Madrid will host the first World Meeting of Film Academies

This initiative that will take place in October is pioneering, since for the first time a meeting of those responsible for the Film Academies of different countries will be held at the international level.

Madrid will be the scene of the World Meeting of Film Academies –All Cinemas in the World–, an initiative that will bring together the world community of filmmakers in October in the Spanish capital, as representatives of cultural diversity and as professionals capable of launching a message that serves as a shock. This initiative is pioneering, since for the first time a meeting of those responsible for the Film Academies of different countries will be held at the international level.

This activity, promoted by the City of Madrid and the Academy of Dinner, will value cinema as a universal mirror, an integrating element of all cultures and an engine of social transformation. In a context of multiplicity and wide diversity of cinematography, the aim is to disseminate a story in which the messages can coincide. A varied program of presentations, meetings and activities will bring together cinematographic talents from the five continents.

The World Meeting of Film Academies will have the Spanish entity as host and will invite the heads of the different Academies to participate in a global meeting, in which the challenges they face as key institutions in the cultural development of a country and future lines of cooperation between entities are promoted.

With the participation of film professionals from around the world, the World Forum: The power of filmmakers It will seek to foster a dialogue and will focus on analyzing, in all its dimensions, the power of professionals of the seventh art beyond the big screen.

As a prelude to this initiative, Film library, in Matadero Madrid, will program in August a sample of family-oriented films from countries and nationalities as different as South Africa, New Zealand, Japan, Yugoslavia and Iran.

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