The IES Enric Valor of El Campello Triumphs in the Alicante Film Festival's School Short Film Competition

Students from the Enric Valor Institute in El Campello were prominent figures at the awards ceremony for the school short film competition organised by the Alicante Film Festival and the SEUR Foundation. They garnered two special mentions, the award for best female cast, and, as a highlight, the 'SEUR Foundation Award for Best National Short Film', one of the two financially endowed prizes.

The efforts of the teams coordinated and encouraged by music professor Rosa Isabel Torregrosa were rewarded at the Arniches Theatre in Alicante, filled with participating teams from the provinces of Alicante and Murcia, whose works were selected for the final phase.

The students travelled to Alicante accompanied by family members, Rosa Isabel Torregrosa herself, and the vice-director and Technology teacher Ana Dèlia Gisbert, who were there to support the young creators, also backed by the mayor, Juanjo Berenguer, and the councillor for Education, Dorian Gomis.

The pedagogical proposal of the Music Department at IES Enric Valor included this year, as in previous years, the production of an audiovisual work each term. The four finalist short films at the Alicante Film Festival were made in the second term of the course, focusing on the charitable collection of plastic caps.

The first joy for El Campello came early when the film 'Alberto, the Plastic Cap' was awarded a 'special mention', recognising the work of Amaya Cantó and Vera Uljanova, from the third year of ESO.

Seconds later, the short film 'The Value of a Cap', by Eva Torrins and Jean Paul Torrins, from the first and third year of ESO, received another 'special mention' from the jury.

The joy of the large delegation from El Campello in Alicante overflowed when the director of the Film Festival, Vicente Seva, announced that the award for best female cast was also going to El Campello, thanks to the work of Carla Lorenzo, Laia Esteve, Sofía Molina, and Eleonor Carretero, from the first year of ESO, who gave shape and content to the short film 'Recycling is Important'.

Twelve of the awards had already been given (25% of them to the Enric Valor Institute), and it remained to be seen which team would win the most important one, one of the two with financial endowment provided by the SEUR Foundation. The award for 'best national short film' also went to the El Campello educational centre.

This was for the film 'Caps with a Charitable Heart', a very interesting and moving work by Joan Peidró and Luca Pugliese, students from the first year of ESO, who joyfully took to the stage to collect the award.