Kino Awards

The Kino Awards were created in 1996 to celebrate the work of the final year of the Audiovisual Communication degree. Each year, 4th year students produce a short fiction or documentary film, or an entertainment pilot, which is their first complete project before making the leap to professional life. With these awards, the professors and students of the Audiovisual Communication degree celebrate the end of the degree, which is a new beginning. And we do it with friendly competition and with a sense of humor, traits that we would always like to find in our work.

The word "cinema" has its root in the Greek kinēma, which means "movement". Capturing and showing life, emotions, change - all movement - is the work we try to learn and teach in the degree in Audiovisual Communication. Moreover, in our language, "los Kino" sounds like a proper or diminutive name, like the Oscars, the Goyas, the César, etc.

The Kino Award statuette, used since the second edition, is the work of the artist Carlos Ciriza, who makes the awards by hand every year. The main motif of the figure is the word "Kino", sculpted vertically in round bulk, pointing to the sky, from which a celluloid stele emerges. This main figure rests on geometric pieces that represent a cinema projector. On the back, there is a relief of a movie camera over a field of stars, and the sculptor's signature.