For those of you that don't know about this great festival, PUNTO DE VISTA
[1]is possibly the best film festival in Spain, dedicated to 'documentary
films', it seeks to reward risk-taking and non-narrative approaches and has a
strong accent on experimental films. Last week, Josetxo Cerdán, its artistic
director, was told that due to severe budget cuts (despite the governing
political party's supposed 'commitment to culture'), the festival would be no
more...
The Punto de Vista Festival has shown works by Raymond Depardon, Jean Vigo,
David Perlov, Jay Rosenblatt, Alan Berliner, J. P. Sniadecki, James Benning,
Naomi Uman, Lynne Sachs, Ben Rivers, Ross McElwee, Satô Makoto, Jem Cohen,
Barbara Hammer, Ben Russell, among many others...
Please, take just a couple of minutes to support this Punto de Vistasigning the
online petition here:
http://actuable.es/peticiones/carta-apoyo-al-festival-cine-punto-vista-pamplona
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/On September 15th I received a phone call telling me that they were suspending
the Eighth Edition of Punto de Vista to be celebrated 21st to 26th of February
2012. /
/Not only me, but part of the festival's team have been working hard since the
month of May designing the program for the next edition. Almost 500 films have
been submitted since the call for entries was announced on May./
/This ardous work of four months together with some expenses regarding
programming and production (such as maintenance and monitoring of
registrations, traveling to other film festivals and shipments) is now wasted
money. / /Next year's edition program is closed on a 90%. We designed the
poster and the cinema campaign. Not to mention a private founding program that
was requested early this summer and their response was coming in a short period
of time. All personal, professional and economical efforts are now inevitably
lost. This is happening at times where austerity policies prevail./
/Punto de Vista, in its 2011 edition reassured a strong and varied audience
leaving behind its label of "elitist". A label that had unfairly haunted the
festival since its own creation: I would rather say intelligent, not elitist.
How can an activity that has a fee of three euros for each event be considered
of elitist? Punto de Vista is a festival for the enjoyment of all the people of
Navarra and for all those who came from abroad (from all corners of Spain and
other countries) to Pamplona in order to attend the Festival. Visitors who came
on february, the coldest month of the year to increase the community's economy
on the tourist sector in terms of: hotel reservations, restaurant and bar
consuming, transporting, etc./
/As I have said repeatedly, Punto de Vista have become one of the most
important film events of our country and also with an increasing recognition
abroad (as it has been witnessed in some prestigious magazines like Cahiers du
Cinéma, Sense of Cinema and Art Forum, among others). All this success with a
total budget that was three to four times less than of any other spanish film
festival in Spain with a same status on the quality of its programming. /
/The //UPN (Unión del Pueblo Navarro Party) stated on the past elections that
Punto de Vista Film Festival should be the "Referral Program" in the film area
of the current Navarra Government. //These "Referral Programs" were a series of
initiatives that "Were needed of more funding to increase their activity and
promotion'"/
/(Muévete por Navarra, Electoral program. Unión del Pueblo Navarro 2011-2015,
pg. 41)./
/Where are those election promises now? /
/Where's the defense of a cultural activity with an //increasing recognition
inside and outside of Navarra and Spain? /
/Where is the commitment to a Navarre audience that this festival has
consolidated over seven editions? /
/And finally, where is the commitment to a whole group of professionals who
have made it possible until now, and who already committed to filmmakers from
different places such as Germany, Malaysia and the U.S.?/
/Sincerely,/
Josetxo Cerdán
Artistic Director of Point of View Festival 2012
VÃnculos:
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[1] http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/indexEN.asp
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