The colours of the municipality inspire the new image of the International Short Film Festival of Vila-seca

The Vila-seca International Short Film Festival (FICVI) has presented a new image inspired by the visual richness of Vila-seca and its culture. The colour palette of the ninth edition of the event, which will be held from 8 to 17 November, combines the stained glass windows of the Castell de Vila-seca, the deep blue of the sea, the dark brown of the earth that turns coppery with the last hours of autumn light, rural cinema, vineyards and the red wine that accompanies and forms part of the town itself.

With the creation of the new image, a new stage of the competition opens, which last August closed the pre-registration period, beating its own record with a total of 1,479 short films submitted to the call for entries. The success of participation has multiplied the work of the members of the festival’s programming team, who have been working for weeks now on the selection of the 46 short films in the official and young people’s sections that will be screened from 8 to 17 November in the emblematic Celler building in Vila-seca.

The festival, organised by the Vila-seca Tourist Board, has added some new features to the programme this year, such as the Shorts&Wine proposal, which will be a networking event but also a cinematographic recognition event. The activity, which requires prior registration, will take place in the foyer of the Celler de Vila-seca on 16 November from 12:30 to 14h and will consist of a selection of four short films screened during the festival, which a sommelier from the Faculty of Oenology at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) will pair with four different wines.

Registration for the workshops

On the other hand, registrations are still open for the free workshops IN SITU (until 13 October) and Panoramas with instant camera (until 20 October). The IN SITU workshop, which is open to anyone over the age of 14 with prior registration, will be held on Saturday 9 November at the Castell de Vila-seca and consists of a day to learn and put into practice technical and narrative notions in order to make a short film portrait of a person or group of people from the municipality. The resulting short films, which will form part of the IN SITU section of the competition, can be works of great value, which give a voice to the people of Vila-seca and highlight their witness and their links with the municipality. The first prize will be 500 euros and the second prize will be 300 euros.

The instant camera panoramas workshop, run by the cultural association A Bao A Qu, will be held on Sunday 10 November and proposes the creation of small panoramas made up of two or three photographs of spaces in our immediate surroundings, using an instant camera. During the morning, participants will walk around the surroundings of the Castell de Vila-seca and, inspired by photographs taken by women photographers, will create panoramas with an Instax camera, using framing, composition, attention and observation of the light. Each group of participants will take home a diptych or triptych mounted on cardboard.

The new artistic direction

In this ninth edition, the festival has the artistic direction of the outstanding filmmaker Alba Bresolí and the leadership of the international audiovisual production and management company Parallel40, with extensive experience in the sector.

Alba Bresolí, born in 1995 in Muntanyola, has a degree in Communication and Filmmaking and a Masters in Creative Documentary at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. ‘El día que volaron la montaña’ (2022), a documentary short film, was nominated for the Gaudí Awards and screened at national and international film festivals such as IDFA, Documentamadrid and Sheffield DocFest, receiving several international and national awards. She combines her work as a filmmaker working at DocsBarcelona as a programmer.

FICVI’s social networks have also announced the names of the rest of FICVI’s programming team, made up of Sara Xiol, Agustí Argelich and Ingrid Ferrer, and the members of the jury, made up of three young talents who have already received recognition for their work: the producer, director and scriptwriter from Tarragona, David Aymerich; the director and editor Nila Nuñez, and the director and filmmaker Raquel Barrera.