The La Laguna International Historical Film Festival opens registration of projects

The La Laguna International Historical Film Festival takes another step in its consolidation by recovering the competitive sections of feature films and documentaries, whose winners will receive the 'Witness of History 2018' awards.

He La Laguna International Historical Film Festival (WHISTLE) faces its third edition with the challenge of recovering and consolidating the City of Los Adelantados in the cinematographic panorama dedicated to this audiovisual genre. Cinema, series, conferences, talks and video games with historical themes will once again take over the streets of La Laguna.

The City Council of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, through the Department of Historical Heritage, Festeam Communications and Events, and with the participation of the Government of the Canary Islands through the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage, launch their particular Time Machine so that the city becomes an open scenario where fiction, history and reality go hand in hand. The appointment will be between October 31 and November 4.

As a great novelty for this edition, the two competitive sections, one for feature films and one for documentaries. Under the generic title Witness to History 2018, the winners of each of the sections will be eligible for a prize of 1,000 euros.

The registration period for participants in Fichla is now open and will close on September 30. Once the material is received and viewed, the organization will select a total of 6 projects per section.

In order to be part of the official sections of the contest, it is necessary to meet the following requirements: fill out the form enabled on the event website (www.fichla.com) and provide a link to view the project. The rest of the material must be sent by email to this email: production@fichla.com

Furthermore, according to the rules available on the website, productions that have not previously been released in Spain in public theaters or on television may be submitted to both modalities.

The jury will be made up of prestigious personalities with extensive experience in the sector.

The screenings of the selected films will take place at the Aguere Multiplexes. Each film will have two showings throughout the four days of the festival. Dates will be made public once all materials have been received.

The Time Machine

This year, the retrospective part, The Time Machine, will be dedicated to 50th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King, a historical fact on which the different screenings will focus, as well as the planned talks, conferences and round tables. The final program with times and rooms will be published on the event's official channels.

Likewise, and after the success achieved in last year's exhibition with the introduction of historical video games as part of this festival, this type of format will also be accommodated in this edition with the aim of bringing younger audiences closer to this film genre.

This special section, dedicated to video games and television series, will also have the recognition of the jury, which will award the best in each category, the sculptural work Witness of History, created explicitly for this event in 2005 by the sculptor Román Hernández González.