IV Andalusian Audiovisual Exhibition

The Assembly Hall of the Rectorate of the University of Malaga houses an exhibition that will include 46 Andalusian short films and 10 long films.

Until May 17, every Monday, the Assembly Hall of the Rectorate of the University of Malaga will host the IV Andalusian Audiovisual Exhibition in which 46 Andalusian short films and 10 feature films will be screened on this occasion. All of these works have in common the quality of the productions, their Andalusian origin and the difficulty of finding them in conventional film circuits.

The presentation of the exhibition was attended by May Silva, director of the Audiovisual Foundation of Andalusia, María Isabel Calero, vice-rector of Culture and Institutional Relations, and Sara Robles, director of the Secretariat of Culture. The Vice-Rector for Culture referred to the importance for the University of Malaga in general and for its Vice-Rectorate, in particular, of everything that has to do with audiovisual matters. “It is a crucial commitment of the University of Malaga that from the Vice-Rector's Office we try to reinforce with activities such as this exhibition, the audiovisual campus or Fancine itself,” said María Isabel Calero.

May Silva, for her part, focused on the importance of these samples so that Andalusians know the work that is done in their land. “We began to create catalogs of Andalusian audiovisual productions to present them in the major world cinema and television markets, where they tend to be well received, while the paradox arose that many of these works were unknown to the Andalusian public itself,” explained the person in charge of the AVA Foundation, who continued recalling the genesis of these exhibitions: “For this reason we tried to find a channel to bring Andalusians closer to the productions that are made in their land and we found it with the Universities, something that is especially satisfactory for us because it brings us closer to a young audience that is especially receptive to audiovisual productions.”

Las muestras comenzaron en las universidades de Sevilla y Málaga y con el tiempo se han ido extendiendo a las de Córdoba, Cádiz y, a partir de esta año, a la Universidad de Granada. La IV edición traerá al Salón de Actos de la UMA un total de 10 largometrajes y 46 cortometrajes de todos los estilos y géneros, pero “con la garantía de un alto nivel de calidad en la producción”, según la valoración de May Silva quién animó a todos los universitarios y malagueños a “quitarse los prejuicios y acudir a ver unos productos de mucha calidad, realizados en nuestra tierra, con directores, técnicos y actores andaluces y que, en muchos casos, a causa de las políticas de las distribuidoras no tienen cabida en los circuitos comerciales propios, aunque se estrenen con éxito en otros países”.