Here we have the teaser for the IV Edition of the festival, which will take place from October 28 to 31 at the Auditori Germanies in Manises.
Free entrance!
Maniatic 2019 trailer
We present the 2019 trailer
The Maniatic Film Festival is going to be presented next Monday at Fnac Valencia at 7pm
Manises will continue to host the international short film festival of fantastic cinema, which has a lot of exclusive premieres.
Official Selection Maniatic 2019
As LaButaca advanced, we already have the official selection of Maniatic 2019. In a short time you could check it on our website. Meanhile we invite you to read the article published by La Butaca about the short films you will find into Maniatic 2019.
‘Acide’ and ‘El Escarabajo al final de la calle’, great winners of the 2nd edition of the Maniatic Film Festival
The second edition of the International Fantastic Film Festival of Manises: Maniatic, organized by the Cultural Association Ateneu Cultural Ciutat de Manises, and which took place from Tuesday 20 November in the Germanias de Manises Auditorium.
The festival was inaugurated with the short film out of competition ‘Extraños en la carretera’ (Spain), directed by Carlos Solano, the official section began with the short film “El escarabajo al final de la calle” by the Valencian director Joan Vives Lozano, This was the start of a program composed of 32 international short films, of which four were premieres in Spain and 11 premiered in the Comunitat Valenciana at the festival.
At the closing gala, conducted by the actor, monologist and YouTuber Moi Camacho. It was ‘Acide’ (France) the film that won the Best Short Film Award. He also received the award for Best Sound delivered by ‘The Last Monkey’. In addition, its protagonist embodied by the actor Sofian Khammes raised the Best Actor Award. The Russian actor Viktor Kruliak won a Mention for his memorable performance in the short film ‘Faith’. Similarly, the Best Actress Award went to Eva Larvoire, for her work in the Czech film ‘Supine’.
The Audience Award, sponsored by ASCOMA and endowed with € 500 has been awarded to ‘El escarabajo al final de la calle’ (Spain) directed by Joan Vives Lozano. Similarly, ‘El escarabajo al final de la calle’ (Spain) and ‘The Box’ (Slovenia), directed by Dusan Kastelic, were awarded the Special Jury Prize. Meanwhile, ‘Aurore’ (France) directed by Mail Le Mée lifted the awards for Best Direction and Best FX. The Álvaro Rodríguez Areny’s short film ‘Le Blizzard’ received the Honorific Mention for Best Direction.
‘Lay Them Straight’ (Canada) directed by Robert DeLeskie won the Best Screenplay award. The Maniatic for Best Cinematography went to Vladimir Egorov for his work in the short film ‘Faith’ directed by Tatiana Fedorovskaya (Russia), the Mention went to Cedric Larvoire for his cinematography in ‘Supine’ directed by Nicole Goode (Czech Republic). The new Prize awarded by Yamaha Music School Valencia that recognizes the Best Original Soundtrack went to Pau Loewe for ‘La Guarida’ (Spain).
In addition to the 20 films screened in the official section and 4 out of competition and 8 in the non-competitive children’s section; During the festival, their directors, producers, directors of photography, art directors and actors from Valencia, Bilbao, France, Canada and the Czech Republic presented their short films personally, generating interesting conversations with the public and other local audiovisual professionals.
The second edition of Maniatic opens call
THE SECOND EDITION OF THE FANTASTIC MANISTIC INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: MANIATIC OPENS CALL
The Cultural Association Ateneu Cultural Ciutat de Manises has opened the call to participate in the second edition of Maniatic 2018 international fantastic film festival of Manises to be held between November 20 and 23 in the Germanies auditorium.
The festival was born with a clear intention: to support the new talents of national and international fantastic cinema. For this he ran for his first edition as in the first fantastic film festival that pays for selection. In this second edition all works selected in the official section will charge a payment of 100 euros in concept of exhibition rights.
In addition, there will be a cash prize of € 1000 for the best short film. For its part, the Commerce Association of Manises ASCOMA, sponsors the public prize consisting of € 500. In turn, different trophies will be awarded to the best director, best actor, best actress, script, cinematography, sound, special jury prize and best FX.
This project has the collaboration of the Department of Culture, the City of Manises and the Valencian Institute of Cinematography (IVAC). In this second edition, the festival has added a non-competitive section of children’s animation short films; In addition, all the participating works will have a double subtitle in Valencian and Spanish.
Directors, producers and distributors who want to register their works in this edition of the festival can do so on the platforms Movibeta, Clicksforfestivals, Festhome and Filmfreeway.
Access to the screenings and the closing gala will be free. The closing gala will be held at the Germanies Auditorium, and will feature Moi Camacho as the master of ceremonies.
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Official Selection 2017
You can already check which short films are part of the Official Section this year. It has been really difficult to choose among the 453 short films, cause the level was very high. We hope you will come and enjoy them with us from 6 to 9 December in Manises (Valencia).
Soon we will share with you the program!
End of the registration period
The registration period has already ended, and we have received 453 short films from 43 countries.
Thanks to those who have sent, and trusted us, your films. Shortly we will know who are part, as finalists, of this first edition of the International Fantastic Film Festival of Manises.