VIGO FILM OFFICE ROUNDTABLE:
II FESTIVAL ENCOUNTER – NORTHERN BROTHERHOODS
Friday, September 26 at 11:00
APO’STROPHE.ARTE ROOM – PLAZA ELÍPTICA

FESTIVAL ENCOUNTER

With the objective of continuing to expand the connections between festivals and cultural management professionals, this year we will once again celebrate, in collaboration with the VIGO FILM OFFICE, a roundtable in which representatives of genre festivals from Euskadi, Navarra, Catalunya and Galicia will participate.

Complementary activity
Special screening: Northern Brotherhoods

An encounter in which we will talk about the health of genre cinema in our country in general, in the respective autonomous communities more specifically, and in which the facilities and difficulties that both artists and programming teams encounter when creating works and building selections that manifest the talent of each autonomous community in the field of horror and fantasy will be exposed.

Participants in this roundtable:

JOSEMI BELTRÁN

Representing the Fantastic and Horror Film Week of San Sebastián (Euskadi)

Head of the Cinema Unit at Donostia Kultura since 2011, which involves being the director of the Fantastic and Horror Cinema Week, as well as the Film and Human Rights Festival. His team also organizes the classic Nosferatu cycles in Donostia. A journalist and film club member by training, passionate about cinema and culture in all its forms.

ROGER SÀBAT

Representing Terror Molins – Horror Film Festival of Molins de Rei and the TAC Association – Terror Throughout Catalunya (Catalunya)

Since 2001, he has been part of the organization of the Horror Cinema Festival of Molins de Rei, where he develops tasks as short film programmer, performance coordinator, and currently serves as president of the association. He is also a member of the Terror Arreu de Catalunya (TAC) Federation, which groups 16 Catalan genre festivals and once a year awards the TAC Prizes to the best horror and fantastic short films of Catalan production. Outside of cinema, he is passionate about rice and Lego Technic.

AGUSTÍ LLOBERAS DEL CASTILLO

Representing Terror Molins – Horror Cinema Festival of Molins de Rei (Catalunya)

Member of the organization of the Horror Cinema Festival of Molins de Rei since 2015. From 2017, he assumed responsibilities as short film programmer of the festival, a task that passionate him. He also forms part of the educational section of the festival, both in the TerrorKids section (aimed at family audiences) and in the Sessió Instituts (focused on teenage audiences).

JACINT ESPUNY

Representing FangoFest – International Festival of Fantastic Horror and Gore Cinema (Catalunya)

Director, screenwriter and producer of gore cinema. Since 2005, the year he founded the production company Kutrefacto Films, he has participated in more than thirty projects including short films, feature films and documentaries. Notable among these is his El hijo de la naranjo trilogy and the feature film Infección Zombi (2016), distributed internationally. He is currently producing the feature film Once upon a time in Jerusalem. He also directs the Fangofest Amposta, international festival of fantastic, horror and gore cinema, which has been held for more than fifteen years.

MIGUEL SUÁREZ DEL CERRO

Representing the International Fantastic and Horror Film Festival of Navarra (Navarra)

Graduate in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Navarra, he is a screenwriter and cultural programmer. He has received screenplay and essay awards granted by DarTV (2011), Expresarte Navarra (2014) and Valores Universales de Zaragoza (2014). He is founder and director of the International Fantastic and Horror Cinema Festival of Navarra, active since 2012, and also directs the Russian Cinema Cycle of Pamplona, dedicated to the dissemination of this cinematography. He has organized and programmed numerous audiovisual exhibitions in the Navarran capital and is author of the book Miradas rusas en Pamplona.

ANABEL SOTO

Representing Lóstrego – Fantastic Cinema Festival (Galicia)

Creator and current co-director of the Lóstrego Festival in A Coruña. She also serves as co-director of the Fancine de Lemos and the Festival de Monforte. She trained in A Coruña in the higher cycles of Realization and Production of Audiovisual Projects and Shows. She stands out for her commitment to the defense of short films and the promotion of Galician audiovisual works.

LUIS M. ROSALES

Representing Curtas – Festival do Imaxinario of Vilagarcía de Arousa (Galicia)

Recognized expert in the fantastic genre endorsed by being the director of Scifiworld magazine, the most successful and longest-running Spanish publication dedicated to fantastic cinema. In addition to writing for magazines such as the American Fangoria, the Italian Nocturno, or the French L’Ecran Fantastique, he has extensive experience directing, programming and/or collaborating in numerous international festivals. He currently directs the international fantastic and horror cinema festival of Galicia, Curtas Festival do Imaxinario.

This activity has the support of:

Vigo Film Office (VFO) is a department of the Fundación Vigo Convention Bureau, a non-profit entity that promotes the city as a filming location for audiovisual productions, assists production companies and professionals who choose Vigo, and stimulates local investment and development. In short, they offer production companies all the facilities to save time, effort and money when filming in our city.