MAR DEL PLATA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL–
OPENS ITS ANIMATION SECTION : "CALOI EN SU TINTA"
Within the framework of an increasingly wide program, this year, Mar del Plata International Film Festival will have, for the first time in its history, a special section devoted to animation cinema. This fundamental discipline, which is found at the very origin of the cinematography, is today one of the most attractive expressive possibilities for the artists and has permanently enriched the cinematographic language with surprising works.
For the development of this important section, Mar del Plata
International Film Festival has summoned Caloi en su tinta, the
multirewarded TV show, the greatest reference on the subject in our country, who has been internationally recognized for his labour spreading animation author cinema from all over the world. Caloi en su tinta has thought that, in order to introduce us in this fantastic world of the animation art, the best thing was to pay a well-deserved homage to Annecy International Festival, one of the biggest events that gathers together the best international animation productions, awarding, in many categories, film makers, animators, producers, students, etc.
For more than forty years, Annecy, an alpine lovely city in the south of France, gathers together all the animation art in an enthusiastic festival, which we will have the privilege to enjoy in Mar del Plata with the exhibition of the awarded films in the different categories all along its history.
It has to do with a retrospective display, composed of 70 films,
organized in 10 programs of both short-films and feature films awarded since 1960 up to the last edition, in 2005.
The event will count with the presence of its director, Tiziana Loschi, who has been especially invited for this occasion and who will formally open the screenings.
Fernando Madeda