FEC Festival
The FEC Festival began as a result of the merger of two festivals: the Cambrils FEC and the Reus FEC. So the FEC Festival has two venues: in Cambrils, where the films in the spanish 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 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 FEC Festival has enjoyed the participation of visual artists (Frederic Amat, Tom Carr, Jordi Colomer, Carles Congost, Hannah Collins, Isidre Manils, Alfredo Pirri, Oriol Vilapuig), musicians (Juan Bardem, Carles Cases, Riccardo Massari Spiritini, Carles Santos, Miqui Puig, Rubin Steiner), actors/actresses (Marian Aguilera, Eloy Azorín, Chusa Barbero, Patrícia Bargalló, Georgina Cardona, Lucie Duchêne, Sergi López, Paco León, Rosa Novell, Sergio Pazos, Vicky Peña, Pere Ponce, Pau Roca, Mercedes Sampietro, Assumpta Serna), and film directors (Roser Aguilar, Bigas Luna, Jaume Balagueró, Iciar Bollaín, Judith Colell, Gerard Gormezano, Manuel Huerga, Joaquim Jordà, Isaki Lacuesta, Sígfrid Monleón, Florestano Vancini, Edgar Pêra, Manuel Poirier, Xavi Puebla, Marc Recha, Luis F. Rocha, Rosa Vergés, Agustí Villaronga), in addition to directors and/or representants of other festivals (Baumann-Terrassa, FICMA-Barcelona, Filmets-Badalona, Temporada Alta-Salt/Girona, Fest. Fest. Int. de Films de Dones-Barcelona, ZOOM-Igualada, Curtocircuito-Santiago de Compostela, BAFF-Barcelona, Future Shorts-GB, Kurzfilmtage Winterhtur-Switzerland, Ischia Int. Film Festival-Italy, Siena Short Film Festival-Italy, OrangeCinema-Switzerland, Paris Tout Court-France, Clermont-Ferrand-France, Fest. Int. Locarno-Switzerland, Brussels Int. Short Film Fest-Belgium, Fest. Int. “Vila do Conde”-Portugal), theatre directors (Fernando Bernués, Lluís Pascual, Boris Rotenstein), writers (Vicenç Altaió, Isabel Olesti, Josep Pedrals), film crítics (Lluís Bonet, Fernando de Felipe, Violeta Kovacsics), scenographers (Alain Maratrat), illustrators (Beatrice Allemagna, Arnal Ballester, Charles Berberian), graphic designers (Peret), photographers (Manel Esclusa, Tomàs Pladevall) and theorists on art (Òscar Abril, Laura Baigorri, Florenci Guntín, Andrés Hispano).
From the year 2005, the FEC Festival belongs to the Coordinadora de Festivals de Cinema i Vídeo de Catalunya (CIVI).
