Professional Audiovisual Meeting in Cantabria

The Buñuel Institute (SGAE) and the Comillas Foundation promote this meeting, which, with the title of “Prima Opera”, brings together from May 25 to 27 in quotes to prominent professionals to treat the circumstances of the new audiovisual authors.

The Buñuel Institute (of the General Society of Authors and Editors) and the Comillas Foundation promotes, as of today until Friday 27, a new professional meeting of audiovisual creators at the International Center for Higher Studies of Spanish (Comillas, Cantabria). María Teresa Noceda (Mayor of Comillas), Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón (president of the Buñuel Institute), Carlos Picros (director of Icaa, Ministry of Culture) and Ignacio Gavira (director of the Comillas Foundation) inaugurate this Wednesday, May 25 (18:00 hours), a sectoral call that, under the title of Prima Opera: The integration of the new authors in the film industry will Young and talented, with one or two feature films released in Spanish rooms, to discuss their circumstances.

With the delicate situation of the cultural and audiovisual industry in Europe, the new directors and screenwriters usually work on tight budgets, looking for alternative financing forms, while traditional channels of distribution and exhibition of their works do not respond to their rhythm of creation. On the other hand, television and the Internet are windows to the public that do not always end up. On this scenario the debate will focus on the Meeting of Comillas.

The Opera Prima Meeting: the integration of the new authors in the film industry proposes various conferences and round tables led by prestigious professionals in the sector. Thus, they will take the floor Enrique González Macho (president of the Cinema Academy), Paolo Vasile (CEO of Mediaset in Spain), Gerardo Herrero (president of Tornasol Films), Juan Gordon (producer of Morena Films), Eva Cebrián (director of the film area in TVE), Bertha Navarro (producer and coordinator of the Laboratory for Laboratory for Laboratory for Latin America) Pradans (Play Televisión Communication Director) and Rafael Linares (Professor of Audiovisual Communication at the Rey Juan Carlos University). Among the participants, new generation recognized filmmakers, such as Eduardo Chapero-Jackson, Tina Olivares, Alfonso Zarauza, Max Lemcke, Amancay Tapia or the Álvaro Pastor-Antonio Naharro binomial, among many other arrivals from all over Spain.

Both will address and discuss issues related to the methods of production, financing, links with television, promotion and advertising, presence in festivals, and distribution in the current scenario (of the Internet rooms). After tomorrow's inauguration, the days will run until Friday 27.