Morelia Film Fest Kicks Off
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October 15, 2010
Mexico City – Now in its eighth year, the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) shares its cinematic wonders with the public in Morelia, Michoacan, beginning Saturday, Oct. 16 and runs through October 24, 2010.
The festival will focus on its four official sections in competition: Mexican Short Film, Mexican Documentary, Michoacán Section and Mexican Feature Film. This year there will be 46 shorts, 20 documentaries, 13 Michoacán works and seven features by directors from different states in Mexico: Michoacán, Nuevo León, Jalisco, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Yucatán, Baja California and Mexico City.
Since 2008, the winner of the fiction and animated shorts have been considered for an Oscar nomination. FICM director Daniela Michel said that Biutiful, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Javier Bardem, will be screened at the inauguration ceremony. Accompanying Iñárritu, she said, will be Argentine actress Maricel Álvarez, and the team of talented Mexican professionals who collaborated in the film: Rodrigo Prieto, Brigitte Broch, Lynn Fainchtein, José Antonio García and Martín Hernández.
The Mexican Feature Section, exclusively for first- or second-time directors, includes: Acorazado, by Álvaro Curiel de Icaza; A tiro de piedra, by Sebastián Hiriart; De día y de noche, by Alejandro Molina; Marimbas del infierno, by Julio Hernández Cordón; Somos lo que hay, by Jorge Michel Grau; Tierra madre, by Dylan Verrechia; and Vete más lejos Alicia, by Elisa Miller. As it does every year, the Festival will screen a selection of films from Critics’ Week of the Cannes International Film Festival 2010: Copacabana, by Marc Fitoussi (France); The Myth of the American Sleepover, by David Robert Mitchell (U.S.); Sound of Noise, by Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson (Sweden); and Armadillo, by Janus Metz (Denmark), which won the Critics’ Week´s Grand Prize, sponsored by Cinépolis.
Thanks to the support of the Filmoteca of the UNAM, the 8th edition will pay tribute to the Alva Brothers - Guillermo, Eduardo and Carlos, distinguished Michoacan cinematographic pioneers, who made their mark in history and in Mexican cinema. This year, the festival will premiere more than 55 of the best Mexican and international films. Among the Mexican premieres are: El Baile de San Juan, by Francisco Athié; Nómadas, by Ricardo Benet; La Otra familia, by Gustavo Loza; and Revolución, a film made up of shorts about the Mexican Revolution by 10 well-known Mexican directors.
Festival venues will be located at the Cinépolis Centro Morelia and Cinépolis Las Américas complexes. In addition, there will be free screenings at the Casa Natal de Morelos, the Aula Mater de la Universidad Michoacana San Nicolás de Hidalgo, la Plaza Benito Juárez; and conferences at the Auditorio José Rubén Romero. For the sixth consecutive year, the Teatro Emperador Caltzontzin in Pátzcuaro will have parallel daily showings of films as an extention of the festival. Terry Gilliam, the British director who made such classics as Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Time Bandits, The Adventures of Barón Munchausen and Brazil, will be the guest of honor.
The 8th Morelia International Film Festival is possible thanks to the invaluable and generous support of the State Government of Michoacán and its different offices, the Honorable Ayuntamiento de Morelia, the National Council of Culture and the Arts, the Mexican Film Institute, the Cineteca Nacional, the UNAM, Channel 22 and Channel 11, Cinépolis and innumerable public and private institutions and organizations, including the French, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish and United States embassies, the Italian Cultural Institute, the Goethe Institute, the Filmoteca of the UNAM, as well as HSBC and Sony, and many others.
For more information, visit their website, moreliafilmfest.com. |
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