“At three o’clock”, “Tides” and “Shut up, Moon”, winners of the short film contest.
Audiovisuals “At three o’clock”, “Tides” and “Shut up, Luna” have won the first, second and third prizes respectively in the competition Up-to-the-minute movies in the framework of the Festival Making of fest in collaboration with the Gandia Campus of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV).
The awards ceremony was presided over by Ricardo Torres, organizer of the contest, and Vicenç Almenar, director of the Gandia Campus, who highlighted the creativity, narrative sensitivity and technical quality of the works presented by young audiovisual creators.
The contest, open to the general public, consisted in presenting a one-minute short film with the city of Gandia as the only location.
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At three o’clock, by Ivis Alessia Gonzales Huaman, Veronica A. Novoa Villadiego, Manuela Sofía Ortega Calle, Mikaela Troya Castillo, Lucia Montilla Ramírez and Neo Ramírez Ibáñez, won the first prize of 500 euros. The short film deals with longing and loneliness on special dates, showing how emotional distance can exist even when accompanied through a screen. The work was born from the personal experiences of its creators and seeks to transmit them through audiovisual language.
The second prize, worth 300 euros, went to Tides, a project by Victoria Barahona Serrano, with the acting collaboration of Luna Chávez Melgar and Claudia G. Lozano. Set in the fishing port of Grau de Gandia and recorded in vertical format, the short film reflects on the distance between two friends through a conversation marked by nostalgia and absence.
The third prize, worth 200 euros, went to Shut up, Luna. The work directed by Liberto Blanes Hernández and Sarah Silva Benzaquen, counts with the collaboration of Andy Serna Gahete, Néstor Cloquell Vidal, Carmen Casino Blázquez, Eduardo De Cubas Regües, Feluca Díaz Cuyás and a large cast of extras. Shot on campus, the short film proposes an intense representation of anxiety, posing it as a constant presence that directly challenges the viewer.
With this initiative, Gandia Campus reinforces its commitment to emerging talent and for the audiovisual as a tool for creative expression and social reflection, consolidating Gandia as a space of impulse for young filmmakers.