FOUR SCHOLARSHIPS TO SUPPORT EMERGING FILMMAKERS, KEEPING ALIVE THE SPIRIT OF OUR BELOVED AMY, FILMMAKER AND EDUCATOR Amy Halpern's presence in 2022 marked a turning point in the history of our festival and for all those who participated in that edition, after which,...
THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN PLANTS AND HUMANS WAS THE FOCUS OF THIS YEAR'S EXPERIMENTAL FILM WORKSHOP AT THE PORTO/POST/DOC FESTIVAL Last November, we held our Experimental Cinema Workshop Criaturas da Luz (Creatures of Light) for the fourth consecutive year as part of the...
Last October, we finally made a long-awaited project a reality: the BAICC on the Road Program, which marked the Canadian premiere of several Spanish-Canadian co-productions resulting from our BAICC Film Creation Artistic Residencies. Throughout the eight years that...
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) welcomed Spanish filmmaker Juana Robles last month as the current resident in the ninth edition of the BAICC Residencias Artísticas Internacionales de Creacion Cinematográfica, a collaboration between the (S8)...
Juana Robles is the creator of béal, the winning project for this ninth BAICC – International Artistic Residencies for Cinematographic Creation 2025/26. The assessment committee made up of a representative from each of the three entities responsible for the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWnwBfzswqI&ab_channel=s8cinema Aftermovie of sixteenth edición do (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico that finished June 8 The management of the (S8) Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico is taking stock of this year’s 16th...
We spoke with Carlos Castillo, a multidisciplinary and multifaceted artist, about his work and the fascinating Venezuelan avant-garde Super 8 movement of the 1970s and 1980s. You come from other artistic disciplines such as drawing or sculpture, so how did you get...
This year’s (S8) will end on Saturday with the Wandering Projection, brought to us by the self-run laboratories Laia-Torre (Porto) and Mire (Nantes). A 16 mm screening will tour the streets of A Coruña thanks to this project, which blends art, technology, solidarity,...
By Ivonne Sheen I asked some of the directors from the Sinais Latin America Section to share a song related to their films and their feelings and thoughts. Then, guided by randomness and intuition, I composed a long poem resulting from the technique of cut-up,...