For an entire week and through our website finca.imd.org.ar, in alliance with the platform Octubre TV, 76 films were screened, including feature films, short films, medium-length films and documentaries from 31 countries, many of them national and international premieres. We had the honor of receiving, in our virtual room, guests, environmental activists, and audiovisual producers who shared this meeting through the Special Activities over the course of the Festival.
In this first online edition of [FINCA] we were faced with the challenge of offering the Festival's contents both to the public that accompanied us each year in our previous editions, and to new audiences that joined us to experience the Festival's activities through different digital platforms and everyday applications. This year, the human encounter that usually characterizes the Festival was made possible through a virtual room that hosted meetings, workshops, conversations and interviews with prominent figures, guests and directors engaging in dialogue with the public.
Under the motto "Advocating for a New Climate", the Festival adopted as its main focus the climate crisis, a topic that calls on the cultural field, as well as society as a whole, to take urgent action. In 2019, the United Nations Environment Program stated that unless global greenhouse gas emissions fall by 7.6% each year between 2020 and 2030, the world will not reach the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels established in the Paris Agreement.
On this topic, we had the honor of holding discussions with filmmakers and directors, as well as prominent international guests who were present at the special activities: Vandana Shiva, special guest of the "Advocating for a New Climate" talk, along with journalist Soledad Barruti (author of Malcomidos, 2013) and eco-feminist philosopher Alicia Puleo.
In terms of dissemination, we were featured in over 30 media outlets, including Página/12, Télam, Infobae, Haciendo Cine, and Perfil. We also had the support of social organizations, grassroots media, specialized bloggers, digital magazines and social media influencers who also joined in sharing information about [FINCA].
FINCA IN NUMBERS
- +300 FILMS SUBMITTED
- 76 SELECTED FILMS
- 31 PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES
- 36 SHORT FILMS BY SCHOOLS
- 16 ARGENTINE FILMS
- 11 AWARDED FILMS
- 41 GUESTS
- 16 JURORS
- +30K VIEWERS
- +17K TOTAL USERS
- 53 SUPPORTING ENTITIES
- 26K FOLLOWERS IN SOCIAL MEDIA
AWARDED FILMS
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILMS OFFICIAL COMPETITION
FIRST PRIZE:
Grit (Cynthia Wade and Sasha Friedlander, 2019) - Indonesia.
JURY:
Paloma Andrés Urrutia, Victoria Bornaz, Flavia Broffoni
LATIN-AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY FILMS OFFICIAL COMPETITION
FIRST PRIZE:
Sembradoras de vida (Álvaro and Diego Sarmiento, 2019) - Perú
SECOND PRIZE:
El país sin indios (Nicolás Soto and Leonardo Rodríguez, 2019) - Uruguay
HONORABLE MENTION:
Sintientes (Juan Baldana, 2019) - Argentina
JURY:
Solange Alboreda, Máximo Mazzocco, Ailín Salas
INTERNATIONAL SHORT AND MEDIUM-LENGTH FILMS OFFICIAL COMPETITION
FIRST PRIZE:
El río de los Kukamas (Nika Belianina, 2018) - Perú.
SECOND PRIZE:
Oro rosado (Daniel Anguiano Zúñiga, 2018) - México
HONORABLE MENTION:
Traces (Sébastien Pins, 2019) - Bélgica
JURY:
Bruno Rodríguez, Denisse Laub, Ashly Alvarado, Agustín Alegre
SIGNIS AWARD
FIRST PRIZE:
Sembradoras de vida (Álvaro and Diego Sarmiento, 2019) - Perú
JURY:
Graciela Falabella, Nicolás Luis Fabiani, Miguel Monforte
RAFMA AWARD
FIRST PRIZE:
Sintientes (Juan Baldana, 2019) - Argentina
JURY:
Agustín Premat, Silvia Gabriela Romero, Carla Briasco
VECINE VECINE AWARD
FIRST PRIZE:
El río de los Kukamas (Nika Belianina, 2018) - Perú.
PRESENTED BY:
Cine Lumiton - Museo Usina Audiovisual
SPECIAL ACTIVITIES
Discussion: “Advocating for a New Climate” - an interview with Vandana Shiva by Soledad Barruti.
Special guest: Silvia Ribeiro
Once again, FINCA had the honor of featuring the presence of Vandana Shiva: guide, pillar and leader in the struggle for peoples' food sovereignty against Monsanto and multinational companies, and one of the main voices in the ecofeminist movement.
Audiovisual production from a sustainability perspective, with Paloma Andrés Urrutia
Paloma Andrés Urrutia, founder of the first audiovisual production company specialized in sustainable development in Spain, Fiction Changing the World, offered a free Masterclass and Workshop aimed at professionals in the audiovisual field with a focus on sustainable audiovisual production: how to reduce the negative impact of productions and shootings, and increase their positive impact.
Meetings with Directors
This year, the meeting between audiences and directors that usually characterizes the Festival was made possible through a virtual room where directors of the films in the Official Competition engaged in conversation. For this edition, we welcomed Victoria Solano Ortega, Alfonso Kint, Leandro Rodríguez, Chiara Cant, Juan Baldana, Gustavo Steinberg, Gabriel Bitar, Andrés Catoto, Cynthia Wade, Sasha Friedlander, Sergio Blanco and Michelle Ibaven.
Challenges for Indigenous Cinema in Times of Western Civilization Crisis
What is the place of indigenous cinema within the circuits of film production and exhibition at the regional and international level? In this conversation, we explored indigenous cinema initiatives along with filmmakers who put forward a circular narrative, characterized by a vision of inter/eco-dependence between the beings which inhabit the Earth.
SCHOOLS SECTION
Knowing the transformative power of cinema, we aim at spreading thought-provoking content that not only raises awareness among young people, their families, educators and social environment, but also encourages the sharing of knowledge and practices that give hope to this generation. In the second part of the year we will continue with the campaign "Let's Activate Environmental Education through Cinema" which will integrate, on the one hand, cycles of itinerant cinema tailored to the needs of local leaders and, on the other, (audiovisual and art) training workshops aimed at young people and adults.
- 36 SHORT FILMS BY STUDENTS
- 3 LIVE DISCUSSIONS
- 3 THEMES: ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS, GENDER PERSPECTIVES, RIGHTS AND INCLUSION
- 3 GUESTS: VACABONSAI COLECTIVO AUDIOVISUAL, MARILINA GIMÉNEZ, ORCO VIDEOS
- 1K VIEWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA
