Ronda hosts the International Scientific Film Biennial

In this edition, there have been 138 films registered in the international competition that come from different countries around the world.

The Spanish Association of Scientific Film and Image, in collaboration with the Ronda City Council, the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology FECYT and the Unicaja Ronda Foundation, are organizing the International Scientific Film Biennial this week.

These days the Convent of Santo Domingo presents a complete program around the images and sounds of science and technology in the 21st century.

BICC Ronda 2014 has taken advantage of the current academic and scientific research networks, associates and collaborators of the RedCLARA Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks to present a new festival proposal, which gives greater visibility and global presence to the International Competition, with remote projections from venues in Latin America.

The finalist works will be projected both in the city of Ronda and in the participating venues in institutions as dispersed as the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) of Madrid, the University of Córdoba (UCO) and the Palacio de Quintanar-Universidad de Valladolid (UVa) Campus Segovia, and the University of Seville, through RedIRIS in Spain; or the University of Cuenca, Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil (UCSG) and Salesian Polytechnic University (UPS) through the CEDIA Network in Ecuador; and the Center for Research in Engineering and Applied Sciences (CIICAp) of the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos through the CUDI Network in Mexico.

130 films registered

In this edition, there have been 138 films registered in the international competition that come from different countries around the world (such as Argentina, Germany, Brazil, Chile, China, Spain, USA, France, Italy, Pakistan, Portugal, United Kingdom, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Switzerland or Tunisia).

A pre-jury panel made up of 25 scientific research and dissemination professionals, located in Europe and Latin America, selected the 30 finalist audiovisual works after significant virtual and remote evaluation and assessment work.

On November 28 in the city of Ronda, the International Jury made up of personalities dedicated to audiovisual and scientific dissemination in the world will choose the winners of the 27th edition of the Biennial. The Jury is made up of Francisco García García, Professor of Audiovisual Communication at the Complutense University (Madrid) and president of ASECIC, by Pilar Álvarez-Lazo, director and representative of the UNESCO Multi-Country Office for Central America and Mexico in San José, Costa Rica; Alessandro Griffini, president of IAMS (Italy); Juan Pablo Carvallo, director of CEDIA and member of the University of Cuenca, headquarters of the Biennial in Ecuador; Sergio González Acosta, coordinator of CINE 100 (Argentina); Florencio Utreras Díaz, executive director of RedCLARA (Chile); Luis Miguel Rodríguez, audiovisual and multimedia creative (Brazil); Teresa Cruz, director of the DESCUBRE Foundation (Spain); Manuela Gutiérrez Tábara, director of the COM_4 production company and vice president of ASECIC, and Rogelio Sánchez Verdasco, CSIC technician and general secretary of ASECIC.

Trailers of the 30 documentaries finalists of the BICC 2014

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