December is a great time for short films lovers: Shortmetraje is back! For ninth year in a row, The Film Society of Lincoln Center will host this showcase of the best Spanish short films of the year as part of their Spanish Cinema Now! film program.  December 19th & 23rd, 6 films  of all genres will be shown: poignant documentaries, brilliant comedies, down-to-earth fictions, genre films or coming-of-age shorts that will undoubtedly take you on a unique journey into the minds of up-and-coming Spanish film stars.

LIBRIS Exlibris | Maria Trenor
THE 5 DEATHS OF IBRAHIM GONSÁLEZ |Las 5 muertes de Ibrahim Gonsález | Pablo Aragüés 
THE BEACH |La playa | Elisa Cepedal 
THE BLONDE FROM PINOS PUENTE |La rubia de Pinos Puente |Vicente Villanueva 
THE COMMUTE |El tránsito | Elías León Simiani 
THE FAUCET |El grifo | Denis Rovira

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Pragda will be speaking at the II Spanish Cultural Industries: Meeting of Analists and Professionals from Spain and U.S. organized by Fundación Alternativas and Fundacion Santillana with the collaboration of the Latin American Studies Center of Miami University, AECID and the Ministry of Culture of Spain.

The meeting will reunite in the Reina Sofia National Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, the 2nd and the 3rd of December, more than 300 professionals from the media sector who will talk about the Spanish Cultural Industries in the North American market.

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November’s just passed and with it, Halloween and Thanksgiving. But December is another month with plenty of holidays, so we wouldn’t want to let pass the chance to wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Pragda will come back in 2011 full of good intentions, great projects and even greater Spanish cinema!

CLANDESTI:  INVISIBLE CATALAN CINEMA UNDER FRANCO
at British Film Institute Southbank, London
November 26-30, 2010

Hit the Streets with a selfless band of independent filmmakers that exposed Franco’s dangerous regime, uncovered the nation’s lingering wounds, and altered the course of Spanish history.

CLANDESTI: INVISIBLE CATALAN CINEMA UNDER FRANCO focuses on a  generation of independent filmmakers whose innate unwillingness to  conform forced them to produce, distribute, and exhibit radical clandestine films in Catalonia, with the furtive hope of sending them into the rest of Franco’s Spain. These films are so forbidden that for most of them, this is the first screening in the U.K.

OPENING NIGHT SCREENING  & RECEPTION FRIDAY NOV. 26th AT 18:10h
PROTEST FEBRUARY 1/8 1976, Anonymous 
LONG JOURNEY TO RAGE by Lorenzo Soler
EL SOPAR by Pere Portabella
Filmmakers ANTONIO PADRÓS and LORENZO SOLER, along with curators MARTA SÁNCHEZand MANUEL BARRIOS, will present the films

This series includes a discussion about experimental cinema in Spain (Radical Politics and Experimental Film in Franco’s Spain) with Vicente J. Benet (Jaume I University, Castellón) onThursday 25th at 18:10h, at NFT3 (BFI Southbank).

Another side event is the screening of two episodes of the 6-part documentary Crònica D’una Mirada followed by a panel discussion with filmmakers Antonio Padrós, Lorenzo Soler andManuel Barrios and historian and Hispanist Paul Preston. Marta Sánchez (co-curator) will be leading the discussion. Saturday 27th at 14:30h, at NFT3 (BFI Southbank).

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The FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA finishes its grand loop around North America in Washington D.C.  We’ve had a wonderful tour this year, and hope you’ve joined us in seeing these movies on the big screen!

WASHINGTON: AFI SILVER THEATRE AND CULTURAL CENTER. 
8633 Colesville Rd. Silver Spring, MD 20910 

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