havana/The Gibara Worldwide Movie Pageant, in Holguin, will current movies from 25 nations, from August 6 to 10, the organizers stated this Tuesday.
On this 18th version of the competitors, created by the late Cuban movie director Humberto Solás, 83 movies will compete for the Lucía awards within the classes of function movies (11), brief fiction movies (24), 11 function size documentary, 22 brief documentaries and 15 animation items.
The director of the Pageant, Sergio Benvenuto Solás, defined that this time the position of Cinema in Development will probably be restarted, which can reward the tasks with post-production providers and doable distribution of the movies, and for the primary time the Poor Cinema Manufacturing facility will probably be held, devoted to selling improvement initiatives.
Underneath the model Filma el Oriente!, the movie occasion will open its screenings with the movie Undocumentedby Chilean-Canadian director Christian de la Cortina.
The choice of movies that it presents will probably be led by Cuba, with 29 suggestions, adopted by Brazil (14), Spain (9), Argentina (6), Colombia, Chile, Hungary and the US ( 2).
The administrators of the occasion introduced that the Lucía de Honor 2024 award will probably be given to the well-known Cuban filmmakers Manuel Herrera Reyes (1942), Manuel Pérez Paredes (1939), and the director of pictures Livio Delgado Camacho (1938).
Benvenuto Solás additionally indicated that traditional areas throughout the program will probably be maintained, comparable to collateral exhibitions, particular exhibitions, theoretical boards, exhibitions, live shows and theater performances.
