After its fifth edition in 2021 which was held in a hybrid format due to restrictions in Ibiza due to COVID-19 and obtaining thousands of viewers throughout Spain developing the online Festival at Filmin.es, the Ibiza International Independent Film Festival continues in its 6th edition with its two parallel objectives of bringing the most courageous and cryptic auteur cinema to our island, and at the same time, as a markedly territorial festival, quality independent cinema that will hit theaters. commercial in the peninsula, but never to Ibiza.
We believe in committed auteur films, with necessary points of view, that can move in depth and form up to the margins of the norms of commercial cinema, with total creative freedom.
Understanding the cinema as an essential tool for social awareness, we highlight and organize sections for the promotion of gender equality, migration problems or environmental sensitivity, with specific programs for Institutes on the Island.
Our commitment to the film industry is reflected in our professional sections. The organization of 5 Professional Conferences so far, a contest for scripts of short films with a cash prize and pitchings for feature film projects are the axis of our current activities, complemented by workshops and master classes adapted to the level and need of audiovisual professionals in Ibiza. We even have a special award for the distribution of feature films in Spain.
Our main official sections try to reflect both socio-cultural situations and problems as an open window to the world, in the case of “Panorama”, such as emphasizing experiences in characters that can be extrapolated to any person “Humans in focus”.
The short film is not complementary, dissected into 4 official sections and programmed together with feature films in official and parallel sections such as “Fem-Cine” or “Be-Blue Think Green” is treated as a genre in itself.
IBIZACINEFEST faces its 6th Edition in February 2021 with the collaboration of the cultures departments of Spanish goverment-ICAA, Governing Balear-IEB, Film Commission of the Balearic Islands, Ibiza Island Council, Tourism Council and City Council of Sant Josep, Santa Eulalia, Sant Antoni and the other private partners. Ibizacinefest has achieved the EFFE brand of the European community after its third edition.Ibizacinefest is a member of EFA-European Festivals Association.
The Ibizacinefest is on the official calendar of the most important Festivals in Spain of the ICAA and the IBFC in the Balearic Islands.
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IBIZACINEFEST is the main winter cultural event in Ibiza.
Officials Sections:
International Fiction Feature
International Docs
International First Film
Fem-Cine (Movies that promote gender equality)
BeBlue-Evironment (Movie that promote environmental awareness and respect)
International Fiction ShortFilm
International ShortDoc
Experimental ShortFilm
Spanish Fiction ShortFilm
Animation ShortFilm
Animation Shortfilm for Kids
Industry:
Ibiza Script Shortfilm Festival
Ibizacinefest Pitching
VR Lab
And others paralels sections and activities.
Ibizacinefest organizes, in parallel to the Festival, a series of activities dedicated to the Industry: Professional Day, Master Class, Work-Shops and Ibiza Script Festival,.and an online Pitching for 10 feature film projects (Fiction and Documentary) under development.
FOR ALL OFFICIAL SECTIONS WINNERS:
Festival Trophy + Accommodation in a Hotel and transfer for 3 nights to attend the event in Ibiza island.
And they will choose our special prizes:
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
SPECIAL AUDIENCE PRICE
PRIZE OF THE PRESS-BLOGOS DE ORO
PRIZE OF DISTRIBUTION #CONUNPACK
The winners and others films will be distributed, if they wish, by the distributor #Conunpack and will have access to theatrical secreenings and the VOD Channels and Filmin for Spain.
IBIZA SCRIPT FESTIVAL: Accommodation in a Hotel and transfer for 3 nights to attend the event in Ibiza island for 3 finalist and prize (1.000€) for the winner.
