Fundación Alumbrar Movies
Fundación Alumbrar has been given numerous awards both in National and International Festivals, in appreciation of the following films made:
The Prisioners of Bragado
Synopsis
In the year 1931, some months after General Uriburu s coup d etat in Argentina, the conservaine caudillo of Bragado, province of Buenos Aires, José María Blanch is sent a crate of apples, which contains a bomb, which causes the death of his daughter, María Enriqueta Blanch, and his sister-in-law, Paula Arroubarrena. Three anarchist workers, Pascual Vuotto, Reclus de Diago, y Santiago Mainini are accused of the bombing. After having been tourtured in the Bragado police Station and forced to sign declarations imprisonment. They remain in jail for eleven years throughout which a solidarity campaign is organized in the entire country with the participation of anarchist, socialist, communist, and meetings are organized and the newspaper “Justicia” is published to broardcast the plight of the prisioners. . The case is known as the argentine Sacco y Vanzetti trial. On the 24 of July , 1942 Vuotto, mainni, y de Diago are released through a conmutation of sentence signed by governor Rodolfo Moreno of the province of Buenos Aires. In July of 1993 a law is approved by the National Congress which declares the prisioner innocenty, the sentence unjust, and calls for the cleansing of the memory ofthe victims.
Declaration of intentions of the author
The objectives of this documentary are basically;
The ilumination of a hisctorical fact obscured by the official history of our country, which allons us to show the strength that anarchist had at the begining of the centuary within the ergentinian workers movement. This promotes discussions in the public about the differents aspects in argentinian history especially regarding the workers movement.
The expression of this history episode from the memory of the participants in these events, with special emphasis on the day-to-day aspects of a solidarity campaign of such impact.
The incorporation in the edition of the film itself. For this reason the history is told in off by the author highlighting the subjective and emotional aspects, which are embodied in a work of so much time and such intimate relationships with the people who appear in the video.
Credits
Tittle: “They Called them of Prisioners of Bragado”
Duration: 45 minutos - Documentary Video
Country Production: Argentina
Year of Production: 1995
Chief of Production: María Pilotti.
Camera: Mariana Arruti, Marcos Montenegro, Raúl Varela.
Sound: Pablo Vázquez
Photography: Mariana Arruti
Montage: Mariana Arruti
Edition: Javier Correa, Leandro Spatz
Assistant Diretors: Pablo Vázquez, María Pilotti.
Music: Bernardo Baraj
Text, Investigation, and Direction: Mariana Arruti.
Awards
Awarded First Prize at the IV Film and Video Contest held in Santa Fe, Argentina 1995 .
Awarded Prize “Jorge Prelorán” Best Documentary Video 1995- Magazine “Sin Cortes”,
International Cinema Magazine, 1995.
Awarded Certificate of County Interest by de City of Bragado for its recovery of the historical memory of the city during the 30s, 1995
Awarded First Prize “Zelmar Michelini” at the First International Festival of Video and Cinema about Human Rights in Latin American and Caribbean (Derhumalc) Category Documentary Short Film, 1997.
Selected for clousing the Gessell Cinema and Video Festival, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, 1996.
In competition for the Cóndor de Plata Best Argentinian Video Film 1999, by he Association of Film Reporters in Argentina.
International Festival's Official Selection
X Trieste Latin American Festival (Italia)
39 th. Leipzig Festival (Alemania)
IX Montreal Festival “Elles Tournent” (Canadá)
3 th Exhibition of Etnographic Films Río de Janeiro (Brazil)
13 th. Chicago Latin American Festival (EEUU)
The films “Los Presos de Bragado” and “1977, Casa Tomada” were released in the cinema by the name : Untell historiesparticipated in the XV International Film Festival in Mar del Plata, (Argentina, 1999)
1977, Home Assaulted
Synopsis
On the 15 th of september, 1977, a blind couple disappear in an operation of repression conducted against their home. Their house is pillaged and then occupied for seventeen years by an Officers Center in the city of Rosario, Argentine. This painful experience took place during the last military dictatorship. It tells the story of a mother searching for her disappeared daughter, her own evolution and the struggle that made her one of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo. This video highlights the crucial role played by women in the struggle against the Military Junta.
Declaration of intentions of the author
The ilumination of a historical fact obscured by the oficial history of our country
To show the damage that this fact produces.
