In Antofagasta, the Todos Somos Diferentes Festival is taking place until August 8, offering a complete program where the exhibition stood out at the online opening of the American short film Feeling Through, nominated for the Best Live Action Short Film at the Oscars 2021.
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Until Sunday August 8, cinema of inclusion and disability will be the protagonists of the local billboard, with the start of the second online version of the 7th International Film Festival We Are All Different from Antofagasta.
This year the competition brings together 21 short films from different parts of the world, in the categories National, International and Organizations of and for people with disabilities and educational Institutions, in addition to the Audience Award.
All works can be viewed for free by entering diferentes.cl.
Organized and produced by Retornable, Centro Artístico Cultural de Antofagasta and presented by Escondida | BHP, through the Law of Cultural Donations, with the sponsorship of the National Disability Service of Chile (Senadis), the Festival has the participation of filmmakers from other countries like Spain, Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Argentina, in addition to Chile.
In their audiovisual works, they treat themes around the lives of people with disabilities such as: childhood, spirituality, daily and personal intimacy, problems and struggles of people without vision, their relationships with water and the sea, among others.
According to Elizabeth Cameron, social community de BHP, this festival is a great contribution from the point of view of inclusion: “As a company we are committed to providing social value to the community through this type of audiovisual projects. We are proud to be part of this Festival that, through high-quality films and content, promotes the inclusion of children, young people and the elderly for years invisible and represents the internal work we do as a company to install inclusion and diversity policies , where we all feel comfortable in the society in which we live ”.
Parallel activities
Among the exhibits, the sample stands out Cinema + Animation for everyone, with the Chilean short films Historia de un Oso (Gabriel Osorio), Sing with sense (Leonardo Beltrán) and Amucha (Jesús Sánchez).
Next to Cinema + Music for everyone, with Chilean feature films such as Escape to Silence: Life Notes by Alfredo Espinoza (Diego Pequeno), Unfinished Plan: El camino de Alain Johannes (Rodolfo Gárate) and Rosita: the favorite of the Third Reich (Pablo Berthelon).
In parallel, in the online cinemas, the public will be able to converse with the directors of short films and films, as Lafken ñi az / El mar delivers his knowledge (Ayila Rewe Budi Mapuche Film and Communication School) and Nahuel, a Mapuche legend (Epewma Audiovisual), from the Ficwallmapu Festival.
In addition to three short films from the Colombian inclusive film festival We Cam Fest, Valeria, Para Siempre Malevich and El Primer Baile.
Ending with the sample of the Chilean feature film on inclusion in education, Last Year (Viviana Corvalán and Francisco Espinoza).
Regarding the available talks, there are “Paradigm change on Disability in communications” with the journalist and director of Integrated Chile, Andrea Medina, “Entrepreneurial spirit: Myths and legends in people with disabilities” together with George Wulf, and the presentation by Julio Iglesias, “From the curriculum, advance to Inclusive Education.”
To close the schedule of parallel activities, the talks: “Building the international network of inclusive festivals and exhibitions”, “Women of the autism spectrum: a story to tell” with María Merino and Gloria Zamudio, and finally “FIACINE and public policies and inclusion” together with its director María Fernanda Cespedes, will be parts of the alternatives offered by Todos Somos Diferentes.
Education
The contest, as it is traditional, focuses on education, with three educational workshops for people with and without disabilities, with limited places and prior registration on the festival website.
“Cinematographic language in relation to deaf culture”, a space for appreciation between deaf, hearing and blind people to reflect on cinema, disability, inclusion and related topics, with the tutelage of the filmmaker, screenwriter and producer Viviana Corvalán, and the musician and audiovisual producer Francisco Espinoza, is the first of the activities.
The next workshop is “Inclusive Design and Accessibility for a social transformation in favor of inclusion” and is led by Jimena Gómez Lues, PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and Master in Social Sciences from the University of Birmingham.
While the third educational activity is organized together with Retornable Cineclub, with the Film Criticism Workshop for boys, girls and young people between 14 and 17 years old, aimed at all those interested in knowing, understanding and transmitting the cinematographic and audiovisual language, together to the journalist and director Quilla Creativa, Giarella Araya, as a tutor.
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