LesGaiCineMad

LesGaiCineMad, Festival Internacional de Cine LGBT de Madrid (Madrid International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival) is an LGBT film festival held in Madrid, Spain, and organised by the Fundación Triángulo. The inaugural edition was held in 1996.[1][2] With an estimated audience of more than 14,000 spectators, the festival is well-attended by members of the Community of Madrid. It is covered by the Spanish Press in San Sebastian and Malaga.[2]

LesGaiCineMad Film Festival
LocationMadrid, Spain
Founded1996
LanguageInternational
Websitehttp://www.lesgaicinemad.com

LesGaiCineMad has a digital catalogue of more than 3,000 independent movies and is considered to be a major archive of films on the subject of affective diversity in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries.

LesGaiCineMad created and leads the CineLGBT Network, which is the most important network of LGBT film festivals in Spanish speaking countries. It involves more than 30 festivals from Latin America and Spain, which receive support and economic aid in order to organize their own activities.

LesGaiCineMad Spanish Film Market (SFM)

LesGaiCineMad Spanish Film Market (SFM) was an event that ran in Spain until 2009 as part of LesGaiCineMad - Madrid International Lesbian, Gay & Transsexual Film Festival.

  • It was a marketplace where producers and sales companies of the films in the SFM catalogue licensed films to distributors.
  • It was a booking place for international film festival programmers to find content for their own film festivals.
  • It was a training event for independent film production and distribution.
  • It was a meeting point for members of the independent cinema community to have professional meetings, parties and receptions.
  • It was not audience oriented; only accredited industry members were able to attend SFM events.

See also

References

  1. Sánchez Guerrero, Alberto (October 2005). "LesGaiCineMad". Especiales. Plataforma 21. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
  2. "LESGAICINEMAD: The Madrid Gay and Lesbian Film Festival". Film Festival World. Archived from the original on 2 November 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2011.


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