Credits
Title: “1977, Home Assaulted”
Duration: 35 minutes
Country Production: Argentina
Year of Production: 1997
Production: Alumbrar, Foundation for Cinematographic Creation
Text, Investigation and Direction: María Pilotti
Assistant Director: Pablo Vázquez
Cámera: Mariana Arruti, Luis Cámara, Aldo Castelli
Sound: Pablo Vázquez
Photographi: Luis Cámara
Montage: María Pilotti
Edition: Javier Correa, Angel García Zinsel
Original Music: Bernardo Baraj
Periodistic Investigation: Osvaldo Bayer, Carlos del Frade
Director Adress: María Pilotti
Awards
Declared Province Interest. Santa Fe, and Buenos Aires city.
Declared of educative and educational interest. Ministery of Education – Proviince of Santa Fe.
Best Documentary Prize, V International Chilean Festival of Cinema and Video, Santiago, Chile, 1997.
Best Documentary Prize, VI Film and Video Contest, Santa Fe, Argentina, 1997.
Certificate of City Interest, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
“Cacho Pallero” Prize, Foundation Fernando Birri, “to the film that best show the desire of people to live with dignity” VI Film and Video Festival, Santa Fe, Argentina, 1997
First Prize Alternative Movies, FM La Tribu, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1997.
Award Human Rights Best Alternative Movies, FM La Tribu, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1997.
Best Documentary Prize, II Documental Avellaneda, Festival 1999
Human Rights Best Documental, Human Wrights Ecumenic Concillius Avellaneda Festival 1999
FILMVIDEO 2000
51ª. Mostra Internazionale del Corto Montecatini Terme
Participated in the XV International Film Festival in Mar del Plata, Argentina, 1999
In competition for the Cóndor de Plata Best Argentinian Video Film 1999, by he Association of Film Reporters in Argentina.
Award “Citizen Organization ans Social Movements” in Máxico, 2002 II Festival Hispanoamericano “Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces”
Award V Edition “La Sudestada” Cervantes Institute París in “twoo weeks argentine movies” -26 mayo al 6 de junio 2003-
International Festival Selection
XII Trieste Latin American Festival, (Italy, 1997)
XXIV Bahía International Festival, (Brazil, 1997)
14 th. Chicago Latin American Film Festival, (USA, 1998)
The World Peace & Environmental Film Festival (New York, 1998)
United Nations Ecosoc Screening Room)
Innt l Festival of New Film in Split (Croacia, 1998)
41 Internationales Leipziger Festival fur Dokumentalr und Animation film (Doitchland, 1998)
VIII International Video Festival “Cidade de Vigo”, (Spain, 1999)
The films “Los Presos de Bragado” and “1977, Casa Tomada” were released in the cinema by the name : “Historias No Contadas”, “.“Un told histories”.
"The strike of the loonies"
Synopsis
During the year 1956 the Naval Construction Trade Union, an anarquist traditional institution, begun a reclamation referring to their labour’s conditions, demanding a 6 hours daily shift because of unhealthy conditions of work. Besides they requested cultural, free time and living rights.
The owners closed the shipyard. So the workers transformed the owner’s Lock Out in a strike which lasted 14 months. This is known as “ the longest strike of the century”.
They lost the struggle. Hundreds of workers lost their jobs and the owners accepted another Trade Union without any support representing the naval workers.
The naval industry started its decline and practically no ships were built or repaired any longer in argentine ports.
Nevertheless, the Naval Construction Trade Union still remains in the memory of the workers as the authentic Trade Union.
The strike is remembered as a historical and personal event and even today is a milestone in the history of dignity and freedom in our country.
Video System: Betacam SP
Investigation: Mariana Arruti
Duration: 30 minutes
Original sound track: Bernardo Baraj
Sound: Pablo Vázquez
Fixed Photography: Hernán Paz
Photography: Mariana Arruti
Photography of Quinquela Martín Paintings: Aníbal Cattaneo
Cameras: Mariana Arruti – Aníbal Cattaneo
Edition: Emilio Seillant
Script: Mariana Arruti – Hernán Paz
Assistant Director: María Pilotti – Hernán Paz
Directed by: Mariana Arruti
Filmography
The prisoners of Bragado (Un told histories)
Trelew, Long footage film
Awards
Honour Mention II Festival Internacional Iberoamericano
Contra el Silencio todas las Voces” (México 2002)
Best Music Festival de Cine y Video Santa Fe 2002
Interest Declared city of Buenos Aires
Selectión
25 Internacional Festival “Cinéma du réel” Centre Pompidou, France 2003
V Internacional Film Human Wrights DerHumALC, 2003
X Latinoamerican Film Festival – Rosario - Argentina 2003
XII Muestra Nacional de Cine y Video Antropológico Buenos Aires, 2003
International Film Festival Iquique (Chile) 2003
|
|