FEC Cambrils - Reus
The Festival Europeu de Curtmetratges (European Short Film Festival) FEC Cambrils-Reus began as a result of the merger of two festivals: the Cambrils FEC (which in 2007 celebrated its 9th anniversary) and the Reus FEC (in its 6th year). So the Cambrils-Reus FEC has two venues: in Cambrils, where the films in the national competition are shown, and Reus, where European shorts can be seen. The rest of the sessions and parallel activities are divided between the two localities.
The new FEC is a festival devoted to European short films and contemporary videocreation. The FEC Project sees the short film as a means rather than an end, so it is open not just to filmmakers but also to visual or plastic artists who use film as a language in which to express themselves. A European panel of judges from the world of cinema and the arts makes the FEC a festival with its own particular and unique criteria within the panorama of film festivals.
The FEC Project, however, carries on with the spirit of those older festivals and has become a forum that brings together productions from every part of Europe and a festival that not only provides the opportunity to see the best in short films but is also a meeting point for directors, the public and students of film, since all the directors came to the FEC to present the productions they have entered.
In previous years the Cambrils-Reus FEC has enjoyed the participation of visual artists (Frederic Amat, Jordi Colomer, Carles Congost, Hannah Collins, Alfredo Pirri, Oriol Vilapuig), musicians (Juan Bardem, Carles Cases, Riccardo Massari Spiritini, Carles Santos, Miqui Puig, Rubin Steiner), actors/actresses (Chusa Barbero, Patrícia Bargalló, Georgina Cardona, Macarena Gómez, Sergi López, Marian Aguilera, Paco León, Rosa Novell, Sergio Pazos, Vicky Peña, Pere Ponce, Pau Roca, Assumpta Serna), and film directors (Bigas Luna, Jaume Balagueró, Iciar Bollaín, Gerard Gormezano, Joaquim Jordà, Florestano Vancini, Edgar Pêra, Manuel Poirier, Xavi Puebla, Marc Recha, Luis F. Rocha, Rosa Vergés, Agustí Villaronga), in addition to directors of other festivals (Agustí Argelich - Filmets Badalona, Barbara Bialkowska - Siena Short Film Festival, Jordi Comellas – ZOOM Igualada, Carlos Ríos – BAFF Barcelona, Nicola Ruffo - Kurzfilmtage Winterhtur, Salvador Sunyer - Temporada Alta Salt/Girona, Patrick Zocco – Paris Tout Court), theatre directors (Fernando Bernués, Lluís Pascual, Boris Rotenstein), writers (Vicenç Altaió, Isabel Olesti), film crítics (Luís Bonet, Violeta Kovacsics), scenographers (Alain Maratrat), graphic designers (Peret), photographers (Tomàs Pladevall) and theorists on art (Laura Baigorri, Andrés Hispano).
From the year 2005, the Cambrils-Reus FEC belongs to the Coordinadora de Festivals de Cinema i Vídeo de Catalunya (CIVI).
