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This chapter analyzes the emergence and growth of six regional community film festivals in Colombia. It first offers a brief literature review of scholarly works about community cinema. The category of festivals from the peripheries, the emergence of exhibition circuits and the appropriation of peripheral audiovisualities are discussed and put in dialogue with the category of community cinema. The author proposes that these community film festivals are better understood as long-term processes that go beyond the temporality of an event. She argues that they arise from a territorialized sense of the audiovisual, for which they are referred to as “festival-processes.” This chapter also discusses, through several case studies, how these festival-processes set in motion a series of pedagogical and educational processes that are designed to strengthen communities.
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This research was co-funded by the Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History) and the Secretaría de Cultura de Cali (Secretariat of Culture of Cali) and linked to my master’s thesis in Antropología visual (Visual Anthropology) at Flacso-Ecuador.
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The Sistema de Información y Registro Cinematográfico (Film Information and Registration System, SIREC). This statute, created by Law 814 of 2003, is intended to support policy monitoring and decision-making processes for national cinematography and stipulates that all festivals must be registered in this information system for each festival edition.
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It should be clarified that although this festival does not define itself as a community film festival, as it adheres mainly to a broader affiliation linked to social cinema, its characteristics are congruent with this type of festival and its organizers recognize that the activities and significance of the festival have an important community component.
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Daniela Anaconas, interview by author, February 16, 2018.
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Carolina Dorado, interview by author, March 9, 2018.
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Full Producciones (2019). Escuela Audiovisual. https://www.fullproducciones.com/escuela-audiovisual/.
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Cerquera, N.L. (2023). From the Festival-as-Event to the Festival-as-Process: A Journey Through Community Film Festivals in Colombia. In: Coryat, D., León, C., Zweig, N. (eds) Small Cinemas of the Andes. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32018-7_9
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