Festival start: 05 November 2025
Festival end: 09 November 2025
V Festival Americano de Cinema Socioambiental
traduce al ingles: V Festival Americano de Cinema e Vídeo Socioambiental de Iraquara
A degradação ambiental e social começa a preocupar a humanidade como um todo. Isso porque a busca por um lucro rápido e fácil gera tal degradação, afetando a coletividade em geral, forçando a cada um de nós a adotar mudanças de atitude, para que, dessa forma, possamos garantir a nossa própria sobrevivência no Planeta.
Os problemas decorrentes da ação negativa do homem sobre a natureza têm sido objeto do olhar não só do Poder Público, mas também da sociedade civil organizada, além de ter se transformado em fonte de inspiração para artistas que almejam registrar e denunciar a deterioração do ser humano e da natureza. Sendo assim, o cinema e o vídeo são os veículos adequados para documentar e delatar as graves agressões ao ecossistema. A partir daí, possibilitar o acesso às obras produzidas com essa temática é uma forma de envolver as pessoas nesse movimento de conscientização para preservação do planeta e da raça humana.
Iraquara, fincada na Chapada Diamantina, na Bahia, tem um patrimônio natural de valor inestimável: lá se encontra o maior acervo espeleológico da América do Sul. E é também por isso que essa pequena cidade dá seu aporte nesse processo de conscientização ambiental, realizando o V Festival Americano de Cinema e Vídeo Socioambiental de Iraquara – V FASAI CINE VÍDEO. Com o objetivo de apoiar e ampliar a rede de defesa do meio ambiente e do ser humano, serão exibidas e premiadas obras de cinema e vídeo – longa, média e curta metragens – com temática socioambiental no V FASAI.
A proposta, também, passará por realizar palestras e debates sobre a água, esse precioso bem finito que a natureza nos dá; debater sobre o desmatamento que tem assoreado nossos rios e degradado terras antes férteis; debater sobre um dos graves problemas de nossa época que são as toneladas de resíduo sólido que produzimos diariamente e os descartamos sem qualquer critério no solo. Queremos transformar tais debates que serão travados durante o IV FASAI CINE VÍDEO em ações concretas na própria cidade, modificando o cotidiano da população local e estimulando a prática de cidadania em cada indivíduo. O município poderá mostrar ao mundo como o Poder Público pode e deve interferir no processo de conscientização e mudança de atitude de sua população.
O V FASAI CINE VÍDEO convida vocês realizadores e realizadoras que fazem da sua arte uma ferramenta na luta por um mundo melhor; vocês, ambientalistas que registram as suas lutas com tecnologias audiovisuais para denunciar e combater os crimes que convivemos no nosso dia-a-dia, a inscreverem suas obras audiovisuais que tematizem sobre a natureza e a sua degradação corrente em nosso V Festival Americano de Cinema e Vídeo Socioambiental de Iraquara.
A cidade lhes espera de braços abertos para que juntos possamos apontar ações que prenunciem uma melhor qualidade de vida em nossa cidade, em nosso país e, quiçá, no mundo!
V American Festival of Socio-Environmental Film and Video of Iraquara
Environmental and social degradation is beginning to concern humanity as a whole. This is because the pursuit of quick and easy profits generates such degradation, affecting the collective as a whole, forcing each of us to adopt changes in attitude so that, in this way, we can ensure our own survival on the planet.
The problems arising from the negative actions of humans on nature have been the focus of not only the Public Authorities but also organized civil society. Moreover, they have become a source of inspiration for artists who seek to document and denounce the deterioration of both humanity and nature. Thus, film and video are the appropriate mediums to document and expose the serious aggressions against the ecosystem. From there, providing access to works produced with this theme is a way to involve people in this movement of awareness for the preservation of the planet and the human race.
Iraquara, located in the Chapada Diamantina region of Bahia, has a natural heritage of immeasurable value: it is home to the largest speleological collection in South America. And it is also for this reason that this small town contributes to this process of environmental awareness by hosting the V American Festival of Socio-Environmental Film and Video of Iraquara – V FASAI CINE VIDEO. With the goal of supporting and expanding the network of defense for the environment and humanity, films and videos—feature-length, medium-length, and short—with socio-environmental themes will be screened and awarded at the V FASAI.
The proposal will also include lectures and debates on water, that precious and finite resource that nature provides us; discussions on deforestation, which has silted our rivers and degraded once-fertile lands; and debates on one of the serious problems of our time: the tons of solid waste we produce daily and discard without any criteria into the soil. We aim to transform the debates held during the IV FASAI CINE VIDEO into concrete actions within the city itself, changing the daily lives of the local population and encouraging the practice of citizenship in each individual. The municipality will be able to show the world how the Public Authorities can and should intervene in the process of raising awareness and changing the attitudes of its population.
The V FASAI CINE VIDEO invites you, filmmakers and artists who use your craft as a tool in the fight for a better world; you, environmentalists who document your struggles with audiovisual technologies to denounce and combat the crimes we face in our daily lives, to submit your audiovisual works that address the theme of nature and its ongoing degradation to our V American Festival of Socio-Environmental Film and Video of Iraquara.
The city awaits you with open arms so that together we can propose actions that foreshadow a better quality of life in our city, in our country, and perhaps in the world!
