Coordinated by Alberto Olivar

The Film Festival in the Classrooms is a new project of the International Film Festival of Huesca. Its purpose is to introduce the Festival to secondary school students in order to promote interest in cinema among young people, encouraging them to develop the wish to create or consume cinema from a perspective different from the usual.

The institutes Pirámide, Lucas Mallada, Sierra de Guara, Ramón y Cajal, and Escuela de Arte, located in the city of Huesca, along with Martínez Vargas from Barbastro, are the first brave ones to participate in the project, each of them producing a short film.

For secondary school students, aged between 15 and 17 years old, this project allows them to have their first experience as actors, scriptwriters, cameramen, sound recordists, cinematographers… introducing new present and future challenges into their lives. The coordinating teachers generously give their time and knowledge to accompany and help these future movie stars.

Technical engineer and secondary education teacher since 1998. Coordinator for 4 years of the educational program Classroom Cinema and coordinator of its website. Teacher and director of school short films. Theater director. Coordinator and director of Coup de Théâtre at IES Pirámide for 4 years. Theater and film actor. Teacher at INTEF, teaching courses on the history of cinema. He has published several books on cinema and education. Designer and curator of the exhibition Goya: precursor of the Lumière Brothers, exhibited at the film festivals of Huesca and Gijón, which is currently a traveling exhibition of the Diputación de Huesca. Co-creator of the project on Luis Eduardo Aute’s film Un perro llamado dolor (A Dog Called Pain), selected by the Prado Museum for its teacher workshops “Cinema as an Educational Resource.” He is also a teacher of film workshops for children and teenagers.