The 21st Alicante Film Festival invites you to participate in the free activities of FASHION CINEMA.
Wednesday, May 22 at 5:30 PM. Round table discussion "Walking the Red Carpet, the Goyas and other film events"
This round table will address the peculiarities involved in combining the perfect shoes with the styling of actors and actresses to attend major film events. The discussion will be moderated by Manuela Laguna, with the participation of Joaquín Abellán, general director of Lodi, Mercedes Abellán, retail and communications director of Lodi, and Pepe Amat, co-owner of Magrit.
Thursday, May 23 at 5:30 PM. Masterclass "The Creative Process Through Costume Design"
A journey behind the scenes into the fascinating world of creating unique design pieces, where creativity and talent unite with technique to bring to life the most iconic looks. We will meet talents from our land, Alicante, such as designer Gustavo Adolfo Tari and Darsy Mogica, designer and instructor at CUE Formación.
Friday, May 24 at 6 PM. Fashion Cinema Award. Meeting with costume designer Clara Bilbao".
Costume designer, winner of three Goya Awards for Best Costume Design. Daughter of a seamstress, she graduated from the Superior Center for Design and Fashion in Madrid at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, specializing in scenic costume design. In 1994 she began working in audiovisuals and in 1996 she made her debut as a costume designer with the short film "The Eight O'Clock Train". In 1998 she designed the costumes for her first feature film, Quince. She received recognition with "Blackthorn", with which she won her first Goya Award for Best Costume Design. In 2013 she directed the short film Efímera, which received the Jury Prize at the Medina del Campo Film Week. In 2016 she won her second Goya Award for Best Costume Design for "Nobody Wants the Night" by Isabel Coixet. In 2019 she won the Goya Award for Best Costume Design again for "The Shadow of the Law", for which she received the Maestro Mateo Award for Best Costume Design.
May 18-25. Exhibitions
"Movie Shoes". The exhibition features 12 pairs of shoes that will immerse us in iconic films such as Gandhi, Memoirs of a Geisha, Titanic, Rocky, and The Woman in Red. We will be able to see the ballet flats that Audrey Hepburn wore and that gave their name to the famous "Sabrina flats". The two-tone dance shoes worn by Fred Astaire in "Swing Time" with Ginger Rogers and observe up close the details of the footwear from "Dangerous Liaisons". We will have the shoes from Viridiana, a film by Luis Buñuel with Fernando Rey and Silvia Pinal.
"Costume Design Sketches by Clara Lago" Exhibition of original sketches by designer Clara Bilbao. We will be able to see the sketches from the film Nobody Wants the Night by Isabel Coixet (2016) with which she won her 2nd Goya dressing Juliette Binoche and The Shadow of the Law, Nobody Wants the Night, Teresa, among others.
"Dresses Made of Paper". Dresses from the films Blackthorn, The Shadow of the Law and Teresa by Clara Bilbao. The Apple of My Eye, The Others, While War Lasts and Midnight in Paris by Sonia Grande made of paper by EASDA students.
