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October 2008
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October deadline:
NEW YORK SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

MAR DEL PLATA SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

November early deadlines:
LOS ANGELES SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

PHIL ADELPHIA DOCUMENTARY & FICTION FESTIVAL

Deadlines are for registration, you have 30 days more to submit the copy of your film.

Somebody has robbed forty pumpkins to Juan the Buscabeatas, an humble farmer. Determined to find them, he goes to the village market and soon he localizes his fruits in a stall.
"The Stub Book" is an adaptation from the homonym creation of the andalusian writer Pedro Antonio de Alarcon. The tale about the humble farmer looking for his robbed pumpinks is a local tradition in Rota, where there are a few real mayetos.
The film is built on a true story and filmed on its real locations. The old man, here called Anders, was a close friend of mine who was brutally evacuated from the city and his flat by his cynical property-owner. We filmed the café scene in the place where Anders was forced to sign the contract after having been offered a cup of coffee and a piece of cake. Sadly enough Anders died some years later from depression.
But basically the film is about fatherhood, a subject that often has been highlighted in my books and films. I think our parents, present or absent, having a crucial impact to our choices and values in life. I especially focus on insufficient relations and what consequences they might have. I do not analyse or define solutions for the humanity, but tell stories from my own and some other people's experiences.
The Annual Program Without Frontiers Award has been granted in the two former editions of this A Class FIAPF Film Festival, and it has accomplished it's goal: the Argentinean directors who won, Cristobal Braun Mesples in 2006, and Fermin Valeros in 2007, got a strong international recognition as well as support for their next projects.
It is an honour for our institution to give out once again our award to the Best Short Film from Argentina on the 23rd Mar del Plata International Film Festival.

Congratulations to JAVIER BALAGUER for his film "ORIUNDOS DE LA NOCHE", winner of the Special Prize to Best Documentary Film, at the 2008 Philadelphia Documentary & Fiction Festival.

Sincerely,

 Director
Carlos Martinez
Annual Program Without Frontiers