Mexico City International Film Festival Explained

Mexico City International Film Festival, or FICC (Festival Internacional de Cine en la Ciudad de México) for its initials in Spanish, was an annual film festival that began in February 2011.^{[1] [2]}

It quickly become one of the most important film festivals in Latin America. It was hosted by Cinemark, one of the three dominant movie theater chains in Mexico. It lasted two weeks and programmed sections on documentary features, fiction, worldwide premieres, retrospectives, and global tendencies in cinema. The jury was composed of important figures of the film industry worldwide.^[3]

In the 1st edition of 2011 it programmed documentary retrospectives on MUNAL, a Cuban film retrospective.^{[4] [5]}

See also

• Mexico International Short Film Festival
• Film festivals in North and Central America

Notes and References

1. CineCapital Festival Internacional de Cine en la Ciudad de México . Guadalupe. DFinitivo. Jan 27, 2011 . Sep 20, 2011.
2. Alistan el primer festival internacional de cine en la ciudad de méxico, FICCMéxico 2011 . Conaculta. Jan 25, 2011 . Sep 20, 2011.
3. FICCMÉXICO, Festival Internacional de Cine de la Ciudad de México . Travel by Mexico. Jan 4, 2011 . Sep 20, 2011.
4. Festival Internacional de Cine en la Ciudad de México. Imcine.gob.mx. Feb 4, 2011. Sep 20, 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110306000257/http://www.imcine.gob.mx/festival-internacional-de-cine-en-la-ciudad-de-mxico.html. 2011-03-06.
5. Realizarán primer Festival Internacional de Cine de la Ciudad de México. https://web.archive.org/web/20121016052052/http://www.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias2011/d9cff78f9e4c88e6e0efd703f42c180c. dead. October 16, 2012. DPA. Milenio Newspaper. Sep 15, 2010. Sep 20, 2011.