RTVE reaffirms its commitment to the Malaga Festival for three more years, until 2028. This is reflected in the agreement signed this Tuesday by the president of the Corporation, José Pablo López; the mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre; and the director of the festival, Juan Antonio Vigar, at an event held at the Casa de la Radio in Prado del Rey (Madrid).

José Pablo López has expressed the Corporation's delight at renewing the agreement with one of the most important Spanish film festivals for there years and has recalled RTVE's deployment around the event, with broadcasts from Malaga and a wide catalogue of Spanish cinema on RTVE Play, totalling more than 42 million views. "We are one of the main drivers of support for Spanish cinema and our commitment is unequivocal," he stressed.

Francisco De la Torre has highlighted the “natural alliance” between RTVE, Malaga and the festival. “RTVE is a key part in promoting Spanish cinema”. “The festival permeates the city every year”, and “we are looking forward to RTVE holding its programmes there and filling the city”.
For Juan Antonio Vigar, the “collaboration agreement with the Corporation has been decisive” in growth of the event. He has given as examples to show that “80% of Spanish films are participated in by RTVE” and “the visibility that you give us through your programmes”, and he has also expressed his desire that “these three years are solid and decisive and make this agreement extended in future agreements”.

Following the signing, Sergio Calderón, director of TVE, said that RTVE supports Spanish cinema “out of conviction and heart” and highlighted the commitment to animation and social and gender diversity in cinema. José Pastor, director of Cinema and Fiction at RTVE, insisted on the “common objectives” shared by the Malaga Festival and the Corporation; and Alberto Fernández, director of RTVE Play, recalled that RTVE's free online platform is “the home for those who want to catch up with the festival”.

The event was attended by Mariano Muniesa, Rosa León, Marina Vila, Esther de la Mata, Ignacio Ruiz Jarabo and Maite Martín, members of the RTVE Board of Directors. Other RTVE officials also attended, such as Roberto Santamaría, director of RNE; Urbana Gil, director of the Society area; Tomás Fdo. Flores, director of Radio 3; Gervasio Iglesias, deputy director of Cinema; and María Eizaguirre, director of Communication and Participation.

Also attending were directors, producers and presenters of TVE, RNE and RTVE Digital programmes dealing with cinema: Ana Romero and José Fernández (Telediarios), Cayetana Guillén Cuervo and Félix Piñuela ('Historia de nuestro cine'), Gerardo Sánchez ('Días de cine'), Sonia Sánchez Ferri ('Historia de nuestro cine'), Marcos Hernández ('Imprescindibles') Machús Osinaga ('Cine de Barrio'), Moisés Rodríguez ('Sequencias en 24h'), Yolanda Flores ('De película'), Isabel Ruiz Lara ('Tres en la carretera'), Raquel Elices (RTVE Play Somos Cine) and Esteban Ramón and Jesús Jiménez, from RTVE.es; Ana Peláez, executive producer of documentaries and José María Payueta, producer of film programmes.

3 more years of collaboration
In the agreement, which will run for the next three years - the 29th (2026), 30th (2027) and 31st (2028) editions - RTVE undertakes to cover the main events taking place during the Malaga Festival on its various media and channels, as well as once again assuming official sponsorship and exclusively broadcasting the closing gala of the event on television, the web and other digital platforms.
The Festival has been organised and promoted since 1998 by Málaga Procultura, a company wholly owned by the Malaga City Council, whose corporate purpose includes the promotion and development of all activities related to Spanish-language cinema, among others.

RTVE in the 28th edition of the Malaga Festival
The Malaga festival has become, over its almost three decades of history, a great platform for cinema and a great window for films with the participation of RTVE, which comes every year to present its new productions to critics and the public before they are shown at theatres.

In this 28th edition, RTVE is attending with 22 films with the participation of RTVE, 13 in the Official Section, and nine documentaries, one of them in competition. Furthermore, it will carry out many of the film spaces of TVE and RNE from there; it will broadcast the closing gala; it will pre-premiere its new fiction ‘Weiss & Morales’; and it will show a preview of ‘HOPE!’, the new documentary series of RTVE Play.

This year, the programme will feature three special galas to be held by RTVE: on Saturday the 15th at the Cervantes Theatre, with ‘Tierra de nadie’ by Albert Pintó; on Sunday the 16th at the Albéniz Theatre there will be a pre-premiere of ‘La huella del mal’, directed by Manuel Ríos; and on Monday the 17th, in collaboration with Canal Sur, ‘Vírgenes’ by Álvaro Díaz Lorenzo will be presented, also at the Albéniz.

In addition, between the 14th and 23rd of March, while the competition is taking place, RTVE will be providing content on all its channels and platforms. RTVE Play already has a collection of titles that have won awards or been highlighted at the Málaga Festival available, with highly-rated films such as ‘Cinco lobitos’, ‘Alcarrás’, ‘Las niñas’, ‘Matria’, ‘El registrado’, ‘La boda de Rosa’ and ‘Verano 1993’.