Guanajuato, Gto., June 18, 2016.- The University of Guanajuato had presence throughout the second edition of the Film and Literature Festival, FESEK, cultural initiative organized by SEK university, which has presence in Europe, Latin America, and in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico.

The festival that this edition had as a guest country, Mexico, they are considering the exhibit of more than 60 Latin American and European films, workshops for students and professionals of the audiovisual area and conference cycles.

At the festival, they covered diverse aspects of cinema, literature, politics, music, kitchen, academy, among others.

Representing the University of Guanajuato (UG), the Movie Club's coordinator of the University of Guanajuato, Lic. Montserrat Alejandri Oyanguren gave a workshop about Mexican cinema and literature.

In the workshop, Montserrat Alejandri selected diverse abstracts of Mexico's literature to then watch the movies based on these works. The objective of the activity was to watch the films as two different platforms with different languages.

Another of the activities of the Festival was the development of a program called "La Mirada necesaria" that consists in the analysis of cinematographic and literary works, where each one of the participants selected a movie and a novel to describe and reflect on the contrasts.

The Movie Club's Coordinator from UG, chose the movie "Ceguera" (blindness) adaptation from the novel "Ensayo sobre la ceguera" from the Portuguese Nobel Prize winner José Saramago. This gave the opportunity to see the differences and similitudes between these two forms of expression.

Besides, during this festival there were also talks about Mexican and Chilean cinemas in the film library of this University.

It is worth mentioning that Lic. Montserrat Alejandri studies Communication Sciences with a major on Communication Media in the University of La Salle Bajío.

For seven years, she coordinates the Movie Club from the University of Guanajuato, responsible for monthly programming cinema cycles in short and feature films for their projection in the auditorium Euquerio Guerrero and alternate exhibit forums, of the institutional cinematographic projects or linked with public or private organisms, national or international, with the purpose to contribute to the rescue and valuing of cinema as a cultural asset, as art, and as a mean to educate and sensitize, contributing to the comprehensive formation of the university community in an open, equal and plural form.