The objective of the 48x3 Marathon is that six teams, with a minimum of three and a maximum of five members, write a script, shoot and edit a short film, with a maximum duration of three minutes, credits not included.

The subject is chosen at random and for the three weekends, one for each part of the process, participants will have to show their creative talent, spontaneity, improvisation skills and mastery of production and postproduction.

Participants will have the support of a tutor, at all times, who will guide them throughout the process, resolve doubts and check that the competition rules are complied with.

Mafalda Entertainment together with the Cepaim Foundation present the exhibition; “New Girls 24 Hours” as part of a process of investigation and documentation into human trafficking, especially that of women and girls for sexual exploitation, designed to sensitise people and enhance public awareness.

It is an interactive exhibition (with training activities and educational guides) which has as its starting point the documentary of the same name denouncing this profitable "business". The director and documentary filmmaker Mabel Lozano and Commissioner Juan Nicholas have created this photographic exhibition with a selection of images taken while shooting internationally, entering the heart of this underground world, including testimony from the victims themselves as well as experts in the field.

• Espacio de Mujeres. Delegación Especial de Igualdad. Diputación de Almería. Plaza Marín, nº 1. Almería
• 2nd - 15th december 2015
• Monday - Friday | 10:00-14:00h
• 950 261 155 - 950 211 756

Film scenarios, has assembled a 167 participants and 907 photographic proposals, of which thirty finalists have been selected to take part in the exhibition this year.

This is a broad topic that allows people to photographically approach spaces and landscapes, both inside and out, from different perspectives, techniques, and conceptual and aesthetic styles and angles. Respecting this diversity, without excluding any style or trend has been one of the main premises in this selection whilst paying attention, however, to photographic quality, its own possibilities and ways of interpreting.

If the role of the jury is to recognize the work of its participants, making them part of it goes without saying.

We hope you enjoy.
Pepa Cobo
Teacher at Almería Art School Professor

As every year, during the City of Almería’s Campaign Against Gender Violence, the Competition "Adolescent Stares", an audio-visual short film competition, in which baccalaureate students of the La Salle Virgen del Mar school take part, is organized. This year, as a novelty, the short films will be cartoons. The students, coordinated by the professor of "Science for the Contemporary World", Mr. Antonio Galindo, will set up teams to design and edit short films designed, apart from the technical and creative work involved, to make the general public aware of the devastating effect that gender violence has on the victims, the family and society in general.

In this event, the competition finalists’ videos will be screened (including more than fifteen works of great quality, both for the messages and technically) and reward the winning team with a gift and a great opportunity to show their video in the award winners’ session, which is organized within the framework of the 13th International Short Film Festival 'Almería en Corto'.

DISABILITY TO THE FOREGROUND is a section of Almeria in Short to show the different skills that a particular group, with qualities which are not always visible, has. Such is the initiative of the City of Almeria and the Urban Plan who, with FEDER funding, have launched as a part of the “Inclusive Plan”, a project designed to improve, by means of training actions, the socio-economic conditions of people at risk of exclusion in the Old Quarter of the city.

The Association of People with Disabilities; Verdiblanca, is responsible for carrying out this project with four workshops audio-visual editing and video editing, production and acting direction and photography. Participants in these workshops have established working groups to create short films in which this part of town and disability are reflected. They all participate in the 2nd Short Film Competition 'Pedro Gallo', promoted by the city of Almeria.

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The International Short Film Festival 'Almería en Corto', in collaboration with the Institute of Almerían Studies will be organizing this interactive workshop in order to create areas for alternative audio-visual events and provide meeting places to promote historical video-graphic and aesthetics reflection.

If there is an art form linked to the novelist Michel Houellebecq (La Reunion, 1958) it is video art. It is not the only one, but it is the most representative. Throughout his writing career, video art has been either explicitly or implicitly present in his books and has also led to numerous "collateral" audio-visual works. This workshop intends to make them known and cross Houellebecq’s biography and bibliography through video art in particular and art in general. The writer, who lives seasonally in Vera (Almería) dedicated one of his major novels ("Possibility of an Island") to this province. Part of the movie of the same name was filmed here which, by way of a tribute, is also the name this workshop.

