Cazorla will be home to a Miguel Picazo film campus that will include Saura and Armendariz

The Jaen municipality in Cazorla will be hosting a film campus to honor Miguel Picazo. Carlos Saura, Montxo Armendariz and Pablo Berger, along with the production company Puy Oria, will be present.

This activity was organized by the City Council of Cazorla and the Diputacion de Jaen. It aims to promote this municipality and its natural enclaves in future filming. This year's inaugural cultural program will be launched at the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, Madrid.

Juan Angel Perez, the deputy for Culture and Sports and Antonio Jose Rodriguez, the mayor of Cazorla gave a description of this campus. Thirty students were selected from those who presented their candidacies to take part in the Department of Culture of Cazorla City Hall on next July 1.

This announcement marks the Diputacion's "second important step in its strategy of supporting cinema, a promise that began a long while ago, 27 years back, and that is reflected by the organization of activities like the Encounters With Spanish Cinema or the Sample of Unpublished Spanish Cinema" Perez highlighted.

These and other cinematographic activities are being added to "this campus" by the Cazorla City Council. The Deputy for Culture and Sports explained that the courses will "start on July 17 and will allow participating students to train with the best teachers such as Pablo Berger and Gracia Querejeta, Montxo Armendariz, Puy Oria and others". Carlos Saura will host an inaugural conference on Miguel Picazo.

He concluded that this campus would allow him to "once again have the opportunity to transform the province of Jaen and, more specifically, Cazorla, with its natural park at its head, into one the epicenters for the seventh art during July's second half." Juan Angel Perez.

This innovative cultural initiative will project the municipality and its surrounding areas throughout the country. It will attract top professionals in the film industry and help to train young professionals.

Cazorla will host a first class cinematographic workshop between July 17th and 25. Pablo Berger will present a workshop entitled 'Writing in Images', while Montxo Armendariz, Puy Oria and Puy Oria will be directing another entitled From the Idea to the Screen'. Finally, Gracia Querejeta, will take the workshop titled 'Interpretation Before the Camera'. From improvisation to dialog.