Festival Data:

• Established: 1956
• Genre: General
• Attendance: 80000
• Total Number of Films Screened: 200
• Total Screenings: 306
• Accreditations: EFA, FIPRESCI

• Competitive
• Has Panels

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Festival Description:

As one of the oldest festivals in world, the Valladolid International Film Festival has had a long history of screening some of the best films around the world.

The Festival consists of the following sections:

OFFICIAL, offering a panorama of current international cinema. The feature-lengths and shorts in this section may participate in or out of competition.

MEETING POINT, a competitive parallel showcase of fiction films worthy of special attention for their subject matter or style as well as special screenings of films from the past which have been recuperated or restored.

TIME OF HISTORY, also competitive for documentaries.

SIDEBARS, devoted to the presentation and analysis of directors, genres, styles, schools, a nation’s cinema, etc.

An International Jury will decide the winners of the following awards from those feature-lengths and shorts selected for participation in competition in the OFFICIAL SECTION:

Feature-lengths

* GOLDEN SPIKE and SILVER SPIKE with cash awards of 50.000 € and 25.000 €, respectively, for the Spanish distributors of these films.

* ‘PILAR MIRÓ’ PRIZE TO THE BEST NEW DIRECTOR, competing with a first or second feature-length for the cinema. The filmmaker receives a cash award of 20.000 €.

* BEST ACTRESS and BEST ACTOR Awards.

* BEST DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Award.

* BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC Award.

* BEST SCRIPT Award.

Shorts

* GOLDEN SPIKE and SILVER SPIKE with cash awards of 10.000 € and 6.000 €, respectively, for the director of each film.

* PRIX UIP VALLADOLID to the best European short produced in 2007 and with a maximum running time of 15 minutes. The winner will receive 2.000 €, and is automatically nominated as one of the finalists for the European Film Academy Short Film Award. Only one joint prize is permitted within the Awards to feature-lengths and one within the shorts category. Cash prizes, in this case, will be split equally. The Prix UIP Valladolid cannot be awarded jointly.

The MEETING POINT section will also have a PRIZE FOR THE BEST FEATURE and one for the BEST FOREIGN SHORT, awarded by the audience. The producer of the feature will receive 15.000 € and the director of the short 5.000 €.

The subsection ‘A Night of Spanish Shorts’ will have a separate cash award of 3.000 € for the director of the winning film, also awarded by the audience.

Another Jury will award a prize of 20.000 € to the filmmaker of the BEST DOCUMENTARY in the TIME OF HISTORY section. The Jury will also award two Second Prizes of 10.000 € to the respective filmmakers. All prizes must be conferred.