Colombia. The Film Festival made with cell phone, SmartFilms, presents for its 2020 version two new categories, the first, SmarTIC Inclusive together with the MinTIC, a call in which the best short film will be awarded with 25 million pesos.
Who is the SmarTIC Inclusive category for? It is aimed at amateurs or professionals with any type of disability of all ages. The short film must be produced with a cell phone or tablet by at least one person with a disability and must have a maximum duration of five minutes. In addition, participants must produce the "behind the scenes" and poster of their short film.
The call started on July 30 and closes on October 15 of the current year. The person participating must be a person with a disability and must send a certificate issued by the EPS, not older than one year.
The second category, Crónicas SmartFilms Transmilenio "Women, time and space, a challenge in the face of citizen behaviors and cultural stigmas: respecting women and their integrity in different spaces such as public transport, how do you solve it with citizen culture?".
It is an action stage for all professionals and amateurs of the audiovisual medium over 18 years old, where they will have the opportunity to make a chronicle with a cell phone of maximum 2 minutes of duration (including credits), inspired by the social problems suffered by women within public transport.
In addition, they must attach a behind-the-scenes document certifying that the project was carried out with a cell phone, next to the poster of the chronicle. Ideas must be a creative and transformative proposal that generates solutions using citizen culture as the main tool.
The chronicles can be made within the genres of drama, comedy, fiction, action, and fantasy. Within the rating parameters, the good use of the Transmilenio brand in the scenarios of: Storytelling, Product Placement, Branded Content will be taken into account. The best chronicle will be awarded with 20 million pesos.
This year SmartFilms will have the participation of expert juries in the audiovisual medium. Below we tell you who they are in each of the categories:
1. Motorola Professional Category
Guillermo Arriaga, Mexican writer and novelist
Leonardo Sbaraglia, Argentine film and television actor.
Vanesa Ragone, Argentine film producer, winner of an Oscar award.
2. Lenovo Amateur Category
Marcela Carvajal, Colombian film and television actress.
Ramses Ramos, Colombian film and television actor.
Ramiro Meneses, Colombian actor and director of film and television.
3. Cafam Youth Category
Salomé Camargo, Colombian actress and television presenter.
Julián Cerati, Argentine film and television actor.
William Barragán, Colombian television director.
4. Category Horizontal Filminuto Secretariat of Economic Development of Bogotá
Andrés Barragán, television producer of the program Shark Tank
Juan Gabriel Pérez, director of Invest Bogotá
Catalina Rengifo, Sr. manager for government relations at IBM in Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela and Peru.
5. SmarTIC Category Inclusive Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies of Colombia (MinTIC)
Jairo Clopatofski, High Councillor of the Republic for Disability.
Karen Abudinen, ICT Minister.
Oscar Uriel, Mexican film critic and presenter.
6. Category Transmilenio Chronicles
Maria Elvira Arango, journalist and director of the program Los Informantes.
Mauricio Castro, journalist.
Alejandra Cardona, audiovisual producer and journalist.
For Yesenia Valencia, CEO SmartFilms "From SmartFilms we want to contribute positively to the change we are experiencing, we are creators of stories, this is our contribution to the culture of our country with the help of technology: the possibility that EVERYONE can tell a story and we give them that window before the world, today you can stop everything, but creativity does not"
