• Today the company presented this unique film project for the second year running, in which the directors, Isabel Coixet, Santiago Segura and Paco León have taken part with stories that raise awareness about energy efficiency through humour.

• During the presentation of the project, that took place today in San Sebastián, GAS NATURAL FENOSA renewed its agreement for the fourth time as official sponsor of the San Sebastián International Film Festival.

• This year as a new feature, CINERGY also includes the announcement of a competition for scripts among audiovisual communication and film students to produce a fourth short film.

Today GAS NATURAL FENOSA presented the second year of CINERGY, an initiative set up to make the general public more aware about energy efficiency through the seventh art and to promote talent in the Spanish film industry. On this occasion the company has produced four shorts with the collaboration of EL TERRAT that use humour to make viewers aware of the importance of energy saving and efficiency.

Three of the shorts have been made by directors as important as Isabel Coixet, Santiago Segura and Paco León and star some of the most famous actors on the national scene. Paco León’s short stars Carmen Maura and Secun de la Rosa; Santiago Segura’s stars Anabel Alonso, Enrique Villén and Joaquín Reyes; and Isabel Coixet’s stars Silvia Abril, Julián López, Kira Miró, Rodrigo Guirao and the comedian Andreu Buenafuente. The fourth short film will emerge from the “CINERGY Talent” competition launched by the company among audiovisual communication and film students.

During the presentation of the project, which took place today in San Sebastián, the General Manager of Communication and the Chairman’s Office at GAS NATURAL FENOSA, Jordi Garcia Tabernero, and the director of the San Sebastián International Film Festival, José Luis Rebordinos, signed the agreement that makes the energy company the official sponsor of this festival for the fourth time. What will be the 63rd Film Festival will be held from the 18th to the 26th of September 2015.

This is how GAS NATURAL FENOSA is renewing its support for the most important of the Festivals that are held in Spain, and showing once again its firm commitment to culture, and to be more precise, to the development of Spanish cinema, one of the industries that has been most severely affected by the economic crisis, especially as far as festivals have been concerned, as they have undergone significant cuts in their sources of funding in the last few years.

Four comedies about energy efficiency

The four shorts in the second year of CINERGY will convey the importance of energy saving and efficiency and will be linked to the products and services provided by GAS NATURAL FENOSA. Unlike last year when the project presented stories combining horror and suspense, this year the shorts will raise awareness about energy efficiency through humour, a genre that EL TERRAT is a national benchmark in. All the shorts will be screened at the most important film festivals in the country, and will reach the cinema theatres and homes of thousands of Spaniards.

As the General Manager of Communication and the Chairman’s Office at GAS NATURAL FENOSA, Jordi Garcia Tabernero, said during the presentation of the project today in San Sebastián, “CINERGY is a further step in our commitment to cinema, that is now well-established and recognised and has provided a significant boost to our company’s reputation. It also enables us to combine this association with cinema with the other main line of work among the company’s social commitments: raising awareness of energy efficiency”. The film director, Paco León, and the president of EL TERRAT, Andreu Buenafuente, who acted in one of the shorts as well, also took part in the event.

The short film “Un corazón roto no es como un jarrón roto o un florero” is a romantic comedy directed by Isabel Coixet starring Silvia Abril, Julián López, Kira Miró, Rodrigo Guirao and the comedian Andreu Buenafuente. The plot revolves around a heart specialist who tries to mend her broken heart after a disappointment in love for which she might be able to count on the help of the energy manager that works in her hospital.

Tension, emotion, dirty jokes and even a crime form the storyline of the short, “Nivel 7” directed by Santiago Segura. This is a story that starts with the surprise visit by the president of a residents’ association obsessed with responsible consumption to a resident who hides the fact that she is a heartless waster of watts behind the apparent facade of a discreet lady. In this short Segura directs Anabel Alonso, Enrique Villén and Joaquín Reyes.

In “Vaca Paloma” Paco León takes another look at the relations between a mother and son, but this time he does so with a surrealist touch. The short bases its plot on relations between a mother and son, that are complicated enough in themselves, and even more so if the son has a dairy cow that is a film buff with supernatural powers. The mother, Carmen Maura, will have to accept that, at a certain time in life, she is no longer the only source of energy that emerges from motherly love; while the son, Secun de la Rosa, who is very attached to his cow, will realise that the advice he continually receives from his mother is a problem.

Competition for young talent

The fourth of the short films will emerge from the “CINERGY Talent” competition for scripts launched by the company among audiovisual communication and film students (or those that have graduated in the last four years) with the aim of encouraging young talent. The jury, made up of professionals from the world of communications, will name a winner who will be able to produce and shoot the short with support from GAS NATURAL FENOSA and the technical staff from EL TERRAT, which will also be premiered at one of the major festivals in Spain.

The famous Spanish actor Jose Coronado will also be supporting the winner by attending the shooting process and premiere, and will use his fame and prestige to help to publicise the short, on social networks as well. The deadline for submitting scripts is the 28th of June and the winner will be announced on the 6th of July.

Success in its first year

The four shorts in the first year of CINERGY –directed by Paco Plaza, Rodrigo Cortés, Jaume Balagueró and Juan Cruz-, that were premiered at the most renowned festivals in Spain, were seen by nearly 8 million people on television and the Internet.

The energy company has kept its cinema web page (http://www.cine.gasnaturalfenosa.es) updated with all the information and news about CINERGY and through its social networks it will be launching numerous promotional campaigns to bring cinema closer to all viewers.

Commitment to culture and cinema

GAS NATURAL FENOSA is committed to collaborating with society, especially with the world of cinema, through its support for the main festivals and cinema theatres in the country. The company sponsors, among others, the San Sebastián Film Festival, the Sitges-International Fantasy Film Festival of Catalonia, the Malaga Film Festival, the Madrid Premiere Week, the FEROZ® critics’ awards and the Cartagena International Film Festival, as well as more than 40 cinemas in the Cinesa network in Spain that are called after GAS NATURAL FENOSA.