For the past ten years the Expresion en Corto International Film Festival, Mexico’s largest competitive Film Festival and one of the most prestigious of its kind in Latin America, has been held during the final week of July in the two Mexican colonial cities of San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato, Mexico.
The festival offers a unique and dynamic platform that celebrates the next generation of filmmakers, which has earned us the distinction as the mavericks and trend setters of the industry.
As a state-sponsored, Non-profit organization and cultural event that does not charge admission to its viewing audience, Expresion en Corto has an estimated attendance of over 80,000 total audience members from over 70 participating countries. The festival presents a variety of films and activities at NO COST to the visiting swarms of film fanatics, including the screening of over 400 films from 10am until 4am each day in 18 venues, which include such unusual locations as: the Jardin Principal (main square) of San Miguel de Allende; the classical open-air staircase of the University of Guanajuato; the subterranean streets and tunnels beneath the city of Guanajuato where Underground film is screened; as well as Horror films in Guanajuato’s infamous Museum of the Mummies of Guanajuato and both cities’ graveyards.
The festival also hosts an annual International Pitching Market, bringing together international producers, distributors and diverse film financing institutions from around the world together with the top 10 Mexican feature film and documentary projects in development at this time.
Each year Expresion en Corto contends with the participation of a guest country of honor and presents the best of that country’s film. In previous years Canada, Spain, Germany, Brazil, France and the United States have all been selected as Spotlight Countries. For this year’s eleventh edition of the festival, held from July 18th-27th, we are delighted to welcome India.
All this in addition to hosting the largest International competition in the country as well as an assortment of workshops, conferences, Women in Film and Television luncheons and tributes to both Mexican and international A-list filmmakers in attendance.