The festival's cross-cutting project "Gender to Gender" is beginning to gain momentum with several initiatives that will culminate in industry activities.
In recent years, the Festival has carried out statistical control of the works registered and selected in favor of an advance towards equity, an awareness that is projected into the programming in most of the sections, up to the election of juries, speakers and participants of parallel activities. To reinforce this purpose, the alliances have been maintained and expanded with one of the leading entities such as Dones Visuals, which will be present at the Professional Conferences. This translates, among other things, into evaluating feature film projects from its members in order to choose one for the final selection of the pitching session and in a chat with colleagues from the world of cinema.
On November 9 at 6pm in collaboration with Dones Visuals we will hold a roundtable discussion with professionals from the film industry that will discuss the situation of equity that we experience in genre cinema and specifically in horror. The talk will feature high-profile speakers such as the Argentine distributor Tanu; the director of the Macabro Festival, Edna Campos; the director and screenwriter awarded the Melies D'Argent, Mireia Noguera; and the representative of Dones Visuals and producer Ainhoa Bolaños Alonso. The event will be offered online on our Terrormolins TV channel and will be open to public participation. (link to the event)
In this same line of action, it should be remembered that this 2021, the short film commission closed an agreement with the #AccióCurts de Dones Visuals project through which those finalist genre projects will be presented at the Festival. However, last April, the article by short film programmer Silvia García Palacios was published on her page (see link) as an advance of what has followed and will continue to take shape.
Always with the intention of analyzing the current situation of genre cinema with a new perspective and opening up avenues for production and viewing, the Festival does not miss the opportunity to be part of the change.