31 · 08 · 18 El FICM inaugura su 16ª edición con el estreno en México de El primer hombre en la Luna Compartir en twitter Compartir en facebook Compartir con correo Copiar al portapapeles Azul Ramírez @azulartx El Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia (FICM) inauguró su 16ª edición con el gran estreno en México de El primer hombre en la Luna (2018), dirigida por el ganador del Oscar, Damien Chazelle, quien estuvo presente durante la ceremonia junto con Josh Singer, guionista de la película. Damien Chazelle, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas. On the red carpet, Scottish director and screenwriter Lynne Ramsay, who this year presides over the jury of Mexican Feature Film; Charles Tesson, artistic director of the Cannes Critics' Week, the French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert; the Mexican actors Leonardo Ortizgris, José María Yázpik and Diego Luna; the Mexican director Manolo Caro; the president of the Culture Committee, Sergio Mayer; Damien Chazelle and Josh Singer, director and screenwriter of First Man, among others. This year the Official Selection of the festival consists of 59 short films, 11 documentaries, 12 works from Michoacan and 11 feature films by filmmakers from different states of the Mexican Republic. In total there will be more than 100 Mexican filmmakers presenting their work. For the fifth consecutive year, the festival presents the Online Mexican Short Film Selection, which is made up of more than 23 short films from the Official Selection of the 16th FICM. These titles will be available online and free from the 20th to the 26th of October. The short film that receives the most votes by the audiences will be awarded the Online Mexican Short Film Selection Award, granted by Cinépolis KLIC, consisting of a diploma and $50,000 pesos in cash. As of this year, FICM is part of the newly created Documentary Feature Qualifying Festival List of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), so the winning feature documentary will be considered eligible for the Oscar® nomination. As well as the winning short films in the categories of Fiction, Animation and Documentary that since 2008 are officially recognized by the United States Academy.
