2018 Short Film Week
20 years of shorts
The Short Film Week becomes the big screen for short films in the Community of Madrid. It began its journey in 1999 as a Short Film Showcase subsidized by the Community of Madrid. Two decades have passed and in this time the show has become a festival and a prominent event for the dissemination of shorter films. It has grown little by little, always trying to meet two fundamental objectives: the promotion of short films to the general public and being a professional meeting point for the sector. The figures speak for themselves: in 2018, 65 municipalities participated and the birth in 2017 of the Professional Short Film Forum has been the culmination of a process of introducing professional activities over time.
The Short Film Week consists of three fundamental axes:
- The projections that have as central point the official section but where special sessions are also included.
- Training activities, an essential element of the Week through workshops and meetings with great professionals who explain the keys to their work.
- The impulse to meet the sector through the Professional Forum of the Short Film created in 2017 in collaboration with the ECAM (School of Cinematography and Audiovisual of the Community of Madrid.
20 years promoting the short film
The last edition of the Week of the Short Film of the Community of Madrid took place from 9 to 15 in April. He commemorated his 20 years of trajectory with activities and special events in memory of these two decades of talent promotion and the effort of the filmmakers of the short film. Under the title 20 years to celebrate 26 Goya Awards, The contest presented a tour of the short films, subsidized by the Community of Madrid in different editions, which have obtained Goya awards in the categories of Best Fiction, Animation and Documentary Short Film.
On the other hand, within the program of the contest the 2º Professional Short Film Forum on April 13 and 14, in which producers, distributors, actors, directors and professionals gathered for meetings, presentations and activities to encourage new projects, collaborations and productions.
Images Goya Awards
Tribute to Eduardo Chapero-Jackson
This year's Short Film Week paid tribute to Eduardo Chapero-Jackson, director and scriptwriter of cult Spanish cinema. On Friday, April 13, at 22 p.m. at the Cine Estudio del Círculo de Bellas Artes. The director of the short film trilogy Backlight (made of Contracuerpo, Alumbramiento and The End) was awarded with this work in 150 festivals around the world and had a nomination to the Goya in 2006.
Chapero-Jackson also received the Best New Director nomination in the Goya 2012 for his film Verb, and achieved a third nomination in 2013 with his first documentary The subtle worlds.
