Avanca Film Festival 2011
Since its debut in 1997, the “International Meetings in Cinema,
Television, Vídeo and Multimédia – AVANCA ’11″ festival has steadily
grown in audience attendance and number of film submissions. Avanca has
also succeeded in becoming the largest audiovisuals workshop space in
Europe in the past 15 years.
Every year, cinema enthusiasts and professionals from all over the
world come to the small town of Avanca, Portugal, because the festival
summons them to share their work and their talent during several days of
intense discovery. The festival seeks to promote new innovative
audiovisual experiences and narrative techniques, ultimately leading to
technological development in the film industry.
Avanca promotes several workshops lead by various cinema
professionals from different countries, all the while hosting a film
competition featuring quality works that are screened in different
sessions over the course of the festival, and evaluated by an
international jury. The aim is to assemble professionals, students and
any general public interested in this form or art to bring quality
cinema works to Portugal from around the world. The majority of the
submissions come from Europe, yet each year the festival’s commitment to
diversity presents itself through different areas of the works
exhibited, ranging from the ideas, to the narrative and the design of
each of the films screened.
Avanca has submitted many of their award winning films to ÉCU in the
past, including Conto Do Vento, A Ria, A Ana, O Honen, and Desta Agua.
And this year, the festival, which will run from July 20th until July
24th, even extended an invitation to ÉCU’s Festival Manager Kädi Lokk to
serve on the festival’s jury board! Kädi will be bringing you updates
from the festival, so stay tuned !
You can find more information about the festival at their website: www.avanca.com/
