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globale Rio 2012 – International Movie Festival on globalization
globale Rio 2012 – International Movie Festival on globalization
In August 2012, the second edition of globale festival will take place in Rio.
The globale is a festival that promotes the debate of themes on the globalization processes with a wide range of public through the exhibition and the discussion of audiovisual works of any genre and free format. It is a non-profit and non- competitive festival, thus there are no awards or submission fees.
globale started in Berlin (Germany), in 2003, as a festival of social and political documentaries. It still happens with the purpose that the festival venues keep spreading in order to create a network. These days, it also takes place in two other cities in Germany, in Montevideo (Uruguay), since 2009, Warsaw (Poland), since 2010, and, in 2011, globale got to Bogota (Colombia) and to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
The purposes of the festival are wide:
• Get the public closer to works that through audiovisual language make people sensible, aware and informed.
• Show aspects of reality that are often ignored or distorted by the media.
• Promote interchange, reflection and debates on the globalization processes and identify its impacts and consequences on/to the life of people.
• Get a wide range of public.
How to submit your movie:
For the selection of films/videos to the globale Rio 2012, submissions are open from April 2nd to June 22nd 2012, through sending the audiovisual material in DVD and filling the form available here.
The audiovisual material should approach topics related to the globalization processes from the following axis:
A. Global City:
The expression Global City was created in 1991, in the works of the Dutch sociologist Saskia Sassen. The concept is applied to the metropolis, which are standards for the international capital in their regions, as cities which went or go through huge transformations to host international events. (The World Cup and the Olympic Games are examples). What are the impacts upon the population in these places and their surroundings; who benefit with those processes?
B. Social and environmental conflicts:
A series of changes is produced by the advance of the border in the exploitation of the nature. It affects how people occupy and use the space, which results in the destabilization of relatively autonomous production forms, responsible for the conservation of the biodiversity and environmental resources. Also in the cities, the environmental inequalities become deeper and are connected to the inequalities of class, gender, color and ethnicity. In each country, there have been multiple answers: indigenous population, communities of quilombolas, workers population, youth, small farmers, fishermen and gatherers reinforce and recreate their identities, give a new meaning to their territories and promote the debate on the production model and consumption.
C. Identities and Inequalities:
How does the globalization affect the cultural identities? In a globalized world the exchange of experience among several realities is intensified. Are the opportunities the same for all, despite the differences of origin, color, ethnicity, belief, religion, language, sexual orientation, and, of course, in spite of class? At the same time individuals find more references to build their own identities; purism, racism, intolerance and historical inequalities get stronger. Psychological and practical aspects of the daily life reflect all these things.
D. Big powers:
Multilateral agencies for International Cooperation, multinational companies, sort of traffic, Stock market, how has the capital been articulated throughout the world? Who has decided the destiny of our lives?
E. Alternative media:
Initiatives questioning the news coverage of the mainstream media, presenting an alternative point of view of popular struggles; reports of actions made invisible by the media; also the registration of media initiatives that are communitarian, popular, alternative, free and/or radical in the fight for the communication human right.
F. Art ativism:
“The camera movement is a moral issue”, said Godard, the French filmmaker. The artistic languages are related to politics: they are specific ethic universes and are also dedicated to subjects, such as ideology and power. Beyond mere tools for propaganda, many engagement experiences become intense poetic forms. How does art contribute to the reflection on the whole process of economic, cultural, social, political integration due to the globalization?
It is desirable that the movies in foreign languages be subtitled in Portuguese (preferably), or Spanish, or English.
The DVD should be mailed along with the dialogue list and the authorization for exhibition (see attachment), printed and signed by the makers. On the envelope, it should be indicated to which axis the movie is/are related.
Address:
globale Rio
Rua Almirante Alexandrino, 2603 / Casa 16/102
Bairro: Santa Teresa
Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brasil
CEP 20241-263
The shipping cost should be covered by the filmmakers. Only final versions will be accepted, not copies.
If there is no confirmation of registration within seven days after sending the DVD, please write to: globalerio@gmail.com
Any questions or problems should be reported to the same e-mail: globalerio@gmail.com
Join the organizers:
globale Rio is an open group formed by the gathering of diverse people who work in solidarity and in horizontal way for the organization of the festival. The group aims to develop itself as a local project, at the same time it aims to straighten the relationship with the global network.
IF YOU ALSO WANT TO HELP OR KNOW MORE ABOUT THE GLOBALE FESTIVAL EDITION IN RIO DE JANEIRO, TALK TO US: globalerio@gmail.com
