Cinexic
Familiar Cinema
CINEXIC
Program to promote children’s cinema in Catalan throughout the territory
CineXic is a regular family film programme in Catalan. Each month, a film is screened through a tour of cinemas throughout the territory, a stable circuit of venues that are committed to Catalan cinema for the whole family. High quality productions reach places in Catalonia where until now they did not have access. The films, mostly European, are aimed at family audiences with children between 3 and 12 years old.
Òmnium Cultural promotes this project with the collaboration of MODIband and Drac Màgic, who have designed the programming, managed the rights, and distributed the films through Rita & Luca Films and Pack Màgic.
Xarxa de sales a Catalunya
De gener a maig i d’octubre a desembre
Projectes
Sala Montjuïc
Open-air film festival
Sala Montjuïc
Summer open-air film festival at Montjuïc Castle, Barcelona
Sala Montjuïc is an open-air film festival that takes place at Barcelona’s Montjuïc Castle every year. Launched in 2003, the festival gives spectators the chance to enjoy live music and films in original version, and to have a picnic dinner al fresco with friends under the stars. The programme features a selection of all-time classics, as well as recent hits, auteur films and musicals. Sala Montjuïc has become a classic of Barcelona summer nights, attracting around 30,000 spectators every year.
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Montjuïc Castle, Barcelona
From early July to mid August
More than 30,000 spectators
Festival social networks
Projects
My first festival
Auteur films for children
My first festival
International Children’s Festival in Barcelona, Madrid and other cities and towns
My First Festival is an international celebration of films for children from 2 to 12 years. The event helps to promote plural, creative cinema through a programme of works from around the world and from all periods of film history. The festival, which is aimed at family and schools audiences, pursues the goal of entertaining and educating, stimulating the imagination and encouraging creativity, as well as awakening the critical spirit. My First Festival takes place every autumn in Barcelona, Madrid and a dozen more Catalan towns and cities, acting as a showcase for recent creativity in the world of films for children, as well as a tool for learning “the cinematographic gaze” – how to enjoy movies.
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Various venues: Barcelona, Madrid and other cities and towns
Second half of November
More than 20,000 spectators
Festival social networks
Projects
Children's Film Club
Films for children
Children's Film Club
Film season for children at the community centres of Barcelona
Petit Cineclub is a family film season organised at Barcelona’s community centres (centres cívics) as part of the city’s Cultural District programme. The result is a monthly date that enables children in the different neighbourhoods of the city to discover quality films. These movies are not only entertaining, but also educational, artistic, varied, and designed to enable young and old alike to give free rein to their imagination, as well as transmitting positive values. The Petit Cineclub programme features animated films from around the world, presented by a very special character in the most enjoyable way to help young viewers to discover the magic of the cinema. Apart from taking part in activities before and after the screening, spectators also take home with them a sheet with more suggestions of things to do related to the film they have just seen. MODIband curates the programme, manages film rights, coordinates sessions with the community centres, organises the presentations and prepares written content linked to each film.
Barcelona network of community centres
From October to May
Festival social networks
Projects
We are explorers
Family films
We are explorers
Family film season at El Born Centre for Culture and Memory
An annual season of family films aimed at enabling audiences to discover the world through the “Seventh Art”. From October to March, monthly Sunday morning sessions take spectators on journeys to other cultures and historic periods through film. The sessions are introduced by Rodalmón, a passionate adventurer who helps children and families to put films into their context and leads discussion about them after the screening. MODIband designs the programme, manages the film rights and organises the presentation of each film.
"MODIband guarantees quality in their film selection… and the We Are Explorers programme attracts excellent average audience figures..."
Anna Lingua, Head of Activities, El Born Centre for Culture and Memory.
One Sunday a month from October to May
elbornculturaimemoria.barcelona.cat
Projects
L'Illa Diagonal open-air cinema
Cine al aire libre
L'Illa Diagonal open-air cinema
Open-air film season every July in the gardens of L’Illa Diagonal shopping centre
Every summer for the last 10 years, the gardens behind L’Illa Diagonal shopping centre have hosted an open-air season of films in original version. Lawns, loungers, restaurants to buy dinner, and a varied programme of feature and short films all help to make Barcelona summer nights cooler, and more fun. MODIband designs the programme, manages the film rights and produces the entire event.
