The dream child of 10 Basque businessmen who hoped to prolong San Sebastián’s summer season into late September, the San Sebastian Film Festival was born on Sept. 21, 1953. Presented by bullf…
The dream child of 10 Basque businessmen who hoped to prolong San Sebastián’s summer season into late September, thePresented by bullfighter Mario Cabré, who romanced Ava Gardner, and comprising just 19 films, won by “La guerra de Dios,” directed by Rafael Gil., rescued from a potential Republican firing squad by Luis Buñuel not so many years before. Fireworks, bullfights and quayside parties regaled the film week.
The modern festival’s foundations were first laid by Spain’s ‘70s transition from dictatorship to democracy. “Previously banned filmed are screened. The festival begins to connect to new times,” says Jose Luis Rebordinos, San Sebastian’s current director. Another before-and-after was the appointment in 1986 of El País film critic Diego Galán as festival artistic director. Galán inaugurates the Donostia Award for Hollywood stars, big-screen sessions at San Sebastian’s near 3,000-seat Velodrome,
Abetted by Manuel Pérez Estremera, a future festival director and then TVE exec, Galán turns San Sebastian into Europe’s first big festival to reach out boldly to Latin America, screening five features from the region in its main Zabaltegi sidebar in 1987. Olaciregui also persuades Spanish producers to screen films at San Sebastian en mass. For three decades, its FIAPF A” category pulled in 1956, 1963 and 1980-84, San Sebastian wavered between its status as a general festival and becoming a specialised event. It strong emphasis on Latin America and Spain allows it be both.
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