What is the Malaga Festival for? This is how our cinema is sold to the world

The visible part of the festival sounds like posing, presentations and red carpets. But, for these stories to reach our theaters, funding is needed. And that is also being sought these days in Malaga at another festival: the Mafiz, a venue in which Ibero-American cinema is promoted. At professionals promote, broadcast and promote films in Spanish.

thus explains Anabelle Aramburucoordinator of the meeting, the objective of this festival: “So that our cinema is not only seen in Spain, but also in every country in the rest of the world”.

Spain It is the sixth exporter of audiovisual content. For this reason, the days here are intense. A total of 150 buyers view our cinema. Vicente Canales, from the Film Factory distributor, explains that they are looking for commercial films, such as a thriller, a genre film or a very good comedy.

Directors and producers negotiate budgets. At the same time, 600 distributors and programmers are looking for films to show at their festivals. To organize the one in Malaga, 300 films have been seen and only 30 have passed the selection. Moisés Salamá, from the Management and Programming Committee of the Malaga Festivalensures that this screening is done taking into account quality criteria, in search of stimulating and new films.

Here the internationalization of our cinema is “cooked”. It is the “industrial area” of a festival that -this year back to normality- expects to exceed one million 800 thousand euros of income that last year he left in the city of Malaga.