Cash Prizes: 17,000€
- The Official Jury will award the following official prizes:
1. CIDADE DE IRAQUARA Trophy for the best feature film among the works presented and BRL 35,000.00 (thirty thousand reais);
2. GLAUBER ROCHA Trophy for the best production from Bahia among the works presented and BRL 30,000.00 (thirty thousand reais);
3. BEIJA-FLOR DE GRAVATA Trophy for the best medium-length film among the works presented and BRL 20,000.00 (twenty thousand reais);
4. CHAPADA DIAMANTINA Trophy for the best short film among the works presented and BRL 20,000.00 (twenty thousand reais)
Festival Americano de Cinema e Vídeo Socioambiental de Iraquara
V FASAI Cine Video
ORDINANCE
1 - PURPOSE
Art. 1st - The V FASAI CINE VÍDEO aims to promote, exhibit and reward long, short and medium-length audiovisual works, produced in the Americas, fiction or documentary, with a socio-environmental thematic.
2 - DATE AND PLACE
Art. 2nd - The V FASAI CINE VIDEO - Iraquara Socio-Environmental Film and Video Festival will take place in the City of Iraquara, Chapada Diamantina in the State of Bahia/Brazil from November 5th to 9th, 2025.
3 - REGISTRATION
Art. 3rd - Films and videos produced from January 2024 onwards, within the festival’s environmental theme, are eligible to apply, whether fiction, animation or documentary feature, medium or short films.
Sole § – Short film works with up to 20 minutes with credits. Medium-length works with up to 59 minutes with credits and feature film works with 60 minutes or more.
Art. 4th – Registration for audiovisual work produced in the Americas is open from March 10th to May 11th, 2025 by filling out the form available on the website www.fasai.art.br.
§ 1st – The V FASAI CINE VÍDEO Organization will recognize the person responsible for the registration as the only interlocutor for decisions regarding the film or video’s participation in the festival and must send the registration form duly completed and signed with the link and password of the film/video for access to the work by the curator;
§ 2nd – The person responsible will fill out a term of responsibility as responsible for the registration of the work, being the producer and holder of all applicable rights in accordance with Annex I of this regulation. Failure to sign this annex implies the disqualification of the work from the V FASAI CINE VÍDEO Competitive Festival.
Art. 5th – The selected works will be published on the FASAI’s CINE VÍDEO official website directly by the festival's Organization, and the person responsible for the registration must send a copy in digital format in DCP (Digital Cinema Package) of the film/video to the Organization for exhibition.
§ 1st – Portuguese subtitles and descriptive subtitles are mandatory requirements for exhibition of all works selected in the Competitive Festival, without which the selected production will be disqualified by the organization.
§ 2nd – The subtitles mentioned in §1st may be implemented until the deadline for submitting the exhibition Link for the festival production.
4 - SELECTION
Art. 6th - A curatorial team chosen among professionals of recognized ability by the organizers, will select, among the works registered, those that will participate in the Competitive Festival, having the curatorial team full autonomy to disqualify works that, in their judgment, do not fit the selection criteria of V FASAI CINE VÍDEO or do not meet the requirements of this ordinance.
§ 1st – The V FASAI CINE VÍDEO Organization, according to the available resources, may invite one representative per selected work, expenses covered by the IV FASAI CINE VÍDEO Festival.
§ 2nd - Filmmakers who pay for their trips to Salvador, provided that the Organization is informed in antecipation, will receive Salvador/Iraquara/Salvador transfer, accommodation and food on behalf of the Festival.
§ 3rd - The IV FASAI CINE VÍDEO Organization reserves the right to invite up to 10% of the Competitive Festival schedule of works that can enhance the festival and the debate on cinematographic, social and environmental issues.
5 - AWARD
Art. 7th - An Official Jury will be constituted with 05 (five) members of outstanding audiovisual, social and environmental performance, who will be coordinated by a president, responsible for the minutes of meetings, with sovereign and irrevocable decisions.
Art. 8th - The Official Jury will award the following official prizes:
1. CIDADE DE IRAQUARA Trophy for the best feature film among the works presented and BRL 35,000.00 (thirty thousand reais);
2. GLAUBER ROCHA Trophy for the best production from Bahia among the works presented and BRL 30,000.00 (thirty thousand reais);
3. BEIJA-FLOR DE GRAVATA Trophy for the best medium-length film among the works presented and BRL 20,000.00 (twenty thousand reais);
4. CHAPADA DIAMANTINA Trophy for the best short film among the works presented and BRL 20,000.00 (twenty thousand reais)
§ 1st: Other awards and honorable mentions offered by national or international institutions will be accepted, provided they are previously approved by the festival's organization. The responsibility of choice and delivery of this external award will be of the institutions that propose them.
§ 2nd: It is understood by Bahian production for the purpose of awarding item 2 of Art. 8th, works performed by producers, individuals or legal entities, based and residing in the State of Bahia in a period equal to more than two years.
§ 3rd: The cash prize resources will be funded by the Municipality of Iraquara for a total amount of R$100,000.00 (one hundred thousand reais) in accordance with Art. 8º.
6 - GENERAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS
Art. 9th - The festival organization reserves the right to display, free of charge, in cinema and television, an extract of the selected work for the purpose of promoting the festival.
Art. 10th - The selected works may be exhibited, within a period equal to or less than 120 (one hundred and twenty) days, in movie theaters and/or TV networks, in non-commercial sessions, unless expressly restricted by their director/producer.
Art. 11th - The signature of the director/producer on the registration form implies acceptance of these ordinances.
Sole §: The present regulation is written in Portuguese, Spanish and english and in case of doubt, the interpretation in Portuguese prevails.
Art. 12th - Cases not covered by this Ordinance will be resolved by the Organization of IV FASAI CINE VÍDEO
