Castiel quits at Malaga festival
Event is focused on Spanish filmmaking
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The last two editions in particular served to bring down the flag on a new generation of Spanish directors.
At a press conference in Malaga Thursday morning, Castiel declared that he was stepping down for “purely and exclusively personal motives.”
Castiel will continue as president of the Spain Film Commission.
Founded by Castiel in 1998, the Malaga Spanish Film Festival was one of a myriad of events backed by Spanish regional authorities that have sought to promote national or regional filmmaking, in Malaga’s case films from any part of Spain.
But while other events have fallen by the wayside, Malaga has supersized, receiving powerful support from both national broadcasters and national producers via Spain’s Fapae producers’ federation.
The responsibilities of running the festival, as Castiel pointed out in his resignation speech, are far more onerous than overseeing a single event.
Before April’s festival proper, Solomon also ran early May’s TV Malaga, a TV fiction showcase, and the multi-stranded Malaga Markets, which this year run Nov. 30-Dec. 3.
Castiel’s substitute will be confirmed in the next three months, Francisco de la Torre, the mayor of Malaga, announced.
