Synopsis 'Thesis' tells the story of university student Angela, who is researching her thesis on violence in the media. One of her tutors, who has promised to find suitable audiovisual material from the campus archive, accidently discovers a network of disused storerooms in the basement. He finds an unmarked videocassette and puts it into a VCR, but is murdered before he gets a chance to divulge the tape's content. Angela finds the cassette and decides to watch it, seeking a clue to the murderers identity, and in doing so discovers that snuff movies are being made in the universit's basements. Inevitably, she's soon cast as the next victim, and so begins a nail-biting game of cat and mouse between Angela and the chief suspect.
Awards Goya Awards 1997 Best Film, Best Editing, Best New Actor (Fele MartÃnez), Best New Director, Best Production Supervision, Best Screenplay - Original, Best Sound
Cinema Writers Circle Awards 1997 CEC Award Best New Artist
Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film 1997 Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver
Valdivia International Film Festival 1997 Audience Award
Directors Biography Alejandro Amenábar is born 1972 in Santiago, Chile. He is a Spanish film director. He studied cinema at Madrid's Universidad Complutense. Amenábar burst onto the Spanish film scene at the age of 23 as writer, director and composer with his first feature 'Tesis' (1996). He was awarded the Grand Prix of the Jury at the International Venice Film Festival in 2004 for Mar adentro ('The Sea Inside'), and in 2005 the same film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In addition to writing and directing his own films, Amenábar has maintained a notable career as a composer of film scores.
Location and screening schedule: BUG cinema &TD, Monday, October 19th at 21.00
