Avanca Film Festival opens the 22nd edition with the 2017 awards ceremony



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Today will feature the short films by Moisés Rodrigues and Paulo Araújo, including the premiere of Filipe Martins' "Marias da Sé", shot in downtown Porto and featuring residents of Sé, in competition for the feature film prize, alongside "The Forest" by Roman Zhigalov (Russia), "IVAN" by Janez Burger (Slovenia), and "King of the Belgians" by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth (Belgium) [19659002] According to a press release from the festival organization, the Portuguese presence in the international selection takes place with "Punição" by Paulo Araújo and "Amar Amarela" by Dinis M. Costa, with documentaries "Vintage", by Carlos Ruiz, "The lonely village" by Carlos Silveira, "No Momento" by Rui Martins, "Propeller" by Tiago Silva, and by experimental videos "Sombra" by Rui Filipe Torres, and "Memórias da

Avanca receives also the feature film "Uma Vida sublime" by Luís Diogo, and the documentary io "Pretu Funguli" by Costa Valente and Monica Mussoni (a co-production with Guiné-Bissau).

In the short films will appear the films "5 cigarrilhas", of Passos Zamith, "Instead of words, the wind", of Tiago Damascus, "Avesso" of Francisco Colombo (a co-production with Brazil) Casa Amarela ", of Ana Luísa Lopes, and animation "Rodar" of Moisés Rodrigues

Already this month, the Câmara Municipal de Estarreja and the Cinca de Avanca have announced the creation of a film production fund for finance production At the time, the municipal councilor for culture, Isabel Simões Pinto, announced that "the partnership between the Câmara de Estarreja and the Avanca Cineclube will be strengthened by the creation of a fund of film production "," Avanca Film Fund ", already endowed by the local authority with ten thousand euros

António Costa Valente, president of the film festival that organizes the Festival," after 21 years, more than 100 films products and with over 300 awards collected by the producteu r Place, there are unique conditions for

Regarding the value of the fund, Costa Valente is confident that it will be multiplied, "notably through the ancillary services necessary for the production of films." [19659002] In the scientific field, at the conference more than a hundred papers, before an academic commission in which the five continents are represented.

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