I FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL CINEANDO CON MI GENTE: VIDEO PARTICIPATIVO Y CINE COMUNITARIO 2023 ()

Festival start: 15 November 2023      Festival end: 16 November 2023

Festival Description
The “ I Festival CineAndo con mi gente: video participativo y cine comunitario” (First Festival “CineAndo with my people: participatory video and community cinema)”, which will take place on 15 and 16 November in the city of Cali, Colombia, is an event that brings together amateur filmmakers, students, artists and members of the community to share, explore and celebrate audiovisual creativity that emerges from a collective and collaborative perspectives. The Festival’s main objective is to provide an inclusive space where individual and collective voices come together to share their stories in ways that reflect the reality, diversity and aspirations of their communities..




Through the screening of videos, short films and other audiovisual works, the festival offers a platform for the presentation of productions resulting from the active participation and collaboration of different actors. These audiovisual creations can address a wide range of local and global issues, including analysis of socio-cultural situations, reflections on society and personal experiences.




The festival is not limited to the screening of films. It also encourages interaction and dialogue through conversations, talks and interactive workshops. These spaces seek to allow participants to explore a series of topics such as differences and similarities between community cinema and participatory video, learnings and lessons, and challenges of collaborative audiovisual production techniques.




In addition to celebrating creativity and participation, the festival also has a commemorative component as it makes memory of social leaders and communities who have been victims of the conflict in the country. In so doing, the Festival also
provides opportunities for reflection on issues such as human rights, social justice and historical memory. In this sense, the festival can include screenings that pay homage to territorial leaders and debates that promote reflection on social change through cinema and audiovisuals.

Prize
A single prize will be awarded for each of the two categories.

- CineAndo con mi gente award in the participatory video category - U$500

- Cineando con mi gente award in the community cinema category - U$500

- The special Sustainability Award, which does not include a financial prize, will be granted to the projects in each category that stand out in any of the following aspects:

- Environmentally friendly process
- Gender parity, women's participation and LGBTI+
- Participation of people from ethnic, age population groups, people with differential abilities
- Contribution to the reflection of social problems

Terms and conditions of the call for applications
Registration in the "I International Festival CineAndo with my people: Participatory Video and Community Cinema", implies the acceptance of the rules mentioned above.

Who can participate
Participation is open to all national and international collectives, producers, community orgnisations, communicators and film directors whose work has a social and community focus and wish to submit their work.
Academics, filmmakers and researchers interested in Participatory Action Research, Action Research for Artistic Creation, participatory video, collaborative cinema, community cinema and film co-creation laboratories.
The following are not eligible to participate:
Festival organizers and their relatives up to third degree of consanguinity; researchers and local researchers associated to the Research Project Community-based strategies for unarmed civilian protection in southwestern Colombia: local experiences and lessons learned. UAO (Colombia) - University of Sheffield (United Kingdom).


The participants assign the rights of reproduction and public communication of their works to the "I Festival Internacional CineAndo con mi gente: Participatory Video and Community Cinema " for their exhibition within the framework of the aforementioned Festival. Likewise, they authorise the "I Festival Internacional CineAndo con mi gente: Participatory Video and Community Cinema" to use the name, voice and/or image of the director and/or producer, fragments and/or stills of the selected works, as well as their promotional material for the corresponding dissemination of the Festival in different media.
Shortlisted works will become part of the Festival´s video library and/or archive, and, provided that mutual agreement is reached between the parties, they may be used in exhibitions or film shows that the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente carries out to promote this and future versions of the festival through the broadcast of excerpts in the Festival's publicity, on its website and social networks, as well as the cultural programming of the Film and Digital Communication program of the UAO.
By submitting their proposals for nomination, participants declare that they comply with the requirements established in this document and confirm that they are responsible for the rights of the works submitted to the festival.
The content of the proposals is the sole responsibility of their authors. It is not the responsibility of the "I Festival Internacional CineAndo con mi gente: Participatory Video and Community Cinema," nor the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente’s.
The prize will be awarded to the person designated as representative in the registration form. The awarded participant agrees to transfer, free of charge, the right of public communication and reproduction of the audiovisual work.
Once the work has been selected for participation, the authors will have to submit the final copy for screening no later than November 3, 2023. The screening version must be in .mov format and can be sent digitally with a download link to the e-mail festivalcineando@uao.edu.co.
CONTACT: If you have any questions about the call or any difficulties with the registration process, please contact us at the following e-mail address: festivalcineando@uao.edu.co