y Rodar, Antena 3Films and TV3, that is Oriol Paulos’ directorial debut. Its cast includes two of the most outstanding names in present-day Spanish film: Belén Rueda and José Coronado. The promotion of younger talent continues with another debut feature film presented in the Official Selection: Insensibles, directed by Juan Carlos Medina. An A Contracorriente Films production, with its pledge to genre based on a historical premise.

Sitges 2012 also receives two established filmmakers, Óscar Aibar and Daniel Calparsoro. The first will be presenting the world premiere of the production El Bosc, a fantasy-horror movie starring Àlex Brendemühl, while the second, following his success with his latest genre proposals for television, will be participating with the world premiere of Invasor, an action and mystery thriller.

As proof of the progression of celebrities who have emerged from Sitges’ harvest over recent years, in a special event the Festival will be programming Lo Imposible (The Impossible), J. A. Bayona’s film destined to be one of the extraordinary events of the year on a worldwide level. Also, at a special screening and as an example of the work done by films schools and their rich harvest of talent, Sitges will be offering Escándalo Films’ production Animals, directed by Marçal Forés, one of this year’s most surprising debut films. In the documentary section it is also important to note the premiere of Leonora Carrington: El juego surrealista (Leonora Carrington: The Surrealist Game), by Javier Martín Domínguez, which will be competing in the No Ficción (Non-Fiction) section of the Nuevas Visiones (New Visions) category.

Sitges 2012’s program with a Spanish hallmark will also include Argento Dracula 3D, an Enrique Cerezo co-production, starring Thomas Kretschmann (Best Actor at Sitges 2007), Asia Argento and Unax Ugalde, among others.

Spanish cinema will be present in all the Festival’s sections, formats and facets, including approximately fifty Spanish-produced short films. And also in the parallel activities in the Noves Visions section, revolving around works from independent creators like Karlos Alaustrey, Iker Irrutía or Borja Echevarría. The latter will be presenting his feature length film Qué pelo más guay. In addition, the Sitges Forum will be organizing a round table discussion about the importance of genre films for Spanish cinema in recent years and the Sitges Festival’s role as a receiving antenna for new talent and a driving force of the Catalan industry since the late nineties.

Regarding its relationship with the Spanish audiovisual sector, the Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia is pleased to be reinforcing its collaboration with the Entity of Management of Audiovisual Producers’ Rights (Egeda), through the VeoSitges service for the viewing of Spanish films present at the Festival by professionals who request it.

LEONORA CARRINGTON & EL JUEGO SURREALISTA, en el FESTIVAL DE SITGES

España/ 2012 / HD / Color / 80 minutos

Dirección · Director

| Javier Martín-Domínguez

Producción · Produced by

| Sonia Tercero Ramiro / Paz Bilbao

Intérpretes · Cast

| Leonora Carrington, Gabriel Weisz, Elena Poniatowska, Alan Glass, Carlos Monsivais, Luis Carlos Emerich, Hermanas Pecannins

Sinopsis

La última superviviente del movimiento surrealista cuenta la odisea de una mujer por ser libre.  Se rebela contra una educación represiva y escapa de Londres  a Paris con Max Ernst. La invasión nazi rompe su felicidad. El es internado en un campo de concentración y ella va a España recien acabada la Guerra Civil. Tras salir del sanatorio psiquiátrico de Santander, se casa en Lisboa con el diplomático y poeta mexicano Renato Leduc y van a a Nueva York. En México se casa con Chiki Weiez, ayudante de Capa que salvó los negativos de la maleta mexicana. Falleció en 2011 a los 94 años, dejando un gran legado como pintora y escritora. Leonora cuenta su vida y desgrana sus opiniones sobre el arte en una serie de conversaciones mantenidas en su casa de la calle Chihuahua en la Colinia Roma de México DF.

Synopsis

The last living memory of the Surrealist group  recounts a woman's struggle for freedom from an oppressive education,  to explore and bring out her unconscious, to the point of a battle against madness in a Spanish psychiatrist in the forties. She escaped to Paris with Max Ernst. After the nazi invasión of France, Max is arrested and Leonora run to Spain, where the Civil War just ended. In Lisbon  she married the Mexican diplomat and poet Renato Leduc. After emigrating to New York and México,  Leonora married the Hungarian jew photographer Chiki Weisz, who  saved the newly appeared Capa´s negatives of the Mexican suitcase. She died in 2011 being 94 years old.

Biografía  del director

Director y periodista, estudió cine en Nueva York, donde dirigió sus primeros cortos. Realizador de documentales y programas de televisión. Corresponsal en USA y Japón, secretario general de Televisión Española TVE. Recibio el premio Cirilo Rodriguez y el Príncipe de Viana por “De la piel pa dentro. Dirigió el Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla desde 2008 al pasado año. Jurado en los festivales de Sarajevo,  Cine Experimental de Madrid, Moscú y otros

Biography

Script writer and director, studied film in New York where he shot his first short-films. He has directed several documentaries and tv programs  A foreign correspondent in the USA and Japan, he was secretary general for Spanish public television. He also directed the Seville Film Festival since 2008.  Jury at festivals Duch as Sarajevo, Experimental de Madrid and Moscow.