“IN JUST THREE YEARS, FIMUCITÉ HAS BECOME
AN INTEREST OF THE WORLDWIDE FILM INDUSTRY AND PRESS”
16/07/2009
Pedro Mérida, producer of the Festival, points out the achievements made by it in just three years
With the third edition of the Festival starting next Monday, FIMUCITÉ 3, sponsored by Cabildo Insular, sees its future with optimism “because in just three years it has become an interest for the worldwide film industry and press”.
These are words from Pedro Mérida, producer of this essential film music appointment which will finish on Sunday 26. According to Mérida, the reasons of this meteoric growth lie in being a festival related to the audiovisual world and located in an underexploited field such as film music”. Also, it is true that “the most buoyant film industries have shown a great interest in collaborating with the festival”, keeping what the producer calls “a marketing awareness”. This means “the possibility of premiering some works in Tenerife”, or “bringing international composers whose music is being performed for the first time with a symphonic orchestra, such is the case of Trevor Rabin or Sean Callery.
FIMUCITÉ is an “European initiative open to the world”, but also “a door for the promotion of the cultural values of the Canaries, especially of Tenerife”, assures Mérida. He also adds “we want to show the world that we have management quality and enough resources to establish the island as a place of reference for film music composers”
One of the most important successes achieved by Fimucité, according to Mérida, is that Varese Sarabande, one of the most important film music record labels, “has committed to bring out parts of our concerts” or that “studies like Fox have asked us the license for some of the Festival material”, as, for example, the one included in the seventh season of the worldwide famous TV series “24”.
“We are also –continues Mérida- the only Festival in the world with its own editorial line, this year supported with the publication of the book “Alien, the Biomechanical Symphony”, written by some experts. “Last year, 2001, the Music of the Future was the first book about film music published by this kind of Festival”, says the producer. And he adds that, at the same time, “we have been the first to consolidate, within its artistic aspect, a central topic that influences the visual and musical aesthetics of the Festival”, and that this year is focused in the 30th anniversary of the Alien premiere.
FIMUCITÉ 3 has been possible thanks to the sponsorship of Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, Canary Islands Government and Santa Cruz de Tenerife and La Laguna City Councils, as well as to the cooperation of a great number of public and private entities.