The organisers of the Gibara International Low-Budget Film Festival (FICGIBARA), in alliance with the Churubusco Studios of Mexico, announce participation in the section Cine en Construcción Humberto Solás 2026, a competition whose objective is to support audiovisual projects that are in the post-production stage, according to the festival’s website.
Until the 15th of February of the present year, all filmmakers may send their projects, taking into account that feature films of fiction, documentary or animation of any nationality in the post-production stage will be received, provided they have at least a first edited cut; in the case that the entered work is not spoken in the Spanish language, it will be indispensable to send a subtitled copy.
The registration process must be done electronically by filling out a form indispensable for the project’s admission —available on the website itself— in order to provide via this route important data about the work and a link that allows the Selection Committee to view the audiovisual projects.
A document with a detailed description of the film’s needs must be attached to the form; it will equally describe the alliances or agreements already subscribed for the continuity of the post-production work, and the international commitments acquired.
Once the time for judgement concludes, the Cine en Construcción Humberto Solás 2026 Award will be announced on the 15th of March, whose result —final— will be decided by recognised national and foreign figures of cinema, audiovisuals and the arts, also advanced the FICGIBARA website.
Regarding the Grand Prize, this will have a value of three hundred thousand Mexican pesos, which will be paid in post-production services of image and sound to the selected work; thus facilitating that the final product meets all the requirements and parameters for its exhibition on international stages.
The Cine en Construcción Humberto Solás 2026 competition integrates into the dynamics of the XX edition of FICGIBARA 2026, to be celebrated from the 14th to the 18th of April next, the year in which the filmmaker of classics like Lucía (1968), Cecilia (1981), Un hombre de éxito (1986), El siglo de las luces (1993), Miel para Oshún (2001) and Barrio Cuba (2005), would have reached his 85th anniversary.
For the occasion, the alliance with one of the most important institutions in the history of Mexican cinema, the octogenarian Churubusco Studios —feted with the Coral de Honor during the most recent International Festival of New Latin American Cinema— will allow supporting audiovisual projects in development; and speaks, once again, of the unions that continue to be forged to boost creation within the region’s seventh art.
