Nearly a million people were accredited to the IX Film Festival
Madrid, (EFE) .- A lack of one week to start the IX Film Festival nearly a million people (989,934) were recorded via the Internet to participate in this new edition will be held on 3,4 and 5 November, with tickets at a reduced price of 2.90 euros.
The figure exceeds 33% of enrollees October issue of 2014 and 54% at May 2015, have today announced the representatives of the film industry in a press conference at the Film Academy.
“Film Party It has draft, and we made our film lovers enjoy it. It is a credit to all, a group of producers, distributors and exhibitors working to offer cinema giveaway price and meet the fans, “said Juan Ramon Gomez Fabra, president of the Federation of exhibitors, FECE.
A total of 353 cinemas across Spain (3,036 screens), which account for 95% of existing ones, have joined the promotion that requires prior registration on the web fiestadelcine.com, except in the case of children under 14 and those over 60, you can buy tickets directly.
Here, as usual in recent editions, can be purchased at the box office, ATM or internet theaters, which no longer images are often long lines of the first film festivals.
The objective is marked organizers reach 2.5 million viewers over the three days of discounts, which It would exceed the 2.19 million tickets sold in October 2014.
In May 2015-the feast is celebrated every six months from the last year the number of participants fell to 1.6 million, which the organizers attributed to seasonality and also considered a good result.
In general, the context today that they have drawn representatives of the industry is optimistic. If throughout 2014 were sold in total more than 84 million admissions in Spain, expectations indicate that 2015 could close in 90 million.
Also the producers, grouped in FAPAE have ratified the confidence in “changing viewer’s perception regarding the Spanish cinema”, has said its president Ramon Colom, who has attributed the success to the joint efforts of the whole sector, including television.
The share of Spanish cinema screen now amounts to 15%, announced Colom, even less than the 24% figure last year, but could still grow until the end of the year.
Respect the persistence of VAT to 21% and its effects on the sector, the head of the Film Institute (ICAA), Lorena Gonzalez, said he sees it as “a failure”, since there is a competition of the ministry Culture, but Hacienda.
The sector already lost the legislature in this respect.
Colom has opined that the Minister Cristobal Montoro “is not aware of the damage done people of theater, music and cinema “and stated that when the new government comes after the December elections,” the first thing is to ask more money “to ensure the functioning of the new funding model approved this year.
Fabra has insisted that lowering the tax culture is a permanent claim. “We expect the next government to be more sensitive than the present”, he said.
In addition to industry representatives, the presentation ceremony of the IX Film Festival actors and directors have come from films these days are in the lineup, as Alex de la Iglesia, Carmen Machi and Pepón Nieto, of “My great night,” Cesc Gay and Javier Camara, of “Truman”, Eduardo Noriega and Andrea Duro, from “On Wednesdays there are no” and Goya Toledo, for “Unknown”. EFE
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