PROFESSOR: Federico Martínez Utrera
He has a Doctorate in Audio-Visual Communication, is a Post-graduate professor at the “Rey Juan Carlos University” (URJC) and teacher at the Next International Business School (Madrid). He was the editor of the book "Arraballebecq" and the theatre version of the same name, published by Libros del Innombrable (Books of the Nameless One) (Zaragoza, 2012) still to be released.

From 2nd to 4th December, 2015
Diputación de Almería | Edificio Alfareros

PROGRAMME:

Wednesday, 2nd December

• 11.00 am Inauguration.
  Video-art in Houellebecq: Dialogues with Belemuski.
  Extension of the Battlefield. Video-art. Cinema. Theatre.
• 12.00 pm Elementary particles. Video-art. Cinema. Theatre. Sculpture.
• 1.00 pm Lanzarote. Video-art. Music. White beach.
  Platform. Video-art. Theatre.

Thursday, 3rd December

• 11.00 am Possibility of an Island. Video-art. Film (short and long). Theatre.
  Performing Arts: multimedia dance. Performance. H.P. Lovecraft. Against the world, against life. Video-art.
• 1.00 pm. Renaissance and Poetry. Video-art. Masbedo and Houellebecq: Survive.
  Theatre. Public Enemies (Henry Levy). Video.

Friday, 4th December

• 11.00 am Houellebecq and Arrabal / Arraballebecq. Video-art. Photography. Theatre.
  Interventions / The world as a supermarket. The Map and the Territory. Video-art. Art. Submission.
• 1.00 pm Latest Movies: Near Death Experience, The Kidnapping of MH, The Gordji Affaire.
  Music: Human Presence. A video Plein été. Concert in Mexico. A song. An interview.

With only two films under his belt Berger (Bilbao, 1963) has become one of the most important and unclassifiable filmmakers of our country.

In the eighties, he directed the multi-award winning short film "Mamá (Mum)", to go on to study a Masters in New York, where he stayed on as a teacher for several years.

Can you imagine how, upon his return to Spain, he was able to launch a project like "Torremolinos 73" in which the stars are a couple that decides to shoot a home-made porn film back in the pre-democratic Spain? What would the reaction of a producer who read a script for a silent, black and white film about Snow White and dwarf bullfighters? ... The answer will be revealed in this talk.

Having direct contact, in an informal way, with artists and filmmakers in a key activity and, once again, the meeting point will be the Cyrano, a place of leisure and a cultural reference point.

Santiago Zannou, whose debut film “El Truco del Manco” (The One-Handed Man’s Trick) won the Goya for New Director, has subsequently led an interesting career in the world of film and advertising (he was behind the memorable Christmas Lottery commercial last year ). He will provide the keys to understand his work at a symposium in which short-film experts from the INCAA will also take part.

Through Twitter and the #tuitencorto hashtag, Twitter users can participate in this competition, which aims to reward the narrative talent of net-surfers and spread the celebration of the International Short Film Festival "Almería in Short".

The award will go to the tweet that best describes a famous film in 100 characters.

To enter the competition, the use of the Twitter hashtag #tuitencorto is compulsory, plus a hashtag related to the film with a description not to exceed 100 characters (excluding the hashtags).

The short tweet must be submitted written in Castilian, it must be original and unpublished (i.e. must not have appeared in any media or format) and must not previously have won any awards or runners-up prizes in any other national or international competition.

The winner will be announced at the closing ceremony of the 14th International Short Film Festival 'Almería in Short'.

Ever since she was young she has loved children and knew that she wanted to dedicate her life to them, fully. She is currently professor of music at EMMA, leisure and recreation monitor, children's make-up artist at Microteatro, Almeria and, for the second consecutive year, is participating in the International Short Film Festival "Almería in Short" running the face painting workshop.

Children’s Make-up Workshop.
This activity is intended for children to have fun, express their creativity and imagination and have a great time. In this smaller home workshop, they learn all the secrets behind the children’s make-up.

In a playful and fun way, the keys to the magical world of make-up will be explained. The participants will practice with simple types of make-up; wizards, fantasy, animals, princesses, superheroes, and so on.
They are the stars and the limit is in their imagination.

