ALCINE is considered the most important Short Film Festival for Spanish filmmakers in Spain. In fact, year after year, nearly the whole national production is submitted to the festival, a place where many top-level professionals took their first artistic steps. Since its early years, ALCINE has consistently aimed to present and research into processes at work throughout the long history of Spanish film. This effort has been accomplished by organizing conferences, publications, screenings, courses, round table discussions, exhibitions etc. all facilitated and moderated by leading professionals in the Spanish film industry. For nine years now ALCINE’s target has been to provide European short filmmaking with a platform for its promotion in the centre of Spain. Inspired by several prestigious European film festivals, ALCINE has kept up the mainstay of its festival, the Spanish Short Film Competition and has turned its European Short Film Competition into a second cornerstone on which the festival structure is based. Experience and success in the organization of the national competition is the basis for the new and ambitious construction. ALCINE already to became a reference for Spanish and European short film in Spain. In setting up ShortLatino – the European and Latin American Short Film Market, ALCINE is working on the creation of a meeting point for European and Latin American filmmakers, ditributors, producers, institutions or any organisms in the short film’s field. Externalization / Subcontracting Malvalanda for Alcine 2014/2015Alcine in 2014 has been obliged to externalize a part of the budget to a private production company, due to the economic situation of the country. Payments in public institutions and townhalls are strictly surveyed at the momeno and therefore slowed down. It is alsoorbidden to hire temporary staff. Any contract for personnel is temporarily forbidden. In this conditions the organization of the festival would have been extraordinarily difficult. Without temorary staff or volunteers, the work in the last months of the festival would have been too much for two persons, who work all year at the office. There has been a public tender to externalize 90.000 euro of the budget to facilitate the development of the festival. Supplier and filmaker are also nused to a reasonable time of payments of 90 days. Also to garanty these time limits the externalization has been done. Only one company presented all the requirements for the public tender, so that Alcine started to work this year with MALVALANDA. The signed contract is for two years, 2014 and 2015. Malvalanda, in representation her owner Maria del Puy Alvarado, took over a lot of the production tasks, treating with suppliers for the catalogue, hotels, restaurants for the invited guests, printing and positioning of posters, organization of the closing ceremony, hiring script writer and actress, taking over the payments of the hired films, searching for and hiring temporary staff, production of videos and press DVDs. This step has been necessary to continue a professional work at Alcine. We are happy to be able to count on Malvalanda and their support on the organization.