The Spanish contest manager will be on the jury and a series will cover the best of his selection. Spain will have a notable presence at the II Festival Latinoamericano de Cortometrajes (Second Annual Latin American Short Film Festival), which the "Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Cultura" (Venezuelan Culture Ministry) is organizing in the Venezuelan city of Barinas, through the Amazonia Films Distributor, with collaboration of the Cinemateca Nacional, the Italian Institute of Culture in Venezuela, and UNICEF. This important competition begins this Thursday and runs through August 2, with 25 short films from 7 countries in it Official Section, all of them in Latin America. The international jury is composed of the Mexican Ana Paulina Castellanos, maker of three short films (Rutina, Cochinadas and Una muerte menor), who is presently working on the script for her first feature film, the Spanish Luis Mariano Gonzalez, with a degree in audiovisual communication, director of the Alcala de Henares festival and chairman of the coordinating committee of festivals of Madrid, and the veteran Venezuelan film-maker Enver Cordido (Cuando quiero llorar no lloro, Cronica de un Subversivo Latinoamericano, La Quema de Judas, among others). This Latin American cinematographic celebration, which will be free to the public, is presenting eight parallel sections which will offer a broad worldwide view of short film format expression and tighten connections between important countries. “It is through this medium that we will show Spanish short films selected by the ALCINE Festival of Alcala de Henares, a sampling of short films of the French Clermont Ferrand Festival, the most prestigious in Europe in the short film genre, Italian films of only one minute in length, a series dedicated to the animated works of the Chilean Tomas Welss, accompanied by a workshop, short films for children made by children with the support of UNICEF, a sampling of the Venezuelan animator Armando Arce, also accompanied by a workshop and, finally, a retrospective tribute to the Venezuelan film-maker Jesus Enrique Guedez, who recently passed away”, stated Erasmo Ramirez, Festivals Director of Amazonia Films. For Ramirez, this fiesta in the plains city will be testimony to youth cinema that which tell convincing, funny, powerful, moving and dramatic stories which will seduce Western banality. It will be a spectacle full of emotion and joy for the pleasure of the public”, he said. The "Fundacion Distribuidora de Cine Amazonia Films" (Amazonia Films Film Distribution Foundation) organizes three important cinematographic events in Venezuela annually: the Documentary Festival, the third year event of which took place last May in Caracas, this Latin American Short Film Festival, now in its second year, and, finally, the new Southern Film Festival, devoted to feature-length fiction in the coastal city of Puerto la Cruz and will be held from 26th October to 1st November this year.