Ibizacinefest is the new qualifying festival for the 2023 Goya Awards for the fiction and documentary short film categories.
After holding the 2021 edition in a hybrid format through Filmin, with almost 24,000 viewings and in auditoriums on the Island as the restrictions caused by Covid-19 allowed, IBZCF22 has returned to face-to-face with its two parallel objectives of bringing to our island the bravest and most cryptic auteur cinema, and at the same time, as a markedly territorial festival, quality independent cinema that will reach commercial theaters on the peninsula, but never to Ibiza.
We believe in committed auteur films, with the necessary points of view, which can move in substance and form to the margins of the norms of commercial cinema, with total creative freedom.
The planning of the sixth edition of the IBZCF was marked
for the total return to face-to-face attendance and the expansion
from its radius of action to the 5 municipalities of Ibiza, the entirety of its territory and we have the municipal, island institutional support in areas of culture, equality and tourism, regional and state from the Ministry of Culture of Spain-ICAA.
IBZCF is again a 100% face-to-face festival but Filmin is still essential for us, giving the possibility of having spectators throughout Spain.
We offer national online visibility to the films that wish it (20 feature films in the 2022 edition), with various possibilities of permanence during the 10 days of the festival, even offering 24-hour premieres, while we include island promotional videos that have reached nearly 5,000 viewers. Filmin also connects us with the industry and our desire to participate and help in the distribution of these films, since some of them, discovered in IBZCF, even being state premieres, obtain a contract and are included in the Filmin catalog.
Our Distribution Award continues in collaboration with #ConUnPack and the Mexican film RICOCHET, thanks to its award, will be released in theaters and platforms thanks to its presence at IBZCF22. In this sense, we highlight that soon, the Japanese production WOMAN OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS, awarded with this award at IBZCF21, will be released in theaters and platforms, demonstrating that this award and collaboration is a success.
Our Pitching and advice sections for four feature film projects have continued online, supervised by Ángela Bosch and we were able to premiere the teaser of SORBELTZA, the winning short film of our screenplay contest at IBZCF21 awarded in cash
for co-production.
Our new programs dedicated exclusively to high school students has been one of the strong points of this edition, the acceptance of the students to the presented program has been one of our great satisfactions, after all, it will be the future public of the festival and of the less conventional and commercial cinema, but
of great authorial quality and social commitment, that we strive
in programming.
The same acceptance is repeated in our first CINEKIDS, a program of animated short films for the little ones and that they have enjoyed in 4 municipalities of Ibiza
We will continue in our 7th edition the intention set in 2022, to release feature films in Spain and help them in their distribution, to occupy the 3 commercial theaters on the Island, to program around 100 films of proven quality, authorial, independent, brave, committed... ..and therefore cryptic, which in no other way would reach our Island and help them in their distribution in Spain.
DOCMA AWARD
In collaboration with the Documentary Film Association of Spain. The Docma Award consists of a free annual subscription to the Association for the director of the award-winning film or films, as well as for its producer(s).
Docma wants to offer the opportunity to authors to show their works beyond the festival circuit and thus open a new channel for their works, so the award also includes a screening of the film - or films awarded within the Cycle Docma, which is usually shown at Cineteca Matadero (Madrid), as well as at other cinemas with which a future agreement is reached.
Documentary feature films of national production and/or Spanish-speaking director are eligible for the award, and up to a maximum of two works may receive the award.
The Docma Jury that will award the prize will be made up of three members of Docma, all of whom are filmmakers (in the broadest sense of the term) with proven experience in fields such as film direction, production, distribution or programming.
AWARD WITH A PACK TO THE DISTRIBUTION
#ConUnPack Distribución will award a distribution prize to a fiction feature film programmed at the Festival. Said prize will consist of the distribution of the chosen film in Spain in all the exhibition windows where the producer and #ConUnPack Distribución deem appropriate. Contemplating the premiere in theaters and the formula of "digital premiere". The distribution will contemplate at least the exploitation windows in the TVOD, SVOD and AVOD cultural circuit.
CRITICS AWARD
For the fourth consecutive year: Blogos de Oro critics' award for the best feature film in the Official Sections of the Ibizacinefest. The Blogos de Oro are the independent film awards in which online media related to the seventh art choose the best of the year in independent Spanish cinema, legally formalized as the Blogos de Oro Film Awards Association.
AMAE AWARD FOR THE BEST EDITING
In collaboration with the Association of Audiovisual Film Editors of Spain (AMAE), which will reward the best national feature film and short film editing and grants free post-production sessions in studios and production companies.
AUDIENCE AWARD
The Audience Award will be awarded to the production with the best grade in our Filmin programming.
AWARDS AND SPECIAL MENTIONS IBZCF
For all the Official Sections of the festival. The Jury is made up of the members of the Ibizacinefest Cultural Association and jointly with the Department of Equality of Sant Josep de sa Talaia in the case of the Fem-Cine section. All directors will be invited, expenses paid (European flights only), to the last weekend of the festival, when they will be presented with our award.
IBZCF PITCHING
It rewards 4 feature film projects at any stage of their development, with an online counseling session of approx. 90 minutes by Àngela Bosch and delivery of a corresponding report to guide its production and/or distribution.
IBZ SCRIPT FESTIVAL AWARD
Cash prize of 1,000 euros awarded by a Jury made up of members of the Ibizacinefest Cultural Association, destined for the production of the short film whose script has been awarded. Said short film will be selected in the corresponding Official Section in the following edition of Ibizacinefest at the end of production. The Jury can award up to 2 special mentions.
IBZCF VR AWARD
Award for the 3 best VR projects registered in this edition, which consists of free online monitoring and advice on the project by Cacao Cinema.