New Directors introduces nine fresh-faced new filmmakers at San Sebastián
Josephine by Javier Marco
As pointed out by
José Luis Rebordinos, the director of the San Sebastián International Film Festival, which is all set to celebrate its 69
th edition between 17 and 25 September, a total of 13 titles will be vying for its Kutxabank Award, worth €50,000: of these dozen or so contenders, nine helmers are first-timers in the world of feature films, while the remaining four titles are sophomore movies for their directors. In addition, among those selected, five of the titles hail from the industry sidebar of previous editions of the festival, which we detail below.
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LJUBLJANA: Several film projects were interrupted because of the Coronavirus pandemic, most of them postponed to a later date, some of them to 2021; film theatres and multiplexes were more or less closed almost all year (completely closed for five months, operating with limited seating capacity for another five months). For the same reason the distribution and cinema releases were very limited, which resulted in a drop in cinema attendance of almost 80%.
The Slovenian Film Centre (SFC), which had announced a new strategy for the next four years in November 2019, found itself in a compromised position with the Slovenian Government fulfilling its financial obligations only on the very last day of 2020. Not being able to execute the majority of already confirmed payments to the Slovenian producers during the year caused a major protest and jeopardised the existence of many film projects and the Sloveni