El 6 de junio nace en Barcelona un nuevo specialized film festival in Asia. Casa Asia Film Week was held in Girona Cinemas city and headquarters of Casa Asia and aims to become a major cultural event for the dissemination of the best films produced in Asia. Thus, the festival, to be presented during an intense week thirty different genres of films, took over the renowned festival BAFF, which announced the closing of its doors in 2010.
The festival is divided into two parts: it starts with the Portal Asia (6 to 8 June in Casa Asia) cultural activities and films and documentaries on English film made in Asia, and continues with the festival itself Casa Asia Film Week (9 to 12 June), with tapes that can be seen in the three rooms of Girona Cinemas. Also, projections fall within three different sections: "Section Officer" -in Asian films competing recent production, "" Panorama ", which includes a selection of the best Asian productions in the last two years and finally, "Retrospective" "devoted to a director or a filmography of film history on this continent.
The cinematography of Hong Kong will have a role in this first edition, with the cooperation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Affairs Office (HKET0). Two of the best Hong Kong's production this year will serve to open and close the event: June 9, Assassin Reign of John Woo and Chow-bin Su to the opening, and on 12 June, The Stool Pigeon Dante Lam, for the closure.
The event also features two special sessions unpublished on the big screen: a tribute to Japan, with the screening of the blockbuster Space Battleship Yamato filmmaker Takashi yamakazi, supplied by the distributor Mediatres study, and another with the premiere of the film China Confucius , played by Chow Yun-Fat.
Durian The Gold Award also reborn in this tournament and will distinguish the best film in the official section, after deliberation by a jury comprising international experts and film critics.
Asian film this week is organized by Casa Asia and has programming and Mike Hall Angel Hostench the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia , as well as the overall coordination of Glory Enrique Fernandez and CineAsia Garcelán of . Directs the contest Menene Gras Balaguer, head of the Department of Culture and Exhibition Asia House.
Casa Asia Film Week, the only specialist in Asian film festival that is celebrated today in our country aspires to become one of the best Asian film festivals in Europe and a meeting point with other festivals that have a clear Asian accent such as Cannes, Venice, San Sebastian, Berlin, Locarno, Udine Far East Film Festival, Rotterdam, Cines del Sur de Granada, Las Palmas, the SEMINCI and Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia.
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