Camper and Ciudad de la Luz, Europe’s most advanced film studio, have this afternoon announced the winners of their short film competition ‘A is for Action’.
The competition, which was open to students at the prestigious Alicante-based film school, has been run in parallel to Camper’s sponsorship of Emirates Team New Zealand in the forthcoming Volvo Ocean Race, which starts from the city at the end of October.
The criteria for entry was very simple: the main protagonist should be either a Camper shoe or the brand and the backdrop, the city of Alicante and the films themselves no longer than five minutes and either fictional or documentary in style.
“Camper is by its very nature a very creative brand and the opportunity for us to link up with Europe’s leading film school, is another exciting step towards further increasing our audiovisual output. And, with Ciudad de la Luz based in the host city for the start of the race, this was an opportunity too good to miss,” commented Dalia Saliamonas, Project Director for Camper in the Volvo Ocean Race.
This is the first stage of a cinematographic ‘tour’ of the world; with Camper establishing associations with leading film schools at key stopovers during the 37,000-mile round the world race.
Luis Cruz, the Director of the Cuidad de la Luz film school, stated that he was excited to be collaborating ‘with this leading international footwear brand’. He went on to say: “We also have a strong international emphasis, and despite the fact that we are a relatively new enterprise, we have already signed more than ten projects with other international organisations. This association with Camper further underlines the our joint strengths of creativity and quality, which will make this an outstanding project in its own right.”
The five-strong judging panel, that included representatives from Ciudad de la Luz, Camper and the British production company, Wing Productions, voted the following films as winners of the competition:
Overall Winner
UN ZAPATO LLAMADO CAMPER by Pepe Santatecla and Alejandro Navarro
A stop frame animation following CAMPER as he tries to buy a new pair of feet.
Judges comment: A shoe finding a foot is a fun premise and the stop motion is good and obviously a lot of effort went in to making the individual scenes.
1st Prize
TANGO by Olivia Lorot and Juan Torres
A stop frame animation of two Camper shoes dancing a tango in front of a moving backdrop of Alicante.
Judges comment: The choice of music and movement in the stop motion is really alluring. It has been well executed and the lighting and usage of stop frame is good.
2nd Prize
AVENTURA CAMPER by Anabela Medrano Heredia y Arancha Rodriguez de Segovia Sanchez de la Majestad
Two people’s journey in a race to find the Lifelovers boat at the port
Judges comment: A fun and bright movie that shows the boat and one of the only films to include the sponsorship of the Volvo Ocean Race
3rd Prize
CORRE O MUERE by Angel Gómez Hernández, Lucas Vázquez de la Vega, Raúl Mollá Marcos, Javier Flor de Lis, Javier de Juan Jerónimo and Ignacio Albeza Candela
A short horror movie where Camper shoes rescue the main protagonist.
Judges comment: The make up is amazing for a student film and the producers they must have had a LOT of fun making it!
En la mañana de hoy, la selección española de futbol, “la roja” actual campeona de Europa y del mundo de futbol, que jugó ayer el último partido de la fase clasificatoria del Eurocopa 2012, giraron visita a las instalaciones portuarias alicantinas, donde está amarrada la flota que competirá en la próxima edición de la regata de vuelta al mundo con escalas “Volvo Ocean Race”, que partirá desde la capital de la Costa Blanca el próximo 5 de Noviembre.
Parte del equipo entre los que se encontraban Xavi Hernandez, Sergio Busquets, Fernando Torres, Xavi Alonso, Victor Valdés entre otros componentes, subieron a bordo del barco y pasaron al interior donde fueron atendidos por Roberto Bermúdez de Castro y por el skipper y patrón del barco Cris Nicholson, que dieron todo tipo de explicaciones a los ilustres visitantes. Fernando Torres declaro a los medios de comunicación “Es impresionante ver cómo tendrán que sobrevivir sin prácticamente nada a bordo. He hablado con uno de los miembros del equipo y me ha dicho que lo hacen simplemente porque les gusta, por el mismo motivo que nosotros jugamos al fútbol. Irán 11 a bordo hasta julio, es sencillamente impresionante”.
Pie de foto: Roberto Bermúdez de Castro uno de los cañas del CAMPER, da explicaciones en el interior del barco al mediocentro de la selección y del Real Madrid Xavi Alonso, en presencia de su compañero de selección y de de demarcación en el FC Barcelona Sergio Busquets, y con el patrón del barco Cris Nicholson como testigo de este momento.
