Dread Best Children and Youth Film Festival in Madrid

Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 07:23 GMTLONDON - The film "Dreamer" which is the sequel to the film "Warriors of the Rainbow" won the award for best film category of teenagers in the International Film Festival Children and Adolescents in Madrid, Spain. Third Secretary Embassy in Madrid, Krisnawati Desi Purnawestri, in his statement to the Between London, on Tuesday, said the awards presented at the closing of the festival received actor Lukman Sardi who attended the festival as an invitation, along with Salman Aristo, playwright Dreamer.
He said the screening of the movie "The Dreamer", the Indonesian community in Madrid too much to watch, including Ambassador Adiyatwidi Adiwoso Asmady with Embassy staff in Madrid. In addition to the movie "The Dreamer" which was translated into Spanish, "El So'ador", a movie called "platforms" the work of director Ravi Bharwani also be representative of Indonesia in the festival.
The movie The Dreamer competed in the teen movie category, competing with other films from the United States, France, Russia, and Turkey, while the platforms is a movie that is not contested invitation. At this festival the general public in Madrid to watch the films genre of children and youth from over 15 countries around the world who played in the Dream Theatre, Palacio de Hielo Madrid, for free.
The system itself is conducted by the judging panel consisted of four people who come from the Spanish film industry, namely Angeles Chica Perez, Jose Diaz de Espada y Galán, Oscar Peyrou, and Carlos Céspedes, supported by a questionnaire filled out by the audience who came from various levels of age .
The two Indonesian films are each played twice during the festival, with audiences numbering about 300 for every film. On the last day of Indonesian film screenings, art angklung also displayed interactively by the Indonesian community in Madrid.
From the number of spectators who attended showed appreciation to the people of Spain against Indonesian films is quite high. This is not surprising considering this is the third time Indonesia's participation in this festival. In 2008 the movie Garage representing Indonesia, while in 2009 the film Laskar Pelangi also competed in the category of children's films.
Ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain Adiyatwidi Adiwoso Asmady said the acquisition of this award as an opportunity to introduce Indonesia to the people of Spain through the films of Indonesia. Indonesian film industry is more advanced with the technique and type of an increasingly diverse, it can be a means of "soft power diplomacy" to further open the international world insight about Indonesia and its potential, he said.
Hoped Indonesia would be a lot of movies that follow the international film festivals, not only the genre of children and adolescents, but is also intended for all walks of life.


SOURCE : REPUBLIKA