Call for Arica Nativa Native Film Festival
- Until June 30th.
- For any questions regarding the competition and the festival programming, write to the email [email protected].
- More information here.
The call is open to apply for the international competition of the Arica Nativa 2024 Festival, films that revolve around the rural world, the indigenous worldview, environmental protection, Afro-descendant cultures, and the landscapes of Arica and Tacna, in their 5 categories between short films and feature films.
A festival dedicated to films that for 19 years has invited people to leave the city and conventional movie theaters, to screen on the coast, in the valleys, in the foothills and in the highlands of Arica and Parinacota, Chile, along to the Andean communities.
“We continue to promote creation from rural areas, with the aim of raising awareness about the importance of conserving the planet. In this edition, we propose to go in search of those views that enrich our culture and imagination,” commented the Ariqueño filmmaker Francisco Tarque, programmer of Arica Nativa.
Among the new features for this year, the titles selected for the competition will be available through the aricanativa.cl streaming platform, giving audiences the opportunity to watch the films from the 2024 selection for free, comment and rate them before they are screened. on the festival screen.
“We are committed to creating inclusive spaces, through the selection of works for regional audiences, thus ensuring a great billboard and the opportunity for free access to the cinema,” explained Francisco Tarque.
The categories of Arica Nativa 2024
There are 5 themes available in the Arica Nativa competition, each of which is separated into feature films (more than 40 minutes) and short films (less than 30 minutes), without distinction of genre or format.
– Rural Long and Short Films: Films that portray stories or images of the rural world and the cultural landscape that lives outside the cities.
– Jallalla Long and Short Films: Films that have been directed, produced and/or written by filmmakers belonging to ancestral cultures of the world in which they make visible their perspective regarding their history, customs, rights, territories, languages and traditions.
– Mallku Long and Short Films: Films that portray the beauty of nature (pachamama) and the urgent need to conserve, appreciate and respect it.
– Africa Longs and Shorts: Films that promote and disseminate the cultural richness and problematics of the African diaspora in the world.
– Filmin’ Arica/Tacna: Films that have been produced both in the region of Arica and Parinacota and in the department of Tacna, Peru, by local filmmakers, in which local stories and natural treasures are made visible and promoted. cultural heritage of these two bordering territories.
Jack Lo Lau and Pauchi Sasaki, from Peru, were winners in 2023 in the Jallalla Shorts category with ENTYO: Sisters of the forest, in which they had “the opportunity and responsibility of being able to portray the lives of indigenous Peruvian women in ENTYO, where we show the lives of three indigenous women and how they are adapting to new times. One of the stories is that of Manuela, which is the one with which we won the prize at the festival.”
Each winning film of the festival receives the Tropero statuette and an alpaca textile, both made by artisans, as well as an economic stimulus. In the last edition, Latin American productions were the most awarded. “This award makes us very happy, because we are reaching more people, and more and more people can connect with this powerful story,” Jack and Pauchi highlighted.
Arica Nativa is an initiative of the Altiplano Foundation, and is possible thanks to the financing of the Regional Government of Arica and Parinacota, and its Regional Council; In addition, it also has financing from the Support Program for Collaborating Cultural Organizations (PAOCC) of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage.