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

It was 2002 when Alberto and Uri found themselves in Barcelona launching a small event in which (here comes the news), the main course was the screening of a music documentary! A year later in Barcelona, In-Edit.Beefeater was born, the first festival in Spain (and Europe) that was exclusively dedicated to music documentaries. The Club Helena witnessed its birth (and it was great to do it in such an intimate location), with barely 1.300 viewers. In 2008 there were already 21.500 of you. Yes, In-Edit Beefeater continues on its merry way, and it does so looking ahead and listening to the world. The Festival doesn't now just belong to Barcelona and Santiago de Chile (since 2004). You see, during 2009, the Festival also arrived in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Let's hope that 2010 follows the same route and truly confirms what we've all been thinking for a long time: that music and cinema are something universal.

What's more, In-Edit.Beefeater has created a network of collaborators countrywide so that non-travellers can receive the most outstanding music documentaries in their own cities... Donostia, Santiago de Compostela, Lanzarote, Seville or Cadiz are just some of the cities in which we collaborate each year to bring you some of the music documentaries that have filled cinemas in Barcelona.

And we keep on at it, broadening our activities to strengthen the development of the genre. For this reason, our humble distributor, The In-Edit Master Series, was born, with titles that are now already on the Spanish market, such as Leonard Cohen. I'm your man or Kurt Cobain: About a son.

And, let's not forget! The 7th edition of the Festival In-Edit.Beefeater is about to arrive, the motive for all of this and the reason that so many people have given so much. We're sure that wherever he is, Alberto is happy.