The Malaga Film Festival awards three ESCAC Films productions

Part of the team of the collective film <i> La filla d’algú</i>, awarded with the Movistar+ Award to the Best Film in the ZonaZine section.
Part of the team of the collective film La filla d’algú, awarded with the Movistar+ Award to the Best Film in the ZonaZine section.
Culture
(26/03/2019)

Once more, the University School of Cinema and Visual Communication of Catalonia (ESCAC) -affiliated at the University of Barcelona- received awards in the Malaga Film Festival, which ended on Sunday. The Festival, which this year reached its 22nd edition, awarded three out of the four submitted productions by ESCAC Films.

Part of the team of the collective film <i> La filla d’algú</i>, awarded with the Movistar+ Award to the Best Film in the ZonaZine section.
Part of the team of the collective film La filla d’algú, awarded with the Movistar+ Award to the Best Film in the ZonaZine section.
Culture
26/03/2019

Once more, the University School of Cinema and Visual Communication of Catalonia (ESCAC) -affiliated at the University of Barcelona- received awards in the Malaga Film Festival, which ended on Sunday. The Festival, which this year reached its 22nd edition, awarded three out of the four submitted productions by ESCAC Films.

The film La filla dʼalgú, carried out by students of the School, got the Movistar+ Award to the Best Film in the ZonaZine section. The award honors “the surprising film directed by the eleven graduates in film direction of the XX Promotion”. Marcel Alcántara, Júlia De Paz Solvas, Sara Fantova, Guillem Gallego, Celia Giraldo, Alejandro Marín, Valentin Moulias, Gerard Vidal, Pol Vidal, Enric Vilageliu and Carlos Villafaina have worked on this film that follows the steps of a pregnant woman, during 24 hours, who will lose control of her life: her father will disappear leaving a story on corruption, while she will try to find him to get answers. The audience and the press valued the risk of the proposal and the work of Aina Clotet, main character of the film, who won the Biznaga de Plata to the Best Acress.

Regarding short-films, Benidorm 2017, by the graduated Claudia Costafreda, won the Award to Best Fiction Short-Film in the Official Section and the Best Actress was given to Yolanda Ramos. In the official section of Malaga Short-films, Nacho no conduce, by the graduated students Alejandro Marín, received the Award to Best Fiction Short-film.

Wide representation of ESCAC talent

Apart from these three productions, ESCAC was represented at the Malaga Festival with other projects directed and produced by graduates from the school. Ojos Negros, with Andrés Mellinas as executive producer, won the Silver Visnada to the Best Spanish Film in ZonaZine. The actor Quim Gutiérrez was awarded the Biznaga de Plata to the Best Actor for Litus, by the graduate Dani de la Orden. Other films that were seen in the official section of short-films were Sin Pausa, by the graduate José Cachón (and produced by ESCAC Films); What is love, by Paco Caballero, and Grbavica, by Manel Ragal, both alumni from the Masterʼs degree on Film Direction. The ZonaZine section featured the films El increíble finde menguante, the prima opera by the alumni Jon Mikel Caballero, with the graduate Tània Fonseca as photography director of the film.