8 VLC Negra

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After years of uninterrupted growth, to the festival dedicated to noir in Valencia, VLC Black, You have no choice but to reduce venues and activities in this pandemic context in which you have to move. But the organizers were clear about it since they had to suspend the event in May, if there was even a slight chance to celebrate the eighth edition, they were going to try. and here they are, in November, with a programming that includes 16 meetings with reduced capacity (registration will be required) that will be broadcast on streaming. For obvious reasons, This year there will be no presence of international authors, but they will participate electronically John Connolly, Tana French, Ian Rankin, Graeme Macrae y Nicholas Night And. In any case, the list of the nationals that we will have, in flesh and blood, she is more than talented: Elia Barcelo, Victor del Tree, Jordi Sierra i Fabra, Marta Sanz, Juan Ramón Bidema, Mikel Santiago, César Pérez Gellida, Lorenzo Silva, Aro Sainz de la Maza, Martha Robles And many more. The festival, a little colder this year due to the suspension of dinners with the authors, of the book signing in the street and the typical closing with ham and wine, has chosen the difficult path, readapt and move on. AU