Expresion en Corto International Film Festival
Date: Thursday, November 29
Topic: Events
The Expresión en Corto International Film Festival is an annual international film festival, held since 1997 during final week of July in the cities of San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.
As a state-sponsored, non-profit organization and cultural event that does not charge admission to its viewing audience, the festival estimates an attendance of over 77,000 total audience members from more than 72 participating countries. It presents a variety of films and activities for free.
Venues
More than 400 films are screened from 10am until 4am each day in 16 venues, which include such unusual locations as: the Jardín Principal (main square) of San Miguel de Allende; the classical open-air staircase of the University of Guanajuato; the subterranean streets and tunnels beneath the city of Guanajuato where underground film is screened; as well as horror films in the infamous Museum of the Mummies of Guanajuato and both municipal graveyards (panteónes). There are also screenings in more conventional spaces such as Teatro Angela Peralta (SMA), Centro Cultural Ignacio Ramirez - El Nigromante (SMA), the Teatro Santa Ana (SMA), Hotel Villa Jacaranda (SMA), Galería Kunsthaus Santa Fe (SMA), the Auditorio del Estado (GTO) and the Teatro Principal (GTO).
International Competition & International Pitching Market
The international competition is the largest in Mexico, with films competing in a variety of categories, as well as an assortment of workshops, conferences, Women in Film and Television luncheons and tributes to both Mexican and international A-list filmmakers who are in attendance.
The festival hosts an annual International Pitching Market, bringing together international producers, distributors and diverse film financing institutions from around the world who are interested in participating in co-productions with the top 10 Mexican feature film and documentary projects currently in development.
Spotlight Countries
Each year, the festival designates a guest country of honor and presents the best of that country’s cinema. In previous years Canada, Spain, Germany, Brazil and France have been selected. For the fesival's 10th anniversary in 2007, the United States was invited as the guest country with participation of such U.S. film institutions as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Film Institute, Museum of Modern Art, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Texas Archive of the Moving Image, Frameline, Outfest, MIX NYC, South by Southwest, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Sundance Institute and the University of Southern California and the University of Texas at Austin film departments.
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