Valdivia International Film Festival
The Valdivia International Film Festival (FICV or FICVALDIVIA) is a film festival held annually in the Chilean city of Valdivia, in the Los Ríos Region. Its first version was made in 1994 under the name of Valdivia Cine & Video, which was changed to its current name in 1998.
The Festival is one of the most important film and cultural events at a national level. As of 2010, more than four thousand film productions, both national and international, had been exhibited.
The winners of each category are awarded with a golden pudu statuette.
History
In 1993, the Cine Club of the Austral University of Chile created and organized the first international film festival of Valdivia, to celebrate thirty years of activity of the Austral University in the dissemination of the seventh art. Due to the wide reception of the event, the following year the first version of the Valdivia Cine & Video, whose central theme was the environmental impact caused by man. The direction of the new festival was assumed by Lucy Berkhoff.
The event continued to be held annually, while becoming more ambitious. In 1998 it changed its name to the Valdivia International Film Festival, consolidating itself as an international event. In 2002, Berkhoff and Valdivian businessmen created the Valdivia Cultural Center for Cinematographic Promotion (CPCV), a non-profit organization focused on disseminating and developing the visual arts, with the support of CORFO. The immediate participation of the CPCV in the Festival allowed the creation of other parallel activities, such as traveling exhibitions or training courses related to the rescue of audiovisual heritage or the development of cinema in the Los Ríos Region.
In 2005, the team that had run the Festival until then resigned from their duties. For this reason, in November of the following year, the Board of Directors of the Universidad Austral de Chile entrusted the CPCV with the organization of the Festival, which is annually supported in the organization by the Illustrious Municipality of Valdivia and the Los Ríos Region Administration. Lucy Berkhoff left her duties as director, leaving the position in the hands of Guido Mutis, film buff and academic from the Universidad Austral, who died in 2008, at the beginning of the 15th edition of the Festival.
Since 2008, the Festival has entered into a strategic alliance with the Santiago International Documentary Festival (FIDOCS), through a support network with the Chilean Documentary Cultural Corporation (CULDOC), which is currently part of the production festival executive. The collaboration of these entities seeks to improve the quality of film screenings, as well as provide feedback on the processes of each festival.
Throughout 2009 the management was in charge of an interim period, however, the following year the previous executive producer of the festival, Bruno Bettati, president of the Association of Film and Television Producers since 2008, and director of Cinema, took over as director. Chile, a project concerned with the internationalization of Chilean cinema. Thus, since the 17th edition of 2010, the Chilean Feature Film Competition also began to be developed at the festival.
The necessary budget for the Festival is provided by private and public funds. The National Council for Culture and the Arts (CNCA) usually also supports the Festival with money.
To the usual 35mm film format, in 2013 videos began to be received in the new Apple ProRes HQ format. That same year the twentieth edition of the Festival was commemorated.
Editions
The festival is held annually for one week in the second semester, usually during the month of October.
| Edition | Date | Year | International winner | National winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. a | October | 1994 | - | Wichan |
| 2. a | 1995 | - | Long-distance | |
| 3. a | 1996 | Cuesta down | The last one closes the door | |
| 4. a | 10/10 - 15/10 | 1997 | Thesis | - |
| 5. a | 25/09 - 02/10 | 1998 | Martin (Hache) | - |
| 6. a | 21/09 - 25/09 | 1999 | Earth | - |
| 7. a | 30/09 - 06/10 | 2000 | Love dogs | My famous stranger |
| 8. a | 29/09 - 05/10 | 2001 | In the spirit of love | - |
| 9. a | 28/09 - 04/10 | 2002 | To the left of the father | Winter station |
| 10. a | 18/10 - 24/10 | 2003 | Mondays in the sun | Cessante |
| 11. a | 25/09 - 01/10 | 2004 | Machuca | Machuca |
| 12. a | 30/09 - 06/10 | 2005 | The sleeping child | My best enemy |
| 13. a | 25/08 - 30/08 | 2006 | L'enfant | Field days |
| 14. a | 05/10 - 10/10 | 2007 | Still Life | Mirageman |
| 15. a | 03/10 - 08/10 | 2008 | That dear month of August | The gift |
| 16. a | 15/10 - 20/10 | 2009 | Pivellina | The nana |
| 17. a | 14/10 - 19/10 | 2010 | Summer of Goliat | Dead dog |
| 18. a | 11/10 - 16/10 | 2011 | Nana | Peasant music |
| 19. a | 02/10 - 07/10 | 2012 | From Thursday to Sunday | Where condors fly |
| 20. a | 07/10 - 13/10 | 2013 | E Agora? Lembra-Me | Raíz |
| 21. a | 07/10 - 12/10 | 2014 | Waiting for August | The beavers |
| 22. a | 05/10 - 11/10 | 2015 | Motu Maeva | Caught in Japan |
| 23. a | 10/10 - 16/10 | 2016 | The dazzling light of sunset | Bad Board |
| 24. a | 09/10 - 15/10 | 2017 | Baroness | Earth alone |
| 25. a | 08/10 - 15/10 | 2018 | Still Recording | The Dreams of the Castle |
| 26. a | 07/10 - 13/10 | 2019 | So pretty. | Lina de Lima |
Offices
The official venues of the festival are the following:
- Aula Magna Universidad Austral de Chile
- Municipal Theatre Lord Cochrane
- Halls 2, 3 and 5 of Cineplanet Valdiva
- Aula Magna Universidad San Sebastián headquarters Valdivia
- Teatro Cervantes
- Cinema Club of Universidad Austral de Chile
- Paraninfo Room, Universidad Austral de Chile
- Heliport Outdoor Cinema
Since 2013, director Bruno Bettati has raised the need for the festival to have its own infrastructure, which allows it to continue expanding the scope of the event.
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