Mexico's largest film festival and one of the most important platforms for emerging filmmakers in Latin America.
During the past eighteen years GIFF has established itself as the most important platform for young filmmakers in Latin America, each year bringing upcoming talents together with world-renowned experts of the moving image. In 2014 GIFF received 3,421 films from 118 countries in competition, while hosting over 120,000 total audience members who over 10 days enjoyed more than 400 films from 10am until 4am in 21 venues; including such unusual spaces as the subterranean streets and tunnels beneath Guanajuato Capital city as well as in both cities’ graveyards.
The festival hosts an annual International Pitching Market, summoning international producers, distributors and diverse film financing institutions from around the world who are interested in participating in co-productions with the top Mexican projects currently in development.
During the past eighteen years GIFF has established itself as the most important platform for young filmmakers in Latin America, each year bringing upcoming talents together with world-renowned experts of the moving image. In 2014 GIFF received 3,421 films from 118 countries in competition, while hosting over 120,000 total audience members who over 10 days enjoyed more than 400 films from 10am until 4am in 21 venues; including such unusual spaces as the subterranean streets and tunnels beneath Guanajuato Capital city as well as in both cities’ graveyards.
The festival hosts an annual International Pitching Market, summoning international producers, distributors and diverse film financing institutions from around the world who are interested in participating in co-productions with the top Mexican projects currently in development.
Contact
Guanajuato International Film Festival
San Miguel de Allende, MX