The Huelva Festival will celebrate present and future in its 50th edition

The 50th edition of Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival, which will be held in the Andalusian city between November 15 and 23, takes its first steps with the presentation of its poster, designed by illustrators and creators Sergio García and Lola Moral.

The director of the contest, Manuel H. Martin, has been in charge of presenting the poster for this next edition in an event led by the Spanish-Argentine actress Maria Botto which also had the presence of the mayor of Huelva and president of the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival Foundation, Pilar Miranda; the territorial delegate of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the Junta de Andalucía in Huelva, Teresa Herrera, and the president of the Provincial Council, David Toscano. H. Martin explained that "the Festival is enriched by this work by two top-level illustrators, recognized with numerous awards, in a year that will be very bright for all of us due to the 50 years of history of our contest." In this sense, he stated that the poster for this special year "continues with the bright path that we always want to give to the event, even more so in a year in which we claim the history, the past, but also the future of the Festival."

The advertising poster is the work of two authors: Sergio Garcia, National Illustration Award in 2012 and creator of covers for national and international media such as The New Yorker or New York Times, and Lola Moral, a creator who has participated in exhibition and museum projects in Washington, Frankfurt and other national enclaves. In it, the lighthouse is the protagonist, as a metaphor for light and movement, which can be seen in the cinematic representation of flamingos, birds typical of the Doñana environment. "A symbol that welcomes and guides sailors approaching land. A round trip across that immense sea that connects Spain with Latin America," notes the organization of the event. Under the lighthouse, there are two cinema teams that represent two different eras, 50 years of Festival, yesterday and today. One is from the mid-70s, the date on which the Huelva Festival was born. Another is current, with a director at the helm, “a tribute to the parity that has been worked for for decades.”

After the presentation of the poster, the premiere in Huelva of the documentary Marisol, call me Pepa by Blanca Torres, a screening that has had the presence of two of the producers of the work, Paco Ortiz and José Carlos de Isla. The work delves into the story of the child prodigy Marisol, who was immortalized almost daily, in an overexposure that ended up erasing the limits between the character and her own life. In this way, the documentary illuminates the images of this myth again, to rediscover the life path of Marisol as a child and teenager, and end up discovering the real Pepa Flores, the woman who was hiding behind her.