The Skyline Benidorm Film Festival kicks off its third edition tomorrow with the screening of the short films competition and parallel activities

The 'III Skyline Benidorm Film Festival' kicks off tomorrow with the screening of short films in the CAM Culture Classroom (Calle Alameda, 17) and the first of the three thematic film workshops, which will be held in Torrejó. A festival that for four days (April 4 to 7) aims, as stated by the mayor of culture Ana Pellicer, "to involve the city in the film culture through a genre on the rise as is the short films, as well as several parallel activities. " There will be a total of 25 short films that will compete in the three contest categories: Best Documentary, National Fiction and Valencian Short Films; They will be exhibited in 6 different blocks from Thursday 4 to Saturday 6 April.

In the category of Fiction Shorts will compete 'Greta', by Daniel Calavera; 'Volcánica', by Alberto Velasco; 'El jarrón', by Rubén Tejerina; 'La nortia', by Carlos Baena; 'Un día en el parque', Diego Porral; 'Destino: Verano', by Antonio Sosa; 'Tono menor', by Iván Sainz-Pardo; 'Caronte', by Luis Tinoco; 'Bolck 24', by Fernando Pozo; 'La Guarida', by Iago de Soto; 'Mi hermano Juan', by Cristina and Mª José Martín; 'Nomeolvides', by Ferrán Navarro-Beltrán; 'El llibre', by Francesca Catalá; 'Best Seller', by Max Lemcke; 'Uncoloured Girl', by Charlie García Villalba; and 'Flotando', by Frankie de Leonardis.

In the category of Valencian Shorts they will compete 'Minotauro', of Greg A. Sebastian; 'Ipdentical', by Marco Huertas; 'El olvido', by Xenia Gray and Cristina Vaello; 'There is something in the dark', by Fran Casanova; and 'Manspreading', by Abdelatif Hwidar.

In the category of Documentary Shorts they will compete '2001 Flashes in the dark', by Pedro González Bermúdez; 'Kyoko', by Marcos Cabota and Joan Bover; 'Wounds against oblivion', by Raqual Agea; and 'Our life as refugee children in Europe', by Silvia Venegas.

The Skyline Benidorm Film Festival works under the formula of payment by selection, in such a way that all these works will receive 200 euros. In addition to the payment for selection, the festival will give four awards: the best short film, which will receive 550 euros; and three prizes of 350 euros for the best Valencian short film, the best documentary and the best script. There is also a prize for the best short film made by students: a distribution bonus in charge of the Movibeta platform, which will allow them to send their work to national and international festivals

Workshops in El Torrejó

The Skyline Benidorm Film Festival has as an added value to offer film lovers an opportunity to perform other leisure activities linked to it. The director of the contest, Beatriz Hernández, says that "within our complementary programming young people have a leading role with didactic and leisure activities aimed at enhancing their creativity and helping them to know and better understand the cinematographic language."

There will be three workshops given by professionals of the audiovisual sector. On Thursday April 4 will take place the workshop 'Learning to see cinema: film genres', aimed at students and teachers of Secondary Education and will be borne by the film critic Juan Carlos Gascón, a graduate in Geography and History from the Complutense University of Madrid and Master in Dramatic Art by the University of Alicante. In this workshop attendees will dive into the origins of cinema and its genres, addressing issues such as language, beauty and history behind each film

On Saturday the workshop of 'Introduction to the production of short films' will be held, given by Pepe Jordana, producer of a score of short films that accumulate more than 300 awards at festivals. In this workshop, and for two hours, Jordana will explain to the participants the whole process of creating a short film, from the making of the script to its distribution in festivals, internet and television.

The last workshop, the 'Stop Motion', will be on Saturday at 5.30 pm and will be run by the animator and winner of two Goyas Pablo Llorens, who will teach participants from 5 to 10 years approximately how to animate and give movement to a doll created with plasticine. In addition, participants will take home a small film of their own made during the workshop.

