- Montxo Armendáriz and the production company Puy Oria will receive the Pau i Justícia Award on the 10th, coinciding with the opening of the Festival. The winners will participate in a colloquium on the 11th at the MUVIM.
- Humans Fest has chosen the Picassent penitentiary center as the place to pre-inaugurate this year's edition
Valencia, December 3.- The Spanish director Montxo Armendáriz and the production company Puy Oria will receive the Pau i Justícia Award granted by the International Film and Human Rights Festival-Humans Fest, as announced today by Javier Vilalta, director of the Festival, during the press conference to present the VII edition of Humans Fest that took place at the Filmoteca de Valencia.
The Pau i Justícia Award is a recognition that the Festival grants each year to professional cinematographic careers dedicated to the defense of human rights. This year, the recognition will be double: the director Montxo Armendáriz and the production company Puy Oria have been chosen to receive the award in this year's edition, which will be held next week from December 10 to 18. The award ceremony will be on December 10, coinciding with the opening of the Festival, in which the director's film Don't be afraid (2011) will also be screened, which revolves around sexual abuse of minors. The next day, Friday the 11th, a colloquium is planned in which Montxo Armendáriz and Puy Oria will participate at 7 p.m. at the MUVIM, sub-headquarters of the Festival.
During this morning's press conference, which was attended by the general director of CulturArts, José Luis Moreno, the Vice-rector of Culture of the University of Valencia, Antonio Ariño, the director of the MUVIM, Rafael Company, and the Director of the Business-Marketing Department of Caixa Popular, José Mª Company, the programming for this edition has been presented in addition to a trailer with a summary of the films that will be part of the Official Section. “It is a nudist festival, for which you have to dress little by little,” said Javier Vilalta, director of the Festival, about this initiative that is now in its seventh edition and that each year represents a unique encounter in the city in matters of cinema and human rights.
Humans Fest pre-inaugurates the VII edition at the Picassent penitentiary center
The Picassent Penitentiary Center has been the place chosen by Humans Fest to celebrate the pre-inauguration of its seventh edition. The event, coordinated by Ámbit Asociación and in collaboration with IVAC-Culturarts, will feature the screening of two Valencian short films: Good Faith (Begoña Soler) and How I Met Your Father (Álex Montoya).
In addition, the short films "1 minute 1 right" made by inmates of the center will be screened in the workshops given by different entities linked in solidarity such as the production company Quatre Films, Pez en el Agua or Amnesty International. The workshops, which are part of the parallel activities of the Humans Fest, have the participation of the directors Eva Marín, Carlos Martínez and Carlos Sanchís, who have tutored them in the different phases of creation, from the idea, the script, the filming to editing and post-production. The work carried out will be projected during the week of the Festival so that all attendees can see the result.