The VI Edition of Madrid Film Festival concludes successfully

Once the VI edition of Madrid De Cine- Spanish Film Screenings has closed this week, a market whose objective is the international sale and promotion of Spanish cinema, FAPAE congratulates itself on the success of the call.

The Federation of Associations of Spanish Audiovisual Producers (FAPAE) has shown its satisfaction with the success of the call for the VI edition of Madrid De Cine- Spanish Film Screenings, an event organized by Spanish producers that for Spanish sellers, film buyers and the international press has become an essential event in the market calendar.

In Madrid de Cine, international buyers watch, for three days, Spanish films in the Princesa cinemas; Sales agents who wish to do so have a stand for exclusive use, located in a preferential area at the Meliá Princesa Hotel, venue of the event, where there are also tables for shared use for the rest of the participants, as well as a video library so that buyers can watch new Spanish films and catalogues.

27 titles available to buyers

To the VI edition of Madrid de Cine, which was sponsored by director Fernando Trueba,
75 companies from 29 countries have attended and 47 films have participated in the Screenings. The most viewed films have been There will be no peace for the wicked, Heroes, Don't be afraid, 18 meals, Blackthorn y 3 meters above the sky.

A total of 217 titles, 79 more than in the previous edition, were available to buyers in the video library, in which 96 viewings were made. The most requested films have been 3 meters above the sky, Returns, An almost perfect world, What is a bear for?, Flamenco, Flamenco, Miss Tacuarembó y Don't call it love, call it X.

21 international media (newspapers, magazines, radio and television) attended from the United Kingdom, France, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Greece and correspondents from the US, Central America and Latin America. The international press conducted more than 170 interviews with actors, directors and producers of 15 Spanish films. The films that have aroused the greatest interest among the international press have been Blackthorn, where its director Mateo Gil has been interviewed, Boy and Rita to Fernando Trueba, paper birds to Emilio Aragón and Lluís Homar and sad trumpet ballad to Álex de la Iglesia.

Parallel activities

In this VI Madrid edition of Cine-Spanish Film Screenings, the now usual Working Breakfast was held with the national and international press. Pedro Pérez (President of FAPAE), Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson (President of AEC) and Fernando Trueba (Director who sponsored this edition) appeared before the media on Monday the 20th at the Meliá Princesa Hotel. In it, the winner of the “2011 FAPAE Award for the Spanish film with the greatest international impact” was announced, which is awarded through the direct vote of the FAPAE member associations, and which went to Cell 211, produced by Vaca Films Studio, Morena Films, Telecinco Cinema, Graphic Testimonio A.I.E. and La Fabrique 2. This award aims to recognize and disseminate the work that Spanish producers carry out internationally. The award was presented by Fernando Trueba to Emma Lustres, from Vaca Films, at the Spanish Film Festival.

In addition to the Award ruling, the working breakfast served to publicize the data on Spanish cinema in the international market in 2010. Spanish films grossed 90 million euros in theaters abroad, and were seen by 16.3 million spectators, while the gross in national cinemas was 80.27 million euros and 12.9 million spectators.

Satisfactory balance

Film Factory, a company created by Vicente Canales six months ago, has sold all the rights to the film Cousins to the Japanese distributor Only Hearts, as well as the theatrical release rights to Wiesner Distribution (Puerto Rico). On the other hand, he has several open negotiations with the same film in Germany, Hungary and Latin America.

18 foods, produced by Tic Tac Producciones and Zircozine, whose international sales are handled by Cinema Republic, will be released in theaters in Switzerland (through Columbus) and Taiwan (Cineplex). Likewise, it is in negotiations with Russia, Hungary, France and Italy.

Marina Fuentes (Six Sales) confirms sales of Blackthorn, directed by Mateo Gil and very well received at the Tribeca Festival, to Japan, the United Kingdom and Romania. Fuentes also confirms the feature film Heroes for Romania and the documentary José and Pilar for Finland.

There have also been negotiations with several European territories to 23 F, produced by La Zona Films and while you sleep, directed by Jaume Balagueró and produced by Filmax, for certain Latin American territories pending sales.

a chinese tale, by Castafiore, Tornasol Films and Aliwood Mediterráneo Producciones, released in Spanish theaters last weekend, has closed its distribution in Puerto Rico through Wiesner Distribution.

Venevisión has acquired, for distribution on television and video, three titles from the company Vértice: One more hour in the Canary Islands, Affinities y Returns. Likewise, Vértice confirms that it is negotiating for different territories Automaton y Don't call it love, call it X.

In addition, Urban Films confirms the negotiation, for various European territories such as Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece and France, of feature films The wooden god y the shadow of the sun and the Czech television Ceskà Televize is in negotiation for several Spanish titles.

For Spanish sellers, Madrid de Cine continues to be an essential event on the calendar of international film buyers.