CINEMAD is the cinematic brother of FESTIMAD. Born at the same time, in 1994, in Madrid’s Revolver Theater. Since then CINEMAD has never failed in its annual appointment with the Independent and Cult Film Festival.

Cines Renoir Film Festival is involved promoting and exhibiting short films.

Genres such as gore and animation, and successful filmmakers such as Santiago Segura, Álex de la Iglesia and Alejandro Amenábar, have found CINEMAD to be their launching platform. Other filmmakers have had similar success. Nacho Vigalondo won the contest with Snuff Movie in Cinemad 2000 and 7:35 in the Morning, a short that, after winning the 2004 edition, was nominated for the Oscar. Cobeaga Borja’s One Too Many - winner of the Madrid Positivo Prize in the 2005 edition of Cinemad - represented Spain in the 2006 Academy awards. Their careers are closely related to CINEMAD, as are the careers of other Spanish filmmakers like Paul Berger, Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza, Oscar Aibar, Borja Crespo and Koldo Serra.

Figures underground cult such as Jess Franco, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Santo, AKA the Silver Masked One, received the homage they deserved. Banned films, short and long formats, made inside and outside Spain’s borders, could be viewed without censorship of any kind. CINEMAD roots for the new, risky and raw talent. The most rare, extreme and fun shorts and features come together each year in this inimitable and delirious program.

Cinemad has premiered movies in recent festivals of directors of the stature of Martin Scorsese or Kim Ki-Duk, thus fulfilling one of its main goals: to become a venue to display and put out there new work by young filmmakers from around the world in the same program along with already established filmmakers.

Determined to have their own contest, and in collaboration with Cinemad, Cine Renoir puts in motion the"INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS CINEMA RENOIR COMPETITION"

With full-term prospects ahead, this year’s edition of the festival will give out 11,000 euros in prizes, including the opportunity that any short filmmaker would want: to see his film projected as a teaser in theaters prior to a successful film.

The shorts’ finalists will be presented between Nov. 21 and Nov. 29 as part of the XV Independent Film and Cult Film Week - Cinemad 08, with cinemas Renoir Plaza de Espana in Madrid as the headquarters of the projections.

The delivery period for candidates ends for the shorts on Oct. 31.

A jury composed of personalities from the world of film, music, television, design, advertising and art will select the best work and give out the awards to the winners, which will be announced on December 3rd.

This year, new categories, new prizes and new circuits of exhibition give Cinemad its place on the film festival map during this great moment for cinema in Spain.