2023-05-20 08:27:55
He Fantastic Film Festival of the Canary Islands City of La Laguna Isla Calavera, which will celebrate its seventh edition from November 10 to 19, has opened the film registration period. Directors, producers and distributors may submit their work until October 7, 2023, the closing date of the call for all categories. The owners of the works are called to present their short and feature films of any nationality, framed in the fantastic genre (horror, science fiction, fantasy, thriller…), in the fiction and documentary modalities, both real image and animation.
The selected works will form part of the program that will be displayed at Multicines Tenerife, the venue for projections of the Isla Calavera Festival.
New “Deborah Nadoolman Landis” Award for Best Costume Design
The Jury of the Official Section of the contest will award the Isla Calavera awards for Best Short Film, Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, “Jack Taylor” Award for Best Actor, “Colin Arthur” Award for Best Special Effects and a new award, the “Deborah Nadoolman Landis” Award for Best Costume Design. The Festival incorporates this category into the list of winners after the costume designer’s visit to the last edition of the contest, who, when receiving the Isla Calavera de Honor 2022 Award, thanked the visibility given to this fundamental profession in the film industry and especially in the fantastic genre. The artist, nominated for an Oscar and responsible for the iconic costumes of Indiana Jones, has assured that she feels very honored with the name of the award.
The members of the Jury will also consider the granting of the “Fantástico Solidario” Award for the Best Short Film with solidarity and/or civic content. Likewise, there will be two audience awards for Best Short Film and Best Feature Film, which will be decided by the audience.
The complete bases of the call and all the information on the procedure to present the materials are available on the web www.festivalislacalavera.com. Titles with a production date after January 1, 2022, which have not been commercially released in Spanish exhibition halls, on television or video-on-demand platforms, are accepted. The maximum duration of the short films is 20 minutes.
Registrations can be made through digital platforms Festhome y Film freeway.
The Festival is in the middle of the programming process and the selection committee is already working on the viewings of the titles that will make up the next edition of Isla Calavera.
About the Isla Calavera Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival
Organized by the Charlas de Cine Cultural Association, the Isla Calavera Cultural Association, Multicines Tenerife and the specialized publication TumbaAbierta.com, sponsored by the La Laguna City Council, through the Department of Culture, the Cabildo de Tenerife, the Instituto Canario Cultural Development, Canary Islands Film and Tenerife Film Commission; and the collaboration of the University of La Laguna, among other public and private entities, the Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival Ciudad de La Laguna Isla Calavera was born in 2017 and in its six years of existence it has achieved an important national impact and is already considered as one of the five most relevant fantastic film festivals in the country.
In the international arena, it has also become one of the events to take into account, thanks to the participation of such relevant figures as John Landis, Deborah Nadoolman, Sarah Douglas, Rick Baker, Caroline Munro, David Naughton, Lamberto Bava, Enzo G. Castellari, Mick Garris, Neil Marshall, Charlotte Kirk, Nicholas Rowe, Colin Arthur or Jack Taylor. Other guests who have visited Tenerife within the framework of the Isla Calavera Festival and who have put the event on the map of film encounters are Belén Rueda, Álex de la Iglesia, Paco Plaza, Carolina Bang, Paco Cabezas, Víctor Matellano, Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Eugenio Mira or Lola Dueñas, among others.
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