UCL Festival of the Moving Image

The first edition of The Festival of the Moving Image, Por Primera Vez, is devoted to the audio visual culture of the Americas, celebrating the great humanist, the Nobel Prize for Literature, Gabriel García Márquez and his work in cinema, in the context of the international festivities commemorating the first Spanish edition of the novel Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967); the 40th anniversary of the New Latin American Cinema Movement, the centenary of Frida Kahlo’s birth, the end of the slave trade in the British colonies and the European contribution to the development of the Americas’ film art. The festival pays special tribute to the former Spanish cultural mentor Pilar Miró for her exceptional work.

The full festival programme is available here

The festival is hosted by the Spanish and Latin American Department and the Film Studies Programme at University College London, with the support of UCL Futures, Unison-UCL branch, The UCL Union Film&TV society and the British-Cuban Heritage Foundation.