BULLETIN No. 3 (April 21, 2008) NOTES Festivals guests
Within Samples of 2 ° Festival Memory are the units of the International Festivals : DOCUSUR , DOCSDF and French festival the States General of the Documentary Film of Lussas .
The International Documentary Festival South , DOCUSUR is an event dedicated to documentary film and the first in Europe that is thematically about the documentaries made in the South or in the process development. Has the particularity to be held in the Canary Islands, a natural bridge between Europe, Africa and America, which positions it as a focal point of the multiple views of the planet. His commitment is to a new documentary and a work of 'nonfiction' in raising a critical view of reality.
DOCUSUR In the sample, comprising 5 documentary, we find stories from different latitudes as China, Netherlands, Nigeria, Iran, Chile and Israel. Through these eyes know, among other stories and characters, a photographer who wait on the Nigerian desert revaluation of his work, a few photographers craft and language learning with his camera capturing the remnants of the Chilean dictatorship, as well as a statement of freedom, feminist, charming, sensual and complex that only Belly Dance provided.
Another guest is Festival International Festival of Documentary Film of Mexico City , DOCSDF, which since its first edition commitment to quality programming position as one of the best festivals of the genre. DOCSDF participates in the 2 ° Festival Memory with 5 documentaries. This exhibition includes stories that have won awards at other festivals such as Crossing Arizona (Joseph Mathew and Dan DeVivo/06/EU), a documentary on migrants crossing the desert of Arizona, who won the One Future Prize at the Munich Film Festival in Germany Cats Mirikitani (Linda Hattendorf / 06/EU), portrait of a painful past remembered by a survivor of concentration camps World War II, which won the Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival in the United States as well as Arianna's eyes (Ricardo Macián Arcas/06/Esp) which reveals the story of a group of Afghan film archive safeguard the country during the occupation Taliban, this film won the award Tirant for Best Feature Documentary at the Festival of Valencia .
The third Festival is invited the States General of the Documentary Film Lussas , also known as or simply Lussas DOCLÁ . This Festival was born twenty years ago at the initiative of Jean-Marie Barbe, a native of Lussas, France, under the slogan of creating a place where they could be films that tell the world and those who inhabit it. Today, Lussas , is visited by thousands of spectators. Hosts its annual production in France, Belgian, Swiss and films from different continents. In addition, proposed seminars to discuss and show the achievements of students in the School Documentary Lussas created ten years ago.
In Lussas no competitions or prizes, exclusive premieres are not required, what premium is find films, not mere audiovisual products. What matters for DOCLÁ is further among those who lead, who show and those watching the meeting fruitful, critical and creative dialogue.
Lussas , Festival brings Memory 9 European documentaries, in which we can find a child with cancer reflect on life, illness, death hope because life is immense and full of dangers ; to Wall separating two cultures and that there surrounding, the journey of a filmmaker who seeks In the beach Belfast the protagonists of a film found in a camera purchased from an antiquities dealer, or four men and a child, Tweety Lovely Superstar , with its arms destroy buildings, among other stories.
The 2 nd Festival Memory receive the visit of the respective representatives of Festivals mentioned.
Made in Morelos
Made in Morelos is a space created for the projection of documentaries made in the State of Morelos. On this occasion with 7 productions that will be screened at the official venues of Tepoztlan and Cuernavaca. In this Show presents original and different the ceremony at All Souls' Day Ocotepec; Independent Wrestling traders engaged Mercado Municipal in Cuernavaca, we meet the Granicero or tiemperos and a Jovita called healer, and also see Ruben Jaramillo who reminds us that the worst thing would not fight, so life goes on it.
Light Memory
Light Memory, is the space devoted to illuminating the past that so often remains fuzzy and almost forgotten, is the Show which sheds light on the memory and illuminates our path into the future. On this occasion, the sample light Memory, is dedicated to two major developments: Mexico 68 and 50 anniversary of New Wave French cinema.
Mexico 68 documentary gathers 5 addressing this crucial year in the life of Mexico, shows views of those events, years of struggle that shook not only Mexico but the whole world, years of struggle against oppression, of social freedom, personal and sexual world together calling for the transformation. Shuddering still touches us and has not ceased to be.
Among the titles shown are: 68, thirty years later (Jaime G. Morett / TVUNAM/98) Ciudad Olimpia. The year we went modern (Daniel Inclán, Daniel Inclán Producciones/06) History of a document (Óscar Menéndez / Cooperative Salvador Toscano/98) Tlatelolco, the keys to the slaughter (Carlos Mendoza / Channel 6 Julio/03) and The cry ( Leobardo Lopez Aretche / Cinematografía/68 University Center), made by film students in that year and is one of the few graphic evidence of the events before the slaughter in Plaza de las Tres Culturas.
The Shows to commemorative 50 th Anniversary of New Wave French cinema, 1958-2008, is a space to learn, discover and reassess this film movement that went through the middle with his speech of an auteur more personal and free, far from the classic standards that major studios would prefer, a trend that decisively influenced the way of making and watching films.
The 2 ° Festival Memory chosen for screening in this Shows 7 documentaries concerning as: A close up documentary : New Wave themselves (Robert Valey-André S. Labarthe / 1964-1995/52min.) Claude Chabrol, entomologist (André S. Labarthe/1991/52min.) Eric Rohmer, with their tests ( André S. Labarthe / 1994 / 120min.) A vision of Alain Resnais, revolutionary discrete (Michel Leclerc/1980 / 58min.) and Agnès Varda (Philippe Fréling/1999/13min.) as well as the classic Resnais: Night and Fog (Alain Resnais/1955/32min.) and The harvest and harvesters (Agnès Varda/2000/83min.).
Outdoors
The Show the Outdoors present in the Zocalo of Tepoztlan, 's monster Sacred Mountain 1954 film by Ismael Rodriguez and built by the Nassour Brothers. Wide Screen first Western in color and science fiction that brings together a dinosaur, cowboy, cowboys many, many chinelos, Tepoztlan and mountains. A real curiosity.
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