When actor-writer-director Sandra Lipski made her first short film, she wanted to send it to a local festival in Mallorca, where she grew up. She discovered there wasn’t one.
“It just really shocked me, because there’s literally a festival, as you know, in every little, tiny town,” she says. “And I just couldn’t believe that this beautiful island didn’t have one.”
So, she decided to start her own. “I thought, well, why not just try it?”
And that’s how Spain’s Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival (EMIFF) came into being in 2012. It wrapped its twelfth edition on Oct. 24.
Read full Q&A with Sandra Lipski on AWFJ.org
Photo by Johanna Gunnberg for EMIFF