Welcome to Southern Film Festivals

Southern Film Festivals was created during the first edition of Granada Film Festival Cines del Sur

The purpose of the platform is to facilitate the exchange of information and the development of collaborative efforts that further the objectives shared by all Festivals of the South. Such objectives were agreed in the Granada Statement.

The participants of the second Festivals of the South encounter, 2008, were the following:

GENERAL CO-ORDINATION:

Mr. José Sánchez-Montes (Festival Director)
Granada Film Festival Cines del Sur

Mrs. Nina Frese (Industry Relations)
Granada Film Festival Cines del Sur

ASIA:

Mr. Kim Dong Ho
Pusan International Film Festival (Regional co-ordination Asia)

Mr. Young-Jung Cho
Pusan International Film Festival (Regional co-ordination Asia)

Mrs. Aruna Vasudev
Founder, Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian Cinema, and President of NETPAC

Mr. VK Joseph
International Film Festival of Kerala

AFRICA:

Mr. Guy YAMEOGO
Festival Panafricain du Cinema et de la Television de Ouagadougou (FESPACO) (Regional co-ordination Africa)

LATIN AMERICA:

Mr. Ivan Giroud
International Festival of New Latin American Cinema (Regional co-ordination Latin America)

Mrs. Lucy Virgen
Guadalajara Internacional Film Festival

FESTIVALS dedicated to Southern Cinematorgaphies:

Mr. Javier Corcuera
Sahara Film Festival, FISahara

Mrs. Tonje Skar Reiersen
Films From the South Oslo

Mr. Eduardo Trias
Iberoamerican Film Festival, Huelva

Mrs. Mane Cisneros
Tarifa African Film Festival