The Tenerife International Film Music Festival will celebrate a new edition in September (21st - 29th).
The Tenerife Auditorium will host the European Première of a spectacular live-to-picture concert: “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”.
A selection of film classics related to "Alien Encounters" will be played at the Festival’s Closing Night Gala, performed by the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra.
The Tenerife International Film Music Festival (FIMUCITÉ) will be celebrating its twelfth edition from September 21st to 29th, 2018. The Festival will be devoted to the impressive and acclaimed film genre of UFO sightings and aliens invasions. The event will be held thanks to the sponsorship of Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, the Canary Islands Government, and Santa Cruz de Tenerife and La Laguna councils.
On Friday, September 28th, at 8:00 pm, Auditorio de Tenerife will host a spectacular live-to-picture concert conducted by the Festival artistic director, renowned composer and conductor Diego Navarro.The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, the Tenerife Film Choir and the Children’s Choir of Santa Cruz Music Conservatory will perform John William’s legendary score for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1978). Steven Spielberg's masterpiece, which won eight Oscars nominations including Best Music, can be enjoyed for the first time, since it will be the European Première of this unique live experience of both seeing the movie screened on the big screen and listening to the music performed live simultaneously. Moreover, this will also be the first symphonic live-to-picture concert to take place in the Canary Islands.
FIMUCITÉ 12 Closing Night Gala, entitled “The truth is out there” as a tribute to the popular TV series “The X-Files”, will be held on September 29th at 7:00 pm, at Auditorio de Tenerife. Exciting scores from the UFO sighting and aliens invasions subgenre will be played at this concert. Soundtracks from movies such as “Mars Attack” (1996, composed by Danny Elfman), “Contact” (1997, Alan Silvestri), “Abyss”(1989, Alan Silvestri), “Starman” (1989, Jack Nietzche), “The thing” (1982, Ennio Morricone) or even “The X-Files” (1993, Mark Snow) will be part of the repertoire.
FIMUCINEMA, the competitive section of the festival, will celebrate its sixth edition in 2018 awarding the best scores in three categories: feature film, documentary and short film. Contest call will be open shortly. Likewise, a new edition of FIMUCITÉ Film Scoring Academy will take place during the Festival week. These activities, free of charge, are aimed to audiovisual composers, both students and professionals, interested in specialized training.
More details on FIMUCITÉ 12’s concerts and program will be announced soon, as well as the names of the guests and professionals to be honored by the Festival.