9/10/11
24 hours ago as we entered the Bay of Palma it very quickly dawned on us that we had managed to be the first boat there, which was somewhat a surprise. And what made our arrival even better was our welcoming party of our good friends from Camper.
Not far behind, the big black and red sea monster emerged around the corner and did a great job of getting into us in a classic tussle up to the ‘Cathedral marker’ not far off the waterfront in Palma. They managed to sneak around us just prior to the mark and then lead us back out of the Bay. The good news was their lead didn’t last for long as we soon reeled them in and passed them heading home towards Alicante.
The biggest tactical decision of Leg 0 was soon looming, to ‘shoot the gap’ between Ibiza & Formanterra, or go high and back over the top of Ibiza where there looked to be the best of what little breeze there was. As Nico said, “When you are in the lead and have to make a call like that, it’s a bit of a roll of the dice.”
As we sat there parked up just to the north of Ibiza I began to get a growing feeling, (when I mean growing, I mean, like that of another boats sails on the horizon getting bigger and bigger), that maybe the dice wasn’t falling our way.
“Full credit to the trailing boats; Puma, Telefonica & Sanya,” said Nico, “those guys all made the right call to go around the other side, we thought we were going to the weather side of the island, but what eventually happened was we ended up on the leeward side and they got the better breeze.”
As a result I think those boats are pretty much home in Alicante, we on the other hand are watching the sunrise, some 60 miles out having a close little battle with Groupama to see who can make it home first.
For sure this is a stark illustration of just how costly good or bad decisions can be. In this case, very costly- the difference between getting home to watch the All Blacks or not… Just as long as they make the semi finals it won’t matter at all!
HAMISH
7/10/11
I haven’t seen this sort of intensity on board CAMPER yet, despite having sailed over 10,000 miles with the crew.
To some people perhaps ‘Leg 0’ isn’t a race, just a little organized practice. Not so to this crew. The chance to finally line up against the other boats in the Volvo Ocean Race is a very serious matter especially as we hadn’t so much as laid eyes on another 2011 VO70 until we arrived in Alicante just over one week ago.
From the moment we left the dock the guys were clearly in the zone. It’s pretty obvious to see that this is the part of their job that they love and thrive on. It’s been a long road to this stage of the campaign, but now they get to do the bit that makes it all worthwhile…racing!!
CAMPER had a good start, and as Nico puts it, “We had a few good tussles going around the import part of the course, especially with Abu Dhabi.” By the time we were heading towards Tarbaca island, it was nice to look over our shoulders and see the entire fleet behind us, a sight I am sure we would never get sick of, however this isn’t an in port race and there is still a long way to go, so by all means there is no need to celebrate.” He said.
1700 GMT the man overboard exercise was like a Formula 1 pitstop. It was an unusual sight 6 VO70’ seemingly doing an impromptu waltz as the fleet suddenly stopped, dropped their sails and completed the man overboard exercise, before frantically getting back to racing hoping not to have lost any ground on the others.
Darkness drew with what seemed a blink of an eye and unfortunate for us, Telefonica Telefonica seemed to slip past with the blink of the other eye- then Abu Dhabi and then Puma. With this there wasn’t so much as a hint of worry, just continued focus to keep working back through the fleet.
A call from the ever-vigilant Salty was promising, “We just took a big chunk out of Telefonica.”
I enjoyed hearing those words.
We are now back fighting near the front of the fleet…. But really- so is everyone.
This will be a long night for the crew, not much sleep is anticipated, but hey- who wants to sleep when you are doing something you love? Not these guys.
HAMISH
Today six boats left the dock in Alicante to start “Leg 0”, a 360 nm race to Palma and back as the Volvo 70’s lined up for the first time ahead of the start of the Volvo Ocean Race on November 5th.
The race which will not see any points awarded, is to ensure all safety systems are in check before the teams take on the 39,000 nautical mile circumnavigation through the world’s most hostile oceans.
During the exercise the teams will need to complete several safety checks including a man-overboard drill, test their emergency steering system and storm sails.
“The qualifying race is an additional safety requirement that we decided to introduce following the 2008-09 race and it has been well received by the sailors,’’ said Jack Lloyd, Volvo Ocean Race Management.
“The aim is to ensure the safety gear, safety procedures and media equipment is tried and tested ahead of the first In-Port Race on October 29. We’ve removed certain rules like scoring, but it is the first opportunity the teams have had to sail as a complete fleet.’’
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