Under the auspices of Comunidad de Madrid and the prestigious ECAM film school, the four dayECAM Forum co-production market got off to a flying start with its inaugural session, closing June 13 with an awards ceremony at Madrid’shistorical Matadero cultural space.
One of eight features in work in progress, the creative documentary “Gods of Stone” (“Deuses de Pedra”) by the Spanish Iván Castiñeiras Gallego scooped thenew Comunidad de Madrid award and its €15,000 ($16,000)cash prize earmarked towards its post-production.
A trained cinematographer/filmmaker, graduate from ESTC in Lisbon, the Louis Lumiere School in Paris and ESCAC in Barcelona, Castiñeiras Gallego earned festival attention for his short docs “A raia”(2013) and “Where the Jungle Is” (2016).
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