Festival start: 15 July 2025
Festival end: 31 July 2025
A non-competitive showcase of community cinema and independent audiovisual work
Street Cinema is a traveling outdoor film screening series held in community-based, alternative, and publicly accessible spaces. The initiative aims to bring cinema and audiovisual creation to territories that have been historically excluded from traditional cultural circuits.
In its first edition, the showcase focused on the theme “Stories from the Southern Edge,” featuring local narratives, neighborhood memories, and voices from the periphery. The second edition explores narratives around transportation, reflecting on movement, transit, and the daily experience of living in the south.
The call is open to:
Community filmmakers
Audiovisual collectives
Individuals who create videos spontaneously as tools for storytelling, memory, or social reflection.
Street Cinema fosters filmmaking from and for the community, creating spaces for gathering, conversation, and reclaiming public space through the moving image.
Selected works will become part of the Street Cinema Network, allowing them to be screened in both rural and urban settings, reaching a broad and diverse audience from different contexts and geographies.
This recognition aims to amplify territorial voices, memories, and narratives beyond their place of origin, promoting community-based, free, and decentralized circulation.
PARTICIPATION GUIDELINES
Non-Competitive Showcase – Street Cinema
Stories from the Southern Edge / Narratives on Transportation
1. OBJECTIVE
To invite individuals, collectives, and audiovisual experiences—whether community-based, independent, or spontaneous—that narrate their territories, memories, movements, and ways of inhabiting the south, to share their work through public, community screenings.
2. WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
Community filmmakers or independent audiovisual creators.
Collectives, grassroots media groups, educational labs, or territorial organizations.
People who create videos spontaneously or informally as tools for expression, memory, or social commentary.
No prior experience or academic background is required.
3. THEMES
The showcase includes two main themes:
Stories from the Southern Edge
Narratives from urban and rural peripheries: everyday life, resistance, memory, affection, and the experience of living in the margins.
Narratives on Transportation
Works that explore public transit, mobility, walking, biking, or commuting, and how these movements shape daily life and social relationships.
4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Maximum length: 40 minutes.
Formats accepted: short films, documentaries, fiction, animation, experimental videos, music videos, archival footage, etc.
language: Spanish or with subtitles.
Works from any year are welcome.
Technical quality is flexible—cell phone or home videos are accepted as long as they are relevant and can be screened publicly.
5. SHOWCASE AND SELECTION
This is a non-competitive showcase: no jury awards or cash prizes.
Selection will be carried out by local community members living in the neighborhoods where screenings will take place, prioritizing relevance, connection to territory, and diversity of voices.
Selected works will be screened in public, open, or alternative spaces in the south.
When possible, screenings will include post-viewing discussions with creators (in person or virtually).
By submitting, you authorize the non-commercial public screening of your work as part of Street Cinema.
Screenings are free of charge and open to the public.
Dates, times, and locations will be determined by the organizing team in coordination with local communities.
Selected participants will be notified via email.
Audiovisual Narratives of the Train Route – La Mesa (Cundinamarca)
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10 Jul 25
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Street Cinema: Audiovisual Narratives of the Train Route – La Mesa (Cundinamarca) 2025 opens its programming to works that explore transportation as an essential part of community life: the ways we move, meet, and build memory.
Stories from the Southern Edge
Short Films >1' 40'<
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Submissions deadline
10 Jul 25
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Stories from the Southern Edge
Narratives from urban and rural peripheries: everyday life, resistance, memory, affection, and the experience of living in the margins.