First of all the Festival wants to thank the audience for its confidence and fidelity, proven through the rise of the average attendance per screening, the total number of attendance growing to 22.500. It is worth to underline films such as "Tiempo de Leyenda", "Favela on Blast", "Soul Power" , Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison" or "One Fast Move or I'm gone: Kerouac Big Sur", films which were sold out. Furthermore the festival continues to bid not only for documentaries associated to musical figures, but also for documentaries focusing on different social or political movements, such as “Soundtrack for a Revolution” or “Suffering and Smiling”, the festival being a window for a wide range of stiles, origins and themes.

This year again the In-Edit.Beefeater Festival complemented the screenings with a seres of parallel activities – and for the first time concerts. These have been received with enthusiasm by the assisting audience.

Vincent Moon offered an amusing and passionated lesson, which was more then a simple round table and which became a special audio-visual experience in which we could learn more about his work and how he is approaching it.

The talk between Joe Boyd and Mario Pacheco -  two heavy weights in the history of music - was educative, approaching the big subjects, anecdotes and myths of the music industry.

THE AWARDS

After the verdict of the Jury the winners are:

- The winner of the In-Edit.Beefeater award of the Official International Section is “Still Bill” directed by Damani Baker and Alex Vlack.  This year the jury dedicated a Special Mention to  "Evening's Civil Twilight in Empires of Tin" de Jem Cohen.

- The winner of the National Official Section is "Febrero: cuando la vida es carnaval" directed by Nacho Sacaluga

- The winner of the Audience Award is “Tiempo de Leyenda”, directed by José Sánchez-Montes

We already carried out tenths of screenings so far, where the faces of the audience showed satisfaction. If there were some documentaries which did not appealed to some of the audience, they were definitely in minority. For the last days of the festival we kept the farwell firework full of good films we will detail in continuation.

Boxing, Africa and the fall of empires, things only united in this festival.

COMING ON...

EVENING'S CIVIL TWILINGHT IN EMPIRES OF TIN. The fall of the empires is a classic since the Roman Empire fall apart.  Now we have Jem Cohen, showing a concert becoming the soundtrac for the fall of the Austrian Hungarian Empire and the end of the hegemony of the United States as the “old school”.  Vic Chestnut sings and commands. In the backround the Joseph Roth’s great novel “The Radetzky March”.

SOUL POWER. A mitical box fight between 2 myths: Muhammad Ali and Joe Foreman. A concert celebration of black music in their  height.

LAST CALL FOR...

TOTE KING. TENGO QUE VOLVER A CASA. A film which portraits Tote King the rapper from Seville.
 
FEBRERO, CUANDO LA VIDA ES CARNAVAL. The Andalusian humour comes from Cadiz. And the Carneval in Cadiz is the funniest in the world.
 
THE AGONY AND ECTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR. A history of the music of the last 40 year according to the for murder accused San Phil Spector.
 
JARDS MACALÉ. A musician from the beginning of Tropicalism.
 
LOS BLUE SPLENDOR. A film which recalls the key band  in Valparaíso in the sixties.
 
SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION. What was the music the Afro-Americans were singing during the Civil Rights manifestations? What means did they have for the movments. Questions answered in this great documentary.
 
TIEMPO DE LEYENDA. It remains only to say that there are only few tickets left.