Short films, workshops and free talks with award-winning Chilean filmmakers will be screened from April 12 to May 8 at the 2nd version of the La Reina Community Film Festival (FECICOM). From March 3, the festival opens a call to participate in the short film competition to be held on May 7 and 8 with the participation of an exceptional female jury: Maite Alberdi, Paulina García, Macarena Aguiló and Elisa Eliash.
The new edition of the Community Film Festival will focus on the development of workshops, as well as master classes by renowned filmmakers open to all audiences. All free activities upon registration.
“Enrich life in common”
La Casona Nemesio Antúnez, dependent on the Cultural Corporation of La Reina, presents this new edition of the Community Film Festival. The initiative seeks to dialogue around cinema through the making short films by the community, amateurs and professionals and their subsequent exhibition.
This version will have a digital facet due to the pandemic and appropriate protocols are studied to achieve semi-presence if sanitary conditions allow it. Some of the activities to be carried out are “Let’s make it short”, a series of workshops for the co-creation of short films with the community dictated by filmmakers such as Carola Adriazola and Rodrigo Sepúlveda. All activities are free.
There will also be a set of master classes, led by the film critic and novelist Ernesto Garratt, to renowned figures of Chilean filmmaking such as Dominga Sotomayor and José Luis Sepúlveda.
“With FECICOM we appeal to enrich the experience of life in common, of creation in common, of the dissemination of our creations in spaces founded to welcome and promote community”, says Consuelo Castillo, cultural manager of the Casona Nemesio Antúnez. “We seek to bring together the different people who want to connect, confront and debate as free subjects who know and intuit the vital energy that a meeting like this gives away”, concludes the manager.
In this second version of the Festival, on May 7 and 8, the jury specialized in judging the shorts that participate in the competition section will be awarded by the director of “The mole agent”; Maité Alberdi, the winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Festival for “Gloria”, Paulina García; the director and producer of “The Chilean Building”, Macarena Aguiló and the director of “Mami, I love you”, Elisa Eliash.
Audiovisual co-creation workshops “Let’s make it short”
There will be four workshops, each of them guided by an audiovisual creator and their collective purpose will be to create a short film. For that, Each participant will assume a role in the process, with the accompaniment of one of the four filmmakers.
Each workshop will have four sessions and will take place between April 12 and 30, 2021. You must choose a maximum of one workshop according to your interests and / or availability. The process will be developed with a community approach, both in the logic of the collective work and in the possible contents to be developed.
Queries should be sent to the email [email protected] and thus know the calendar in detail. To participate you must live in the Metropolitan Region and be over 18 years old. The inscriptions are with the entrance totally released and can be found from this Thursday, March 4 at www.fecicom.cl.
Workshop 1 – The Value of Territorial Cinema, with Carolina Adriazola
The workshop will address the basic concepts for the creation of a collaborative short film, developed horizontally. It will work under the popular education model, where each member of the group will contribute from their own form to make a joint creation, always open to the various possibilities. Work will be done in the territory of Villa La Reina, an emblematic town whose self-construction process is considered unique in Latin America.
Requirements to participate: interest in audiovisual creation. No prior knowledge is required.
Workshop 2 – The Cinema of Living Letters, with Rodrigo Sepúlveda
Workshop focused on the construction of a script, which will go through the basic structure of the story; 3 Aristotelian acts; and discussions regarding theme, genre and form. With a thorough review of the script forms, a collective creation of a script will be made to be filmed. This includes the breakdown of Direction and Production of the Script to be filmed and an introduction to post production: Editing, Sound.
Requirements to participate: prove interest and / or experience in audiovisual production, acting and / or script writing. No prior knowledge is required.
Workshop 3 – Learning by Doing, with Ernesto Garratt
Throughout the sessions of this film workshop, the writer and film critic Ernesto Garratt will deliver and explain the main codes of audiovisual language, the ABC of filmic storytelling, with the aim of producing a short film “guerrilla” (recorded with cell phone or archive material, without leaving home, with remote coordination and following all health measures to protect against Covid). Learn by making and using classic film schools and canonical examples at the service of group creativity.
Requirements to participate: interest in audiovisuals and have a cell phone with a camera. No prior knowledge is required.
Workshop 4 – Collaborative and Artisan Rotoscopy by Niles Atallah
Through a pre-advanced structure for drawing and the development of new frames, a collective short film will be developed using the artisanal rotoscopy technique: drawing and animating frames. Each participant will be assigned a fragment of a script and will have to – creatively – translate it into images that will be linked to the stills made by all participants and working together on the post-production of the final short film.
Requirements to participate: Proof of interest in animation, illustration, cinema, plastic or visual arts; willing to work collaboratively with their peers. No prior knowledge is required.
Master class (April 14 to May 4)
Conversations with Ernesto Garratt
Guests:
José Luis Sepúlveda – Audiovisual producer
Dominga Sotomayor – Film director, audiovisual producer and scriptwriter
Aníbal Jofré – Film Producer
Gustavo Graef-Marino – Director, screenwriter and producer.
The second edition of FECICOM is organized by Casona Nemesio Antúnez, sponsored by the Cultural Corporation of La Reina in a project financed by the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage.
For registration and more information you can visit the website from this Thursday www.fecicom.cl.
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