The Lanzarote Film Showcase once again focuses on training. The sound course, subsidized by OFF ESCAC, which is financed by the Ministry of Culture, the ICAA, and the Next Generation Funds of the European Union, is aimed at students in audiovisual fields, professionals, and other people who want to deepen their knowledge of sound.
ESCAC is one of the most prestigious institutions in Spain dedicated to training in film and audiovisual culture, and for this reason, those who will teach the course have a recognized trajectory in both fields.
This is the case of sound technician, Verónica Font, who has worked on more than forty film productions as a sound designer, both in filming and post-production. As a professor, she has taught classes at the Pompeu Fabra University and at the ESCAC.
Pablo García Pérez de Lara, author of five feature films and several short films that have been screened at festivals such as D’A, Seminci, Abycine, L’Alternativa, Karlovy Vary, San Sebastián, and the Cannes Critics' Week, will be the other professor of the sound course.
Students enrolled in this course will be able to record sound at various emblematic locations in Lanzarote and then edit and assemble it in a room set up for this purpose. With this material, a sound narrative will be constructed in the form of a "blind film"; a sound film without images that will be presented during the 15th Lanzarote Film Festival in a session open to the public. All the information can be found at this link.
For its part, the photography course will address the exploration of visual narrative. In the specific case of Lanzarote, the tools offered by the island's natural resources will be analyzed, and how the choices made when choosing and looking at locations can determine the final style of a film.
The instructor responsible for this course will be Bet Rourich, who has extensive experience as a director of photography in film, television, music videos, and advertising, both nationally and internationally, and has received two Gaudí Awards nominations and a Goya nomination for Best Photography for her work on Isabel Coixet's film "Un amor".
The Lanzarote Film Festival is supported by the Cabildo de Lanzarote, the Art, Culture and Tourism Centers, the Lanzarote Foreign Promotion Society through its product brand Lanzarote Film Commission, and sponsored by the Government of the Canary Islands - Canary Islands Latitude of Life -, the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts of Spain (ICAA) of the Ministry of Culture, and a grant from the Government of the Canary Islands.
