The film hard, exactly, 40 seconds but to roll it, three essays and two versions have been needed on Monday. It is not any film and it is that “leaving Mass of 12 of the Pillar“It is the first Spanish cinema film of which you have recorded. Run by Eduardo Jimeno Correas in 1899 today has been the filmmaker Miguel Ángel Lamata who has put himself after the clampa to direct a remake in which those parishioners who left Mass of 12 of the Pilar have been personalities of the cinema, with Luisa Gavasa and the young Olivia Fernández at the head, authorities and neighbors.
The filming is part of the National Meeting of Film Festivals that from Monday until Wednesday will bring together representatives of more than 130 festivals from all over Spain, from San Sebastián to Malaga, in the Aragonese capital. Talks, workshops and documentary presets will happen in spaces such as the Auditorium of Zaragoza or the Palafox cinemas.
At 12.00 the bells of the Basilica del Pilar sounded and neighbors, authorities and personalities were about to place themselves in their positions until Miguel Ángel Lamata say “Action”. With the occasional mistake in the speed of the steps, a dove slipping into the set and other setbacks (which have been taken as it could have been under the sun of justice that fell in the Plaza del Pilar) has been repeated again and again until it became perfect. Of course, in this version the parishioners were already at the door of the basilica and the camera has not entered the temple.
“The film could be called ‘People just getting out of Mass of 12 of the Pilar de Zaragoza,” joked the filmmaker Miguel Ángel Lamata. “What we wanted to do is make a different version. José Luis Borau has already made a faithful and beautiful version of the original, a tribute that for me is unbeatable. That’s why we think of doing something different,” he explained. Thus, the Aragonese filmmaker has also endowed more movement to the film and has put Luisa Gavasa and the young actress Olivia Fernández as “cinema icons.”
The First National Meeting of Film Festivals in Zaragoza
With the aim of demonstrating that “Aragon is a film land, but also of festivals” was born the first National Meeting of Film Festivals. During these three days there will be an extensive program in places like the Auditorium of Zaragoza. This Monday at 13.00 the institutional welcome, chaired by Natalia Chueca, took place to the participants of the meeting from 17 autonomous communities.
From 16.00 it will be the time of welcome by the general director of the General Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts, Ignasi Camós in the Auditorium. Subsequently, the Spanish film festivals will be presented and there will be a round table on female leadership in the creation and direction of festivals.
In the talks and workshops, topics such as women in the direction and creation of festivals, sustainability plans, financing or rural environment or educational short films will be addressed. There will also be workshops for young filmmakers, talks with film critics such as Carlos Boyero and documentary presenter in Palafox cinemas. In fact, this Tuesday will be presented “Cariñena, Vino del Mar” by Javier Calvo and Wednesday “Borau and the cinema” by Germán Roda.
“We want to thank the Ministry of Culture and institutional collaboration and, above all, those 130 festivals from all over Spain who have made the effort to come here to Zaragoza. Zaragoza is a friendly city and we will receive great. We also thank you for that effort to foster that culture that vertebra the territory,” explains the director of Ara Film Fest, José Antonio Aguilar.
