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The Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) and the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón will celebrate its First International Showcase of Ethnographic and Documentary Film in Puerto Rico from the 21st to the 24th of April 2009 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. During four days, the two sponsoring institutions will become a space to celebrate, discuss and share ideas about the visual medium and its potential to develop new forms of knowledge and new expressions from the perspective of the humanities and cultural studies.
We are interested in receiving submissions of documentaries from all over the world that address cultural and ethnographic issues (understood in its broadest sense). Our program will highlight entries that reflect an intimate encounter with the context which they represent and that are committed to a particular point of view as manifest through their cinematographic authorship. A jury, composed of members of the academic and artistic community of Puerto Rico, will offer prizes for the most outstanding submissions, including student films.
The showcase will program a special session of documentaries that address the afro-descendent community of the Americas and its Diaspora and we would like to receive submissions that cover that theme. As part of the special session we will hold a round table discussion with filmmakers, academic researchers and community leaders to discuss some of the social particularities and the politics of representation that surround the African Diaspora.
In addition to showcasing documentaries, we will hold a workshop to present and discuss works in different stages of completion. We wish to receive proposals for presentations, of up to 30 minutes in length, (i.e. rough edits, oral presentations or pitches) of documentary projects that are either being planned, are in production or in post-production. The intention is to create a space where researchers and filmmakers can share their experiences of their project, discuss possible directions their project can take, and analyze recent tendencies in the creative use of the visual medium from the perspective of the humanities.
This event will be open to the general public and will be of special interest to cinephiles, anthropologists, artists, humanists, students and all those interested in exploring the contributions of the visual medium to the representation and expression of contemporary social life.
Submissions must be received before January 20, 2009 at:
Muestra de Cine Documental y Etnográfico
PO BOX 23345
San Juan, PR
00931-3345
For submission forms and more information contact Carlo A. Cubero at muestrapr@gmail.com.
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