Film Academy launches aid for Luis García Berlanga Cinematographic Research, of 12,000 euros each

The Film Academy launches, for the fifth consecutive year, the Grants for Cinematographic Research Luis García Berlanga as reported by the institution.

The initiative will support up to three research projects related to knowledge of Spanish and/or Ibero-American cinematography, each of which will receive a financial award of 12.000 euros. Registered projects may choose to culminate in an edited work or a feature-length documentary.

Those interested in this initiative can register their projects from Tuesday, October 8 to Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at 1:59 p.m.

Applications will be made electronically through the registration platform announced on the Aid page. The winners will be chosen by a selection committee made up of audiovisual professionals from different fields.

The program is aimed exclusively at natural persons, of legal age, in the academic and/or professional field, who are nationals or habitual residents of countries belonging to the Ibero-American community.

The institution wants to show its support for the fields of historiographical research on Spanish and Ibero-American cinema through this program, which for five years has claimed the importance of continuing to delve into the memory of our history and our cinematography.

‘The influence of the Civil War on Spanish film theory’, by Fernando Lara; ‘The cinematographic relations between Cuba and Spain. A chapter in the transnational history of Cuban cinema’, by Juan Antonio García Borrero; and ‘Being a protagonist in old age: ageism in 21st century Spanish cinema’, by Natalia Martínez Pérez, María Isabel Menéndez Menéndez, Sonia Dueñas Mohedas and Bárbara Sarmentera Vázquez, were the projects chosen in the last edition of the program.