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The VI edition of the ‘Made in Huelva’ Short Film Competitionsummoned by WofestHuelva With the sponsorship of the Social Council of the University of Huelva, it already has its winner. Is about Natalia Escanoa native of Cortegana, who, with his video-art work titled ‘A game’has won the prize awarded by the official jury of the contest and which is endowed with 1,000 euros.
The jury, made up of the secretary of the Social Council of the UHU, Susana Duque, the journalist and writer Mari Paz Díaz, and the producer and distributor of LINE UP – Film Agency, Alfonso Díaz, has especially valued this work for “its narrative vocation singular, the choice and composition of the shots and their originality and ability to tell how relevance and sensitivity also exist in everyday life”.
The winner, visibly moved, has shown herself to be very grateful for this award and, especially, for the opportunity that the contest represents for Huelva directors and filmmakers to show their work. “Behind each project there is a lot of work behind it and this is a pat on the back that gives you a push to continue working”, she highlighted. “It is something very beautiful, and even more considering the quality of the rest of the works that have been submitted to the contest in this edition”, she added.
Her work grew out of a moment of fear and despair when air strikes left her stranded at the airport, with no money to sleep in a hotel. “A novel scenario, where the camera was the place to communicate and dialogue with the space. A time to break with the aesthetic work that characterizes my work and search in the most ordinary and everyday. A game, created with desperation and fun. A game to be played”, according to what she herself narrates in the synopsis of the short film.
For their part, the public attending the screening session of the seven short films presented this year in the contest have decided to award their prize to Luichi Macías, for his documentary-type work entitled ‘Explantadas’. Macías insisted that it has been “very exciting” to receive this recognition from the public, especially because “I have been able to feel the warmth, the energy, that the message has reached them, the story that we want to make visible, which is the Asian syndrome , implant disease”.
Apart from Natalia Escaño, the other finalists in the contest were Edith Fernández and Lucía Espinosa, with the short titled ‘Mariposa’, Inmaculada Vázquez, with her work ‘Tú’ and Luichi Macías, with ‘Explantadas’. The contest, sponsored by the Social Council of the UHU, aims to promote the creation of short films directed by women born or residing in the province or who have shot in the province, as well as promoting the incorporation of women in all technical departments that make up a shoot. Since the start of the contest, there are already around fifty short films directed by women who have participated in it. Of the seven works that have been presented this year, five premiered at Wofest.
Closing session with ‘The Kings of the World’
The eighth edition of WofestHuelva has come to an end on Saturday night with the screening of the latest film by Colombian director Laura Mora, entitled ‘Los reyes del mundo’, and which was the winner of the Golden Shell in San Sebastian. With it came an end to three days dedicated to promoting, disseminating and boosting the work carried out by women in the cinematographic field with an intense agenda in which, in addition to the projections of films directed by women, educational and training activities have been added, and the organization of this contest.
In the closing session, the organizers of this Film Festival made by Women, María Luisa Oliveira, María Clauss and Gele Fernandez Montanohave wanted to express their utmost gratitude to the public, as the main protagonist of this initiative, whose main purpose is for citizens to enjoy the cinema, as well as to the sponsors and collaborators who make it possible.
