The filmmaker Lluís Escartín will receive the Márgenes Special Award

The award ceremony will take place on December 1 during the opening ceremony of the VI Márgenes Festival at La Casa Encendida in Madrid.

Next Thursday, December 1, filmmaker Lluís Escartín will receive the Márgenes Special Award for independent cinema in recognition of his professional career and his fundamental contribution to the most restless part of Spanish cinematography. The delivery will take place within the framework of the inauguration of the VI Márgenes Festival.

Walking photographer and film poet, Lluís Escartín's biography could be measured in the kilometers he has traveled with his camera to record his experiences and his extremely poetic and personal vision of the world.

Camera in hand, in 1986 he emigrated from Barcelona towards Europe. He resides in Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin. Two years later he arrives in New York. There, in 1989, he exhibited his photos for the first time under the title Perpetual Movement. At the Anthology Film Archive he discovers American experimental cinema and meets Jonas Mekas, an encounter that leads him to change his camera for a video camera and, camera in hand, he dedicates himself to traveling through deserts, jungles and other desolate places.

His work, which has been shown at numerous Spanish and international film festivals and museums, moves between experimental and documentary genres while transgressing the canons established for each of them. A composition without an apparent score, but with an almost painful sensitivity and honesty. Subjective and immediate films that suggest and evoke instead of explaining or instructing, making visible what society stubbornly makes invisible.

On the occasion of the presentation of this award, the Márgenes Festival will dedicate a free online retrospective to Lluís Escartín. Their works can be seen in streaming, through the official website of the contest, between December 11 and 31. Furthermore, next December 16, La Casa Encendida in Madrid will preview a work in progress of the Catalan filmmaker's latest film, The (without) meaning of life.

The Márgenes Award for Independent Cinema was born in 2012 to recognize the talent, quality and diversity of some of the most significant creators of the most independent part of our cinematography.
The award has been given successively to Luis Miñarro, Basilio Martín Patino, Gonzalo Suárez and Emma Suárez.

The 6th edition of the Márgenes online cinema Festival, dedicated to new Ibero-American cinematographic realities, will be held between December 1 and 31. The 13 selected films can be seen in theaters in Spain, Mexico, Chile and Uruguay, as well as in free streaming, between December 11 and 31. The Official Section is made up of 13 titles that represent the most independent part of contemporary Ibero-American audiovisual creation: attention, by Raquel Marques and María Zafra; Artificial Generation, by Federico Pintos; Stories of two who dreamed, by Andrea Bussmann and Nicolás Pereda; The solengo, by Alexio Rigo de Righi and Matthew Zoppis; Misfits, by Kikol Grau; The letters, by Pablo Chavarría Gutiérrez; No cow on the ice, by Eloy Domínguez Serén; Panke, by Alejo Franzetti; Parable of the return, by Juan Soto; During the ride, from Irati Gorostidi Agirretxe; Motherboard, by Bruno Varela; Santa Teresa & otras historias, by Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias; and I believe it, Author Terrorism.