SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 27 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Isla Calavera Canary Island Fantastic Film Festival, which closes nine days of programming this Saturday, has announced the winning films of its fifth edition. ‘Jacinto’, by Javi Camino, stands out as Best Film “for its vocation to create an icon of Spanish terror in its use of punk poetics, contrasting deep Galicia with modern”. The other great winner of the Festival has been ‘La pasajera’, by Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez.
The film has achieved recognition for its protagonists, through the ‘Jack Taylor’ Award for Best Actor for Ramiro Blas, “for creating a character with many edges, an endearing loser of Cañí Spain, simple, charismatic and contradictory”. The Best Actress Award has gone to Paula Gallego, “for throwing herself into the abyss to inhabit all the emotions to which the character leads”. In addition, ‘La pasajera’ adds the Isla Calavera Festival Audience Award for Best Feature Film.
The Isla Calavera Award for Best Direction went to James Ashcroft for the crude thriller ‘Coming Home in the Dark’, “for its ability to catch the viewer from the first moment, maintaining the psychological tension of the characters without falling into excesses, nor common places “. Marc Fouchard has won the Isla Calavera Award for Best Screenplay for ‘Out of this world (Hors du monde)’, “for his brave foray into the dark areas of the soul through a love story that falls into immorality and makes the public understands it. “
Within the Official Section for Short Films, the winning title was ‘A few beasts’, by Daniel Calavera, “because of the originality of its premise, the risk in the form, its commitment to the distinctive value of humor within the genre and its no less brilliant execution. ” ‘Under the ice’, by Álvaro Rodríguez Areny, received a special mention from the Jury “for the production design and photography that contribute to an effective narrative”.
PUBLIC AWARDS
The winners of the V Canary Island Fantastic Film Festival Calavera is completed with the prizes that the spectators who have seen the films in competition grant through their votes. Along with the aforementioned audience award for Best Feature Film for ‘La pasajera’, the audience award for Best Short Film went to ‘Night breakers’, by Gabriel Campoy and Guillem Lafoz.
The reading of the ruling has been presented this Saturday at Multicines Tenerife, the Festival’s screening venue, which celebrates the closing ceremony tonight, in which, in addition to the delivery of the awards, Víctor Matellano will go on stage to collect the Prize Isla Calavera to the Diffusion of Fantastic, and Luis Adern, to receive the Isla Calavera Fantástico Social Award, an award that recognizes the work of personalities or groups that use cinema as a tool to transform society.
In addition, the Festival will pay tribute to Narciso ‘Chicho’ Ibáñez Serrador, creator of cult films of fantasy genre cinema such as ‘Who can kill a child?’ and ‘The residence’, and responsible for popularizing genre cinema in Spain, through his ‘Stories to not sleep’ and the cycles of ‘My favorite terrors’. Thus, a theater at Multicines Tenerife will from now on receive the name of the influential author and popularizer of genre cinema. His son, the filmmaker Alejandro Ibáñez, the soul behind the remake of ‘Stories to not sleep’ that triumphs on Amazon Prime and has been seen on the big screen in Calavera Island, received this recognition.
The Jury of the Official Section of Feature Films in Competition of the fifth edition of the Isla Calavera Fantastic Film Festival of the Canary Islands has been this year composed of the professor of Audiovisual Communication of the University of La Laguna David Fuentefría (as president), the director of cinema Javier Fernández-Caldas, Ana Patricia Correa (art director and producer) and actress Aïda Ballmann. The Jury of the Official Section for Short Films in Competition made up: Antonio Hernández, from the Gáldar International Film Festival (as president), the filmmaker Manuel Peña, the film producer Enrica Roberta Martino and the screenwriter Jorge Galván.
