Today Friday 19 June at 21.30 in the Cines del Sur marquee (Plaza Bibarrambla), the works created by the participants in the Live Cinema Workshop held over the last few days as part of the Granada Cines del Sur Festival will be shown.
The Live Cinema Workshop was run by the Asociación Cultural Miga and took place between 15 and 19 June, always in afternoon sessions (from 17:00 to 22:00). This Association, formed in 2004 and located in Granada, regularly includes all types of artistic representation in its workshops: DJs, VJs, live music, net art, graphic design, experimental video and electoacoustics are all included to develop, feed and expand ideas and projects.
The new tools in the field of computers for sound and visual creation that the Live Cinema Workshop has investigated include the development of software and creative techniques, making training in these fields an added value for the artistic creation and trying to provide a complete idea of the different facets that are involved in an activity like video creation in real time or VJ-ing. A series of links were created between different techniques for obtaining images in movement and current digital tools, their editing and manipulation as well as the final preparation for using them live.
Additionally, the workshop included a review, in the form of a historical introduction, to the figure of the video jockey (VJ), an approach to video language and the digital image from the use of resources for the production of material, an analysis of specific tools for live visual creation and a study of editing and appropriate staging. Finally, special emphasis was placed on audio-visual synchronisation, offering students the knowledge necessary to make totally synchronised audiovisual works to be shown in public, as all will be able to see in the exhibition that will take place on Friday night.

The photographer and director of the Centro Andaluz de Fotografía, Pablo Juliá, will visit the Granada Cines del Sur Festival on Thursday to hold a conversation with the Lebanese photojournalist Dalia Khamissy. The meeting will take place at 21:30 in the Andalusia Filmoteca Exhibition Room.

The work of this renowned photojournalist follows the traces of the summer 2006 Israeli offensive in the Lebanese landscape, depicting the spaces that were invaded by war one day and then abandoned.

The exhibition of her work, Abandoned Spaces, organised by the Festival with the collaboration of the Centro andaluz de Fotografía, has been open since last 29 May and can be visited until 5 July at the Andalusia Filmoteca Exhibition Room (Calle Profesor Sainz Cantero, Number 6, Granada).

On Wednesday 17 June in the Centro Cultural CajaGRANADA Memoria de Andalucía, a colloquium will take place on the film industry in Nigeria in which producers and experts on emerging African film will participate.

Cines del Sur presents this roundtable, which will be moderated by the Festival programmer Alberto Elena and will focus on the current phenomenon of film production in Sub-Saharan Africa. The roundtable will include Peace Anyiam-Fiberesima, a Nigerian producer and member of the jury for Cines del Sur’s Official Section and the critics and historians Jonathan Haynes, Professor at the University of Long Island and Fernando González, Professor at the University of Salamanca.
Additionally, the issue of the magazine Archivos de la Filmoteca entitled Nollywood: panorama audiovisual en Nigeria coordinated by Alberto Elena with the collaboration of Jonathan Haynes will be presented. Vicente J. Benet, the publication’s editor-in-chief, will also be present.
Immediately afterwards, the documentary Mission Nollywood/Peace Mission (Germany, 2008) by Dorothee Wenner and Fred Amata’s Letters to a Stranger (Nigeria, 2008) will be shown.

From Monday 14th to Thursday 18th at 20:00, the Cines del Sur Festival, the Casa Molino Ángel Ganivet de la Diputación Provincial de Granada and the Asociación Cultural Diente de Oro are organising a cycle of intercultural colloquia. Entitled Extraño Tanto Mar, it endeavours to take a new look at four fundamental aspects of immigration affecting all of 21st century society. This new reality entails new forms of understanding life. All of the roundtables will be held at 20:00 in the Festival’s Meeting Point, Plaza Bibarambla, except the roundtable on Immigration and Border Cities, which will take place at the Casa Molino Ángel Ganivet.

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