Exhibitions

The exhibition 'La sombra de la ley.Cinematographic costumes', remains open until May 5 at 'Boca del Calvari' museum in Benidorm showing part of the work of the costume designer Clara Bilbao designed for the film of the same name. Clara Bilbao won the Goya Award for the best costumes of the Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences of Spain in 2019 for this work, and in 2012 and 2016 for 'Nadie quiere la noche' (Isabel Coixet) and 'Blackthron' (Mateo Gil) ), respectively.

On the other hand, the hall of the Aula CAM hosts, until April 7, the exhibition of posters of the finalist short films of the festival.

PROGRAMMING OF ACTIVITIES

THURSDAY 4 APRIL

12: 00h.- Workshop "Aprendiendo a hacer cine". Taught by Juan Carlos Gascón. Torrejó Building Registration: info@skylinefest.es

18: 00h.- Block one of shorts to contest and subsequent colloquium with its directors. 'Tono menor', 'Heridas contra el olvido', 'Mi hermano Juan' and 'El jarrón' will be screened. CAM classroom. (Calle Alameda, 17)

20: 00h.- Block two of shorts to contest and subsequent colloquium with their directors. They will screen 'Uncoloured girl', 'There is something in the dark', 'Un día en el parque', 'La noria'. CAM classroom. (Calle Alameda, 17)

22: 30h.- Screening of Blocks one and two of short films with English subtitles. Hotel Dynastic (Avda. Ametlla de Mar, 15) and Cervecería L'Abadìa (Avda. Europa, 5).

FRIDAY, APRIL 5

12:00 h.- Meeting of Film Festivals of the Valencian Community with Catalunya Film Festivals. Torrejó Building

18: 00h.- Block three of shorts to contest and subsequent colloquium with their directors. It will be screened 'Charon', 'Nuestra vida como niños refugiados en Europa', 'Volcánica' and 'Block 24'. CAM Classroom (Calle Alameda, 17)

20: 00h.- Block four of shorts to contest and subsequent colloquium with their directors. They will be screened 'Minotauro', 'El llibre', '2001 Flashes in the dark' and 'Flotando'. CAM Classroom (Calle Alameda, 17)

22: 30h.- Screening of Blocks three and four of short films with English subtitles.
Hotel Dynastic (Avda. Ametlla de Mar, 15) and Cervecería L'Abadìa (Avda Europa, 5)

SATURDAY 6 APRIL

11: 00h.- Screening young shorts. CAM Classroom (Calle Alameda, 17)

12: 00h.- Workshop for young people "Initiation to the production of short films". Taught by Pepe Jordana.Aula CAM (Calle Alameda, 17). Registration: info@skylinefest.es

17: 30h.- Stop Motion workshop in plasticine for children. Taught by Pablo Llorens. Registration € 7, limited places. Registration at info@skylinefest.es. Torrejó Building

18: 00h.- Block five of shorts to contest and subsequent colloquium with their directors. They will screen 'Greta', 'Best seller', 'Destino: verano', 'El olvido' and 'Manspreading'. CAM Classroom (Calle Alameda, 17)

20: 00h.- Block six of shorts to contest and subsequent colloquium with their directors. 'Nomeolvides', 'Kyoko', 'Ipdentical' and 'La guarida' will be screened. CAM Classroom (Calle Alameda, 17)

22: 30h.- Screening of Blocks five and six with English subtitles.
Hotel Dynastic (Avda. Ametlla de Mar, 15) and Cervecería L'Abadìa (Avda. Europa, 5)

SUNDAY, APRIL 7

12: 00h.- Closing ceremony, awards ceremony and screening of the winning shorts.
Assembly Hall of the City Hall. (Plaza de SSMM Los Reyes de España)

EXHIBITIONS

.- Boca del Calvari Museum: Exhibition "Vestuario cinematográfico: La sombra de la ley". Goya 2019 to the best costume design. From March 30 to May 5 (Tomás Ortuño Street)

.- Hall Aula CAM: Exhibition of posters of the short films finalists of the festival. Until April 7.