Every time, during the gestation of this film, someone had access to the script there always appeared an adjective used to describe it and that made me paddle even harder towards the honourable act of shooting it.

And the adjective was neither wonderful nor great, nor even that it might be a good movie. The adjective was necessary. Something I had not noticed and that has been at the helm of this ship.

At this historic moment, narrating the situation of thousands of people with their lives relegated to a second place by something as humanitarian as providing dignity to those who have borne them, it is something that all those involved in this film were motivated by far above making the film itself or the pleasure of shooting it.

Because along the way we have become familiar with anonymous cases that may well have been part of the story. And once again the adjective "necessary" appeared.
I invite you to share this need with us.

SYNOPSIS: Isabel and Mercedes are two middle-aged women born in a rural setting. Isabel has long since abandoned the maternal home to become one of many office workers in Madrid. This flight meant that her sister Mercedes had to take charge of a progressively worsening mother, which has been the source of all grudges for years. Meanwhile, it is Isabel’s job which is maintaining the economy in this unwritten pact.

DIRECCIÓN / DIRECTION Jesús Ponce
SCREENPLAY Jesús Ponce
PRODUCTION Kiko Medina, Pilar Crespo, Jesús Díaz y Mercedes Hoyo
CINEMATOGRAPHY David Barrio
EDITING Fernando Franco
SOUND Juan Cantón
MUSIC Juan Cantón
CAST Isabel Ampudia, Mercedes Hoyos, Darío Paso, Víctor Clavijo y Juan Carlos Sánchez

CONTACT: KMPC. Persona de contacto / POC: Kiko Medina
Tel. +34 670067890. E-mail: kiko@kmpc.es
Página Web: kmpc.es Facebook: facebook.com/kmpcsl

"La Madriguera (The Burrow) is the first film by 32 Historias Producciones. The production company was born in the city of Almeria, with the intention of producing films in and from Almeria, with local companies and workers. The recently filmed; The Burrow, was the first professional feature film to be shot entirely in Almeria, with a local producer and in which 90% of the workers are from Almeria. “For us the objective is clear; to produce quality films, both technically and artistically in Almeria, and with ever-increasing ambition, to export them all over the world”. The Burrow will begin its tour of festivals and will premiere in theatres next year, 2016. “Where better to start talking about The Burrow and the shooting than at a festival like “Almería in Short”, which we feel to be our own"

SYNOPSIS: Carlos is a writer suffering from PTSD. Faced with this situation, the publisher he works for decides to send Caterina, a young assistant, who will try to help her admired writer recover what it was that allowed him to write and, in the meantime, help her take her first steps as a writer. But inadvertently, the obsessive personality Carlos eventually puts her in a dangerous situation.

DIRECTION Kurro González
SCREENPLAY Kurro González y Francisco Conde
PRODUCTION Francisco Conde
CINEMATOGRAPHY Alberto Muñoz
ART DIRECTION Fernando Contreras
EDITING Pablo Mas y Kurro González
SOUND Leticia Argudo y Jorge Flor
MUSIC Luis Herrero
CAST Francisco Conde, Adriana Torrebejano, Cristina Castaño, Carlos Santos y Javier Mora

CONTACT: Productora 32 HISTORIAS PRODUCCIONES.
Persona de contacto: Francisco Conde
Tel. +34 605 01 22 35. E-mail: info@32historias.com
Página Web:32historias.com Facebook: facebook.com/32historias

The Cultural Association CineArte will present the activities planned for the year 2016 in the House of Cinema. Our main intention is to maintain and strengthen the relationship between creators and viewers in order to create, progressively more, our own film culture.

The first activity, which is open to all citizens, is the presentation of the exhibition "The Art of Scissors" of Lotte Reiniger. In it, we can see the brilliant career of the German artist in the art of animation, who, even in the twenties, had already honed the art and aesthetics of the genre to perfection.

One of his first works will also be shown; "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" (1926), considered the first animated feature film in history. His style is rooted in the shadow puppetry, whose potential is enhanced by this cinema technique.

