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The Competitive Official Selection of the Short Film Week’s 21st edition was made up of 41 short films that competed to win one of the 8 Madrid en Corto prizes, which ensure that they will be promoted in festivals and other industry events in Spain and around the world. The Community of Madrid also grants prizewinners direct entry onto the presentation list for the Goya Awards. The main venues used in this edition were the Bellas Artes cinema and the Alcalá 31 Hall, as well as the 68 municipalities in the region that the event’s programming reached.
 
In addition to its usual competition, the event featured a varied program of academic activities that dealt with the different aspects of short film production, together with the 14^th Professional Meeting of Short Film Producers and Scriptwriters, a meeting point for scriptwriters who are looking for production companies or companies involved in the production of a short film in order to discover and drive a new production. All this took place as part of the 3rd edition of the Professional Forum, which has been held since 2017. This year it paid a special tribute to Arantxa Echevarría, the winner of Best New Director for her first film Carmen y Lola at the most recent edition of the Goya Awards, and the director of various short films that have participated in previous editions of the event, such as Panchito, Don Enrique de Guzmán, De noche y de pronto, and Presienta.
 
In 2019, the Short Film Week paid homage to Colombia, highlighting the growth of the film and audiovisual industries in the country arising from institutional measures and emerging talent. The work of Colombian filmmakers was celebrated through 3 extra special sessions: a retrospective session with Colombian short films from 2006 onwards as the protagonist; another session dedicated to BOGOSHORTS, one of the leading Latin American festivals; and finally, a session of short films from Colombian universities that were scripted with short films produced by Spanish film schools.  
 
The section entitled Corto Colombiano -una ley que dispara todo- (Colombian shorts- a law that triggers everything) was devoted to the most emblematic short films that have benefited from the 814 Film Law. Ciudad Crónica (2006) by Klych López; Rojo Red (2008) by Juan Manuel Betancourt; Marina, la esposa del pescador (2009) by Carlos Hernández; Salomé (2011) by Laura Mora and Los retratos (2012) by Iván Gaona were screened as part of this group.
 
BOGOSHORTS –faith in short films, faith in film, faith in the city is a set of short films that have been exhibited in the different activities of the BOGOSHORTS movement and the festival. Here, Rodri (2012) by Franco Lolli, Solecito (2013) by Oscar Ruiz Navia, Leidi (2014) by Simón Mesa Soto and Genaro (2016) by Jesús Reyes and Andrés Porras were screened.
 
Finally, Voces - Bogoshorts Film Market (BFM), was a taste of some of the most representative work from Colombian university students: Menguante by Melisa Zapata, Medias blancas by Andrés Isaza, Fantasmas by León Mateo Escovar and El dibujo de un pez by Juana Castro. The Colombian short films established a discourse with the short films from film schools in Madrid, with the presentation of the first steps of Madrid film students who are competing for the Community of Madrid’s Film School Prize.
 
The sessions were presented by Jaime Manrique, the director of BOGOSHORTS, and Laura Muñoz, a representative of Voces (a program that unites Colombia’s university short film festivals). They were accompanied by several members of the BOGOSHORTS organization: the programme director Felipe Montoya and the programmers Juan Carlos Concha and José Luis Urriago, together with Mónica Molano, the director of the National Film School (ENACC), and the organizers of ESTUCINE, the national gathering of film students that takes place as part of the Bogoshorts Film Market.