Festival Internacional de Cine de Quito

The Quito International Film Festival (FICQ) aims to promote auteur cinema to a new generation. It has been created as a festival to discover new talents and trends. The festival was founded in 2016 by Cine Udla, the film school rooted in Universidad de Las Américas, in Quito. FICQ is a festival mainly organized by students and their professors. The festival counts with five venues and has a young and fresh atmosphere. Its jury members come from all over the world; in previous editions the Festival has had the pleasure of welcomng distinguished guests such as Canadian-Mexican director Nicolás Pereida, directors Claudia Huaiquimilla (Chile), Kiki Álvarez (Cuba), Florencia Persia (Argentina), Jorge Forero (Colombia), Roberto Doveris (Chile), Laura Amelia Guzmán (Dominican Republic), Emiliano Cunha (Brazil), Mark Schlichter (Germany) and Sebastián Cordero (Ecuador), New York film critic Ruth Goldberg, producers Rich Henrich (USA) and Nicole Kellerhals (German), script-writer Abel Arcos (Cuba), composer Daniel Hidalgo (Mexico), director and film-critic Pedro Adrián Zuluaga (Colombia) and film editor Ana Pfaff (Spain). FICQ also promotes parallel activities, which combine masterclasses, screenings and Q&As in order to encourage the cultural and artistic scene of Ecuador.