The Indigenous Peoples Of Chile invite:

Producers, filmmakers and organizations interested in indigenous audio-visual communication and indigenous issues throughout the hemisphere, to participate in the 7th Indigenous Film and Video Festival of the Americas, which will take place June 18 - 24 in the city of Santiago de Chile. We invite you to share our cultures, experiences and projects, and look forward to learning about your own projects and points of view.

We are convinced that indigenous organizations and communities need to generate their own proposals, agreement mechanisms and forms of dialogue and exchange through media. At the Festival, we hope to share communicational strategies involving indigenous communities, and design common working plans among indigenous communicators and organizations.

Through the Festival, the host organizations are seeking to generate access to new audio-visual communication technologies for the use and benefit of Native peoples.

The Indigenous Film and Video Festival of the Americas has been taking place since 1985, hosted by different countries of Latin America. With a spirit of constructive solidarity and under the sponsorship of CLACPI (the Latin American Indigenous Peoples’ Council on Film and Communication), the Festival works with indigenous organizations and other entities involved in audio-visual media in Latin America, to make indigenous realities more broadly known and to promote media within the continent’s First Nations.

For more information, please visit: http://videoindigena.bolnet.bo/
(click on VII Festival).

FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES

June 18 - 24, 2004
Santiago de Chile

• Opening Night
• Festival Screenings of works in competition
• Awards Ceremony
• Special Screenings, Including Retrospectives
• Fourth Inter-American Indigenous Film and Video Meeting and a Symposium On Indigenous Peoples, Internet And New Technologies
• International Meeting Of Clacpi (Latin American Indigenous Peoples’ Council On Film And Communication)
• Cultural Activities (art and photography exhibitions, music, etc.)

FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES

Traveling Festival in the North, South and Central Regions of Chile:

The 7th Festival is planning screenings at indigenous communities in rural and underserved areas. In this way, our images can interlink in a meeting of views and realities, weaving a future of greater justice for our peoples.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

PARTICIPANTS AND THEME
The 7th Festival is open to all who have filmed and/or produced films and videos on the history or contemporary reality of indigenous people and First Nations of the Americas. This includes filmmakers/producers and producing organizations located outside the Americas that have worked on themes central to this Festival.

COMPLETION DATE
Works presented at the Festival should have been completed as of January 1st, 2000.

LANGUAGES
Works will be accepted for submission in their original language, preferably dubbed or subtitled into Spanish, or accompanied by a Spanish transcript of the dialogues/texts. Please include a Spanish version of the Synopsis and Technical Specifications in the Registration Form.

GENRES/FORMATS/SYSTEMS
The Festival is open to all genres except commercial programs. Works will be grouped into the following selection categories:

• Fiction
• Documentary
• Docu-Fiction
• Animation
• Experimental

Submission Formats
Film: 35 mm; 16 mm; Super-8 mm
Video: Digital Video (Mini DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO); BETACAM; U-Matic 3/4; U-Matic SP; S-VHS; VHS; Hi-8 mm
*Preferably, videos should be NTSC, but other systems are accepted

SELECTION PROCESS
Selection of works will take place in three stages:
1) Pre-selection (April 12-25, 2004)
2) Final Selection (April 26-30, 2004)
3) Awards and Mentions: Qualifying Jury decides on by April 24, 2004, day of Closing Night Awards Ceremony in Santiago de Chile

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION AND AWARDS
The films and videos will be selected and awarded on the basis of the following criteria:

• Respect and dignity of indigenous peoples
• Indigenous participation in production processes
• Contribution to the strengthening of identity and culture
• Contribution to the organizational processes of indigenous peoples and First Nations
• Recovery of cultural expression that is endangered or being assimilated
• Aesthetic and narrative contribution
• The way the work reflects indigenous people’s and First Nation’s right to freedom and self-determination, as well as notions of “development” from an indigenous perspective.

AWARDS AND MENTIONS
Awards will consist of Indigenous artwork, plaques, and certificates. We do not anticipate cash awards. The jury may award Honorable Mentions in technical and content categories, according to the merits of the works in competition. The Festival designates the following Awards and Mentions:

• Award for Preservation of Indigenous Identity and Culture
• Award for Defense of Indigenous Rights
• Award for Empowerment of Indigenous Peoples
• Artistic Creation Award
• Best Fiction with Indigenous Participation Award
• Testimonial and Documentary Values Award
• Award for Achievement in the Audiovisual Field
• Award for Best Mise en Scène
• Audience Award

*A Special Award will be granted from the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.

ENTRY DEADLINE (EXTENDED)
Works will be accepted through APRIL 20, 2004

REGISTRATION FORM
Works entered should be accompanied by a completed Registration Form (see link below).

CREATION OF AN INDIGENOUS AUDIO-VISUAL ARCHIVE: STRENGTHENING AN INDIGENOUS NETWORK

With the aim of creating a local Audio-Visual Archive and strengthening a continental indigenous network of community dissemination, the Festival organizers ask of the Festival participants if they would contribute their works to a non-profit Indigenous Distribution Network (see linked Registration Form below) by:

• donating the film(s) and/or video(s) which they enter into the Festival, OR
• allowing the organizers, prior to the return of the work entered, to make a dub of their work(s) for inclusion in the Archive and for the Network.

SHIPPING AND HANDLING COSTS

Applicants are responsible for the mailing costs for submitting their works to the Festival. Interested parties may consult the respective Chilean embassies and consulates abroad, for safe delivery via diplomatic courier (if available).

PARTICIPATION IN FESTIVAL SEMINARS

The Festival has planned five sessions for the Fourth Inter-American Indigenous Film and Video Meeting and a Symposium on Indigenous Peoples, Internet and New Technologies. In order to better assist in providing meals and lodging to participants, potential participants of Festival Seminars should email the festival, specifying the organization or entity they will represent, briefly stating their interest in attending and giving their contact information before May 30, 2004.

To ensure participation as a presenter in the above mentioned Seminars, prospective presenters should also submit a summary of their presentation and of their proposed topic. The deadline for Seminar submissions is April 15, 2004. Proposal responses will be sent by fax/ or mail through May 30, 2004.

*Please contact us if you need a letter of invitation to attend the Festival.

SHIPMENT

All works, Registration Forms, still photos and other promotional materials and translations, etc. should be mailed to:

Jeannette Paillan
Coordinator, VII Festival Continental de Cine y Video de los Pueblos Indígenas
Consejo Latinoamericano de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indigenas (CLACPI)
Centro de Estudios y Comunicación Indígena Lulul Mawidha
Av. Américo Vespucio 1587 Dpto 14- Macul
Santiago – Chile

Tel./Fax: 56-2 –271-4845
E-Mail: jeanettepaillan@hotmail.com or paillan@terra.cl or festivalindigena@yahoo.es

For further information in English please contact:

Amalia Córdova at cordovaa@si.edu

REGISTRATION FORM

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