Alcine, warms up for its 39th edition in Alcalá de Henares

The Alcalá de Henares Film Festival reaches its thirty-ninth edition between November 6 and 14, 2009 with a complete program of the best European and Spanish cinema. Kodak will organize a film creation workshop.

The Alcalá de Henares Film Festival, Alcine, opens its doors for another year and reaches its thirty-ninth edition with the already achieved objective of being a benchmark of quality and influence within the world of short films. The contest, which will take place between November 6 and 14, is organized for another year by the Alcalá de Henares City Council and the Community of Madrid and has the collaboration of entities such as Caja Madrid, the University of Alcalá, Kodak, Technicolor or the Cervantes Institute, with which the contest maintains a constant relationship (currently it travels two of the exhibitions launched by Alcine around the world).

As usual, the festival will have three competitive sections: the European Short Film Contest, the National Short Film Contest and Open Screen for New Directors, the last section that includes debut films by Spanish directors.

As every year, there will also be a special retrospective, this time dedicated to Nordic cinema under the name 24 Nordic Hours, a tour of culture in general and cinema in particular from Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

Film workshop

Likewise, and following Alcine's philosophy of integrating all the arts and activities that have parallels with cinema, a film workshop will take place together with the consolidated Kodak brand. Taught by prestigious cinematographers Randall J. Tack and Jesús Haro, students will have the opportunity to shoot a film with a 16 mm camera. Registration applications can be filled out and sent until October 1 on the website of the festival and in that of Kodak.

Finally, it is worth highlighting one of the most important bets of this edition of Alcine, thanks to the collaboration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This is the first market for Ibero-American short films, ShortLatino, which was created with the aim of disseminating and seeking a way to commercialize and exhibit short films from South America, Portugal and Spain. It will be the first to cover this, which will give Alcine a new commercial, promotional and business strengthening function, beyond the exhibition on the dates of the event.

The Madrid competition's support for the entire film circuit will be completed with a large retrospective dedicated to the work of Spanish producers, a key figure in the cinematographic field and who, however, tends to be, paradoxically, the least known group.