Valladolid (EFE).- The Valladolid International Film Week (Seminci) has a new director: José Luis Cienfuegos (Avilés, 1964), who will replace Javier Angulo at the helm of the auteur film festival after he resigned after fifteen years in front of it.
According to EFE sources of the process, the technical commission has unanimously chosen Cienfuegos, current director of the Seville European film festival, who will now leave to take charge of a Seminci that already exceeds its 67 editions.
José Luis Cienfuegos, the new director of Seminci, in a file image. EFE
With a degree in Psychology, Cienfuegos has also been the director of the Gijón film festival between 1995 and 2012, from where he made the leap to the Seville Festival.
selective process
Last January, the Municipal Foundation of Culture (FMC) of the Valladolid City Council convened the selection process to fill the position of director of the Seminci, where the applicants had to present a draft proposal for the direction, management and administration of the festival for a Minimum period of two years and accrediting an experience of at least five full years in tasks of direction or coordination of film festivals.
As described in the process, Cienfuegos will also be the one who assumes the ordinary representation of the festival, directs the work teams that provide their services to the event and proposes to the Governing Council of the FMC the action plans for the event, both for the days of the festival as, if so considered, for extension activities in time.EFE