ALTERNATIVA ARRIVES IN LATIN AMERICA; PRESENTED AT GUADALAJARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The 40th edition of the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG) became the stage for the presentation to Latin America of the Alternativa Film Festival, which will consolidate a strategic alliance that seeks to strengthen the links between film and social change. Alternativa Film Festival is a global non-profit initiative [...]
HONESTLY, DENISSE GUERRERO: FICG40 THE ART BEHIND THE POP MEMORY
As part of its 40th edition, the Guadalajara International Film Festival reaffirmed its commitment to art as a space for freedom with the start of the Maguey Award activities. The Jesús Guerrero Galván Gallery, at the "Juan José Arreola" Jalisco State Public Library, hosted the opening of the Maguey Award, a [...]
FICGAMES PLAYTEST UNLOCKS ONE MORE LEVEL AND MAKES US PART OF THE GAME
With the inauguration of the Guadalajara Film Market, held on Saturday, June 7, the FICGames PlayTest was also presented. Despite being located in the subway lobby of the Conjunto Santander de Artes Escénicas, this space shone with the vibrant atmosphere created by the 10 video games gathered there. The circular stand in the center incited curiosity [...]
BETWEEN NERVOUSNESS AND EXPECTATION, THE SECOND EDITION OF PITCH FICGAMES GOES UP A NOTCH
In collaboration with UNIAT, the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG) presented the second edition of Pitch FICGames, which seeks to expose and support the talent of animators, screenwriters, programmers and other industry professionals, proposing itself as a factor of change to traditional forms of storytelling. Representatives of five projects [...]
FORTY EDITIONS, FOUR MAYAHUELES: A CONVERSATION BETWEEN GENERATIONS OF WOMEN WHO HAVE MADE CINEMA THEIR HOME
At FICG40, four women with Mayahuel de Plata met in one afternoon to share their authenticity with the public. From different trenches of filmmaking -acting, production, teaching and activism- these women did not speak from the podium, but from the heart. The panel began at the point where the two sides of the [...]
REFLECTING THE SEVENTH ART FROM THE BODY: PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK CINE SOMÁTICO AT FICG40
Cinema can be looked at from different fronts, among them that of the body, from which the British academic and psychotherapist Luke Hockley proposes an unconventional look at it with his book Somatic Cinema. The relationship between screen and body: a Jungian perspective. The book, co-published by the Faculty of Cinema, makes a [...]
TALENTS GUADALAJARA BEGINS ACTIVITIES AT THE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IN GUADALAJARA
In times of anger, love is a beehive... And with this theme embracing its seventeenth edition, Talents Guadalajara, part of Industry and Market of the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG), began its activities in which 43 selected participants and six projects that will learn, develop and strengthen their specialties [...]
FICG40: THE MAGIC OF STOP MOTION ARRIVES WITH EXHIBITIONS OF OS DEMÓNIOS DO MEU AVÔ AND SOY FRANKELDA
As part of the celebration of the 40th edition of the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG), the exhibitions "Os Demónios do Meu Avô" and "Soy Frankelda" were inaugurated to pay tribute to the first animated films, Portuguese and Mexican respectively, made in stop motion. On behalf of FICG40, Estrella Araiza, general director of the FICG, [...]
MEXICAN PRODUCERS ANNOUNCE THE CREATION OF THE MEXICAN FEDERATION OF FILM PRODUCERS AT FICG40
This June 7, FICG40 opened the doors of the Santander Performing Arts Ensemble to members of the film industry to officially announce a crucial development in Mexican cinema: the birth of the Mexican Federation of Film Producers. The call was attended by leading figures of the national industry such as Nicolás Celis, [...]
THE FLAMENCO GUITAR OF YERAI CORTÉS COMES TO GUADALAJARA WITH THE GALAS TO BENEFIT FICG40
As part of the 40th edition of the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG40), the Mexican premiere was held of the documentary La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés, debut film by director Antón Álvarez, who takes us through the universe of flamenco and the intimate life of Alicante-born guitarist Yerai Cortés. The film [...]