“Thanks to Modiband, to the team’s capacity to program and technical mastership, Illa Diagonal’s outdoor cinema has been a success for over 10 years”
Ainhoa Izuel, Head of Marketing, Illa Diagonal shopping centre
From 6 July to 3 August 2017
2,000 spectators
Projects
Petits Tresors de Butxaca
Production of film shows
Petits Tresors de Butxaca
A musical and cinematographic show especially designed for toddlers
Do you want to enjoy a bill of specially selected short films, accompanied by music? Then this is the show for you! Seven films for all the family, accompanied by live music and singing. Don’t miss this session, full of magical fables and emotive messages!
Josep Maria Baldomà is a Barcelonan composer with long experience in writing soundtracks for film and TV. On this occasion, he has accepted the challenge put to him by My First Festival and has composed a soundtrack for the seven shorts in this session. A trio of musicians will perform his scores live in a truly magical concert full of rich and varied musical sounds and registers as the musicians play the voices of the characters in the films live.
Martí Hosta: percussion, drums, noises, vocals, dub and samplers
Viviana Suárez: double bass, guitar, vocals and dub, percussion and samplers
Josep Maria Baldomà: composition, musical direction, tapes, computer, accordion, dub and samplers
Institut Francès de Barcelona
November 18th, 2017
Projects
Films for schools
Annual film programme for schools
Films for schools
Annual film programme for schools at the Filmoteca de Catalunya (Catalan Film Institute)
The aim of the Filmoteca per a les Escoles (“Film Institute for Schools”) programme is to foster interest in the cinema among children and young people, and to form the spectators of the future while highlighting the value of Catalonia’s cinema heritage. To this end, the programme includes a range of activities aimed at all educational levels: film matinees and introductory sessions to cinematographic language, accompanied by teaching material, workshops, visits, themed routes, resources for teachers and so on. MODIband designs part of the programmes for these schools sessions and also produces the associated teaching material, as well as conducting the presentations of all the film sessions organised.
“MODIband’s rigorous, professional work within the Filmoteca per a les Escoles programme since 2011, and their My First Festival programme demonstrate that they are experts in audiovisual education, their vast experience enabling them to achieve great success”
Noemí Sas Castilleja, Education Services, Filmoteca de Catalunya
Midweek sessions for schools from October to May
More than 7,000 spectators per year
Projects
Film CosmoNights
Film and science-fiction season
Film CosmoNights
Film and science-fiction nights in Plaça de la Ciència at CosmoCaixa
Les CosmoNits és un cicle de cinema i ciència-ficció que té lloc al CosmoCaixa de Barcelona des del 2015 durant 5 setmanes. Una oportunitat per descobrir les exposicions temàtiques que acull aquest museu a l’estiu i gaudir tot seguit d’una vetllada a la fresca de cinema i música en viu. Cada any MODIband dissenya una programació temàtica de cine a mida segons les exposicions temporals, fa la programació musical i coordina la producció tècnica de l’esdeveniment.
“Excellent work. A great partner for our Science-Fiction Nights”
Cristina Smandia, Head of the Planning and Promotion Department
Del 6 de juliol al 3 d’agost de 2017
3.000 espectadors
Xarxes socials del festival:
Projectes
Young film-lovers
Family film
Young film-lovers
Regular family film programme at CaixaForum centres all over Spain
Petits Cinèfils (“Young Film-Lovers”) is a regular family film programme that MODIband organises and manages at the various CaixaForum cultural centres all over Spain. The goal of these film seasons is to encourage new audiences and film-lovers through family film sessions with added value. Petits Cinèfils film seasons are devoted to particular directors and studios around the world. Moreover, screenings are complemented by presentations given by critics and the teams that helped to make the movies. MODIband curates these programmes and prepares related texts, as well as managing film rights and coordinating the presentations with critics and directors.
"We greatly value Modiband's criterion with regards to programming films for children and for its capacity to offer end-to-end management of projects"
Cultural Activities Department, “La Caixa” Social Foundation
CaixaForum cultural centres all over Spain
Weekend sessions throughout the year
Around 5,000 spectators per year