Collaborating: The Goethe Institute Madrid and Cristina Calvache Wineries
Sunday 6th | 12.30 (am) | Casa del Cine (The House of Cinema) | Camino Romero, 13, Almería

A review dating from the first screenings in Almeria in 1896 to the achievements of our time. The most historically influential aspects in film production in the province as well as the most notable films of every decade and their locations. There will be graphics and photos to explain the history of film production in Almeria in a straightforward and entertaining way.

Personal Information:
Iván Zoido Salazar (Seville, 1978). He has a Degree in Political and Social Sciences by the University of Granada, he dedicated his postgraduate studies to the theme Cinema and Almeria and did his MBA project on Cinema and Tourism in Almeria. He also studied postgraduate research at the University of Jaén with the project Cinema and Public Policy under Franco. An approach towards the case of Almeria.

He has written books such as; Almeria de Cine (Cinema in Almería), for the Centre for Andalusian Studies; or the guidebooks; Almeria in Films, Seville in Films and Granada in Films with their own publishing company. He is currently cultural adviser for the company Bogaris, for the development of the new Torrecárdenas Shopping Centre.

The book chronicles the childhood and youth in film of Miguel Picazo, conceived from the accounts of personal experiences, between two towns in Jaén, Spain, where he was born and spent a period of his life; it was a time when he discovered his passion for cinema and, thanks to his background in films, allowed him to enter the newly created, prestigious “Institute for Cinematic Research and Experimentation (IIEC), which was quickly to become the reference point for the new Spanish film industry, competing with well-established and renowned figures in the world of communication, literature and film.

The author contextualizes this stage of the cinepile, Miguel Picazo between Cazorla and Peal, two mountain villages geographically besieged by the cultural isolation from the capital in three decisive moments in the life of Miguel Picazo: the Republic, the Civil War and the first post-Franco era.

Throughout the book he delves into how that love of film, together with the personal experiences of his childhood and youth, left their mark on what was later to become his concept of film, deeply marked by a very personal and, what was then, an innovative approach to cinema.

THE AUTHOR:
Ignacio Ortega is the author of several books on the history of film in Jaen and Almeria, as well as other teaching guides, due to his profession as a teacher, as; "Images in the Image workshop", "Cinema in the School" or "The Educational Use of the Images in Education". He also contributes with magazines such as "Journal of Education" and is a review writer for magazines such as "Cinema 2000" Diario Ideal or Diario Jaén.

He has a Degree in Visual and Auditory Imaging Science and is Professor of History at various centres in Barcelona, Jaen and Almeria, He is the Director of Culture at the Provincial Government of Almería and has organized events such as; "Encounters with Film Directors" in Jaen and Almería, which are still being held in said cities. He was recently appointed Director of the Cervantes Institute in Brazil, until his retirement.

Jimmy Barnatán (Santander, 1981) was just 16 began singing blues in New York, and has recently returned to play there. He played more than fifty concerts in his summer 2014 tour, many at renowned festivals such as the Hondarribia Blues Festival.

The singerfrom Cantabria has recorded a new album entitled "Motorclub" together with The Cocooners. It has been released by the Gaztelupeko Hotsak record company, which specializes in blues and African-American music. This versatile artist goes through the roots of blues, soul and rock and roll with heartfelt lyrics leaving his dark throat.

Before the great worldwide success of the spaghetti western “A Fistful of Dollars” by Sergio Leone, the films that chose Almería as stage in the sixties were westerns, and bigproductions. In total there were nearly 500 films that have hosted our landscapes to shoot many of the scenes. Almeria became an European Hollywood, with actors like Henry Fonda, Charlton Heston, Anthony Quinn, Orson Welles, Yul Brinnen, Sean Connery, Burt Lencaster, Clint Eastwood, Claudia Cardinale, Sophia Loren, Raquel Welch, Brigitte Bardot, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery and directors like David Lean, George Cukor, Sergio Leone, Richard Lester, Steven Spielberg.

You can see the whole history of cinema in Almería in “La Casa del Cine.The House of Cinema”, the house where John Lennon lived during the filming of the movie “How I Won the War” in (1966).