Bras And Pantygirdles

BULLETIN No. 2 (April 14, 2008)

The documentary

Cinema documentary is the ideal medium, given its formal characteristics and background, to find events, people, processes, searches, failures, hopes. Is the medium that combines the testimony, research, analysis and insight with the technical and narrative cinema.

is a medium that has positioned itself as the voice of major events which have happened, happening and are about to happen. In this age of images, the documentary has a vital role in the transmission of messages.

The 2 ° Festival Memory , Celebrates the rise of documentary cinema and provides a space for exhibition and development. He has designed a program that offers various themes, as open and diverse, as reality itself.

Official Section in Tepoztlan

documentaries in competition for the Official of 2 ° Festival Memory: Iberoamerican Documentary Film Tepoztlan, contend in four categories: Memory and Rebellion , Identities , Science and Ecology and Art, which is integrated to this second edition. In total, the Official , 36 documentaries competing.

The Festival delivery Zapata figurine, created by the sculptor César González Gaston, best documentary in each section and also delivers Chinel voted best documentary by the public. Also the International Communication SIGNIS delivery for the first time, the prize for best documentary of all sections.

In the category of memory and Rebellion , which integrates the documentaries that seek to rescue from oblivion the events, although painful, we have marked 10 projects compete among other issues addressed, the consequences of the dirty war in Argentina, Mexican migration to the United States, as well as social and human stunning portraits of various Latin American countries. This category awards the July Statement best documentary by TVUNAM.

Identities , joint visions that protect us like that which characterizes and distinguishes the other, with 11 participating documentary offers subjects ranging from Wrestling at the border in Tijuana, the redemption of a kicker, the details of an undertaker to the search for origins is a key piece in the puzzle that we are.

The category of Science and Technology documentary brings together the environmental topics environment are increasingly present in everyday life and the protection of natural resources. In the 7 documentaries in this category prevailing theme of ecocide and the resistance of the peoples concerned.

In Art with 8 documentary seeks to delve into the characters, in ways and in situations that give color to the world of aesthetic expression and is achieved through this selection we makes known poets, tango musicians, sculptors, photographers retrace his steps, Nadaísta offenders and dedicated artists.

Stresses in Section official participation of various host countries like Mexico, with 11 documentaries, Spain, competing with 8 documentaries, with 5 Argentina, Chile and Peru with two pieces each. Also involved Colombia, Paraguay, Ecuador, Brazil and Germany, who addresses a topic of impact Iberoamericana. Within 36 documentary Official Selection are 3 contributions: U.S., Argentina, Britain, Mexico and the United States and Mexico and Japan.

in Tepoztlan Mexico Mirador

Among the samples that Festival is Mirador provides Mexico, giving us an overview of recent Mexican documentary bill, in this sample converge to the concerns of producers and filmmakers are Mexican and the Dead in Juarez, shamanic rituals, and celibate warriors mystical racial segregation in Palestine, soneros legendary places of hope, the Maya ancestral knowledge, Cold War in Mexico, the search for origins and the difficult existence of the boxers and footballers.

Both the Official Section as the sample will Mirador Mexico exclusive venues in the village.

deserves special mention increasing female participation in the Official Selection Mirador and Mexico.

Challenge

The Second Festival of Memory and the International Documentary Film Festival of of Mexico City comes in Tepoztlan DOCSDF Challenge, which will be place from 10 to 15 May. The challenge is aimed at Morelos and is making a documentary maximum of 10 minutes in 100 hours in the Festival. The subject should approach life in Tepoztlan, their histories, their people, their traditions. Proposals are received until Sunday 20 April.

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