After pausing the sequence of its editions in 2023 due to lack of budget, the Los Cabos International Film Festival is back this year.
The activities of the event will take place from December 4 to 8 in Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo.
“The budgetary issues have been very severe, not only with us, I think in general, many supports have been reduced, both public and private, and fortunately or unfortunately, cultural events in Mexico are largely supported by those supports,” said Maru Garzón Polanco, artistic director of the festival, in an interview with ABC News.
The event stands out among the main ones in the country and is perhaps the only one that promotes the proposals of emerging filmmakers from Mexico who have stood out both nationally and internationally.
Proof of this are films that have toured the main festivals in the world and that arrived as a project on paper or already in their final stage to compete at the FIC in Los Cabos.
“We are a festival that has a film fund, the Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund, which was created to support the Mexican film industry and we have always supported projects from there, both in development and in the post-production stage, and echoing the support we provide, to develop films to continue putting our little drop of oil in the national film machinery,” explained Garzón.
Noche de Fuego by Tatiana Hueso; La Camarista by Lila Avilés; Museo by Alonso Ruiz Palacio; Midnight Family by Luke Lorentzen; Clases de Historia by Marcelino Islas; Ya No Estoy Aquí by Fernando Frías, and Blanco de Verano by Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson are some of the titles that reached the big screen with the help of the film fund.
The call for entries opened on September 5 and closes on October 11; the selected projects will be announced on the festival website or on social media on November 5.
Source: abcnoticias
