This summer, traveling cinema with the Academy and Gas Natural Fenosa

From July to September, the best Spanish cinema will be shown in theaters, squares, parks and beaches in ten locations.

Bring Spanish cinema, on the big screen and for free, to audiences far from big cities. This is the objective of the initiative that, promoted by Gas Natural Fenosa and the Film Academy, will take place this summer and that in its first edition will travel to ten locations in our geography and will screen eight recently produced Spanish films in theaters, squares, parks and beaches.

Jordi Garcia Tabernero, general director of Communication and Presidential Office of Gas Natural Fenosa, sponsor of the cycle; and Enrique González Macho, president of the Academy, have presented, at the entity's headquarters, this joint traveling film project, an event in which they have been supported by the actors and directors of some of the selected feature films such as Macarena García, Andrea Duro, Raúl Arévalo, Emilio Gavira, Mateo Gil and Enrique Gato.

This exhibition of Spanish cinema on the road was born with the objective of having continuity because the idea is to sow the meaning of watching cinema and integrate it as a daily activity in citizens. An adventure that, “at its core, is a love song for early cinema: that of the neighborhood movie theaters that introduced the men and women of the towns to the great titles of the time,” stressed González Macho, who recalled what happened in a Castilian town in the midst of the postwar period.

One Sunday in 1940, the “cinema van” arrives in a lost town. In a dilapidated building, the film screening is improvised Dr. Frankenstein. During the ninety minutes that the session lasts, the streets of the town remain lonely. Among the spectators are two little sisters, Isabel and Ana, the young protagonists of The spirit of the hive. "This anecdote also reflects the spirit of this initiative. The traveling cinema has not disappeared, there are still romantics who go to the municipalities of Spain to take cinema wherever it can be seen," added the president of the Academy, to whom the quote from The spirit of the hive served to remember the late Elías Querejeta, “the best producer in Europe.”

With the desire that the initiative “have the impact it deserves, and not only be repeated, but expanded because we have films to take to the entire geography,” González Macho stressed that, today, “being able to see a screening of traveling cinema in some towns that have lost their only cinema is a great success.”

Of snow white a Dying, passing through Blackthorn. Without destiny, Phantom promotion, Extraterrestrial, Carmina o resienta, The adventures of Tadeo Jones and The artist and the model. Summer cinema that nearly 10,000 people will be able to enjoy in sessions that will feature one of the pop icons of the seventh art, popcorn.

Patronage

In its commitment to contribute to cultural development, Gas Natural Fenosa supports this project under the sponsorship formula. "We support Spanish cinema because it reinforces the values of our brand. The benefit is mutual in this symbiosis of commercial brand and cultural activity through this solidarity, free and innovative initiative in which we escape from traditional theaters and take the films to capacities with capacity between 700 and 1,500 people," explained Jordi García Tabernero.

Actors and directors of the productions that make up the billboard of this first call for traveling cinema supported the series with their presence at the Academy, where Macarena García, Goya to the revelation actress for snow white, reiterated that this production was "one of the best gifts they have given me. It changed me as an actress and a person." At his side, Emilio Gavira indicated that Pablo Berger's second feature film was "different, something else. You just have to listen to those pasodobles and see the actors to realize it."

Two of the interpreters of Phantom Promotion, Andrea Duro and Raúl Arévalo, remembered how much fun they had during filming. "This is one of the films that I have always wanted to make because of its eighties spirit, because it reminded me of Michael J. Fox's films, of those stories that I rented at the video store in my neighborhood. I think Promotion... is a perfect story for this initiative," commented Raúl Arévalo.

For Mateo Gil, rescuing Butch Cassidy from the dead in the western Blackthorn. Without destiny "is another example of the madness and madness that, on a financial level, Spanish cinema is capable of. It means what we are capable of telling, not so much in terms of industrial profitability, but because we risk for the love of cinema, the public and the narrative." Finally, Enrique Gato, the father of Tadeo Jones, a character with whom he has been living for more than 13 years and about whom he is already preparing a second installment, confessed that everything that has happened with this animated hero "is far above everything we could dream of."