The children and adolescent community will have the opportunity to live the experience of film production in a real way
Making a documentary that recovers the historical memory of the PROVIPO neighborhood, in Ciudad Guzmán, from the vision of girls, boys, adolescents and older adults is the purpose of the Participatory Film Workshop, which will take place starting tomorrow and throughout the weekends. of the week of February and March in said community.
This is an initiative of Southern University Center (CUSur) of the UdeG, through the Center for Research in Arts, Humanities and Communication, headed by Dr. Jorge Martínez Ibarra, and in coordination with the civil association La Maroma.
“The idea is to make a documentary with the memory of the older adults regarding what it has meant to them to be there, in PROVIPO, as well as the founding process, the difficulties, the experiences, the experiences; and the counterpart is the participatory film project that we are going to do with girls and boys, with the intention of contrasting the stories that older adults tell us about the origin of the colony and how it was founded, with the stories of this children’s community, which They are the third generation, regarding what the feeling of living in the neighborhood is,” declared Martínez Ibarra.
He added that for some time older adults have shown interest in having a document that captures the history of the colony, which is a story of struggle for popular housing, an interesting social movement for the organization to be able to first obtain the land, and then build. the houses, with management and negotiation processes before the authorities; of internal organization, of joint work, of building the foundations of their houses; It is a stronghold in the southern zone and an example of community organization.
“With this participatory film workshop we are going to incorporate the children’s vision of their own reality; We are going to train them so that they know how to make films, that they know the video equipment, the cameras, the microphones; that they know how to write a script, that they record sounds and for this the civil association La Maroma will be collaborating, which does participatory cinema workshops with children and they have had different experiences, with interesting visual experiments where children tell their dreams, stories, needs, sadness,” he said.
Participants will work with a professional technical and human team so that they have fun and feel that part of their essence is captured in the audiovisual products. “We have already contacted 15 children between 11 and 15 years old, and 13 older adults who are in some way linked to the participants in the workshop,” he reported.
Martínez Ibarra expressed that this is a model program that could be replicated in the future in other communities that have already shown interest in a similar project.
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Text: Laura Sepúlveda Velázquez
Photography: Courtesy CUSur
2024-02-09 20:27:41
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