Punto de VistaInternational Documentary Film Festival of Navarra (Spanish: Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Navarra Punto de Vista) or simply Punto de Vista Festival (Spanish: Festival Punto de Vista) is a film festival created in 2005 and held annually in the city of Pamplona.
It emerged as the heir of the old Certamen de Creación Audiovisual de Navarra. It is promoted by the Department of Culture of the Government of Navarra and organized by NICDO. It takes place every year in March and its main venue is Baluarte, Palacio de Congresos y Auditorio de Navarra.
Punto de Vista has an antecedent in the Navarra Audiovisual Creation Festival, a festival celebrating audiovisual creations held from 1993 to 2002. Videos, computer animation, and auteur documentary films had a prominent place in this festival; there even was a competition for them. In 1998, CD-ROM and Internet creations were added to the competition, in an attempt to include the new artistic languages that emerged from the use of new technologies.
The Navarra Audiovisual Creation Festival welcomed artists working in the new media as well as programmers and scholars who reflected about the changes in the industry. In 1996 and 1998, two series of meetings were held -Video Meetings in Pamplona and Video/AlterMedia Meetings in Pamplona-, gathering specialists like Eugeni Bonet, Lourdes Cilleruelo, Marcelo Expósito, Gabriel Villota, Carles Ameller, Laura Baigorri, and María Pallier, among others.
Directed by Ana Herrera, the Festival was under the artistic guidance of Rafael Baliña in its first four editions.
In 2002, the Festival was redesigned and the Punto de Vista project was conceived. The last editions of the Navarra Audiovisual Creation Festival included retrospectives that paved the way for the new Festival to explore the territory where the documentary and the experimental converge. Carlos Muguiro was the curator of the retrospectives dedicated to José Val del Omar (1997) and Alexander Sokurov (1999). In 2000, the Festival focused on Chris Marker, with a retrospective curated by Mercedes Alvarez. Finally, in 2002, the festival introduced in Spain, thanks to Efrén Cuevas, a retrospective dedicated to Alan Berliner.
The year 2005 marked the beginning of a new stage: the Punto de Vista Documentary Film Festival was created. Just like its predecessor, Punto de Vista was sponsored by the Directorate-General for Culture of the Government of Navarra. In the period 2010-2014 was organized by the public foundation INAAC
After the Punto de Vista festival had been held uninterruptedly for seven editions, from 2005 until 2011, it was agreed to make Punto de Vista biennial in subsequent editions. Therefore, the festival would be held every two years. In order not to disappear from the map for 24 consecutive months, the management body of the festival decided to develop seminars every other year (2012 and 2014). In 2015, Punto de Vista will be yearly again in an edition organized by the Government of Navarra until 2018, when it began to be fully organized by NICDO.
The festival takes its name from the "punto de vista documentado" (documented perspective) about which the filmmaker used to talk, and since 2007, we have been presenting the Jean Vigo award to the best director.
On the frontier between silent film and the talkies, at a time when historic vanguards needed renovation so as not to fall into repetitive and academic patterns, outside of artistic circles and movements, and from a strange solitude shared with his wife Lydu Lozinska, Jean Vigo approached cinema with the daring of an amateur.
As Maximilian Le Cain indicates in Senses of Cinema, from the outset his film "was rooted in a documentary practice that simultaneously transcended the documentary". He was perhaps the first person capable of demonstrating, as Miguel Marías wrote, the compatibility "between the two basic trends into which film is artificially split: photographic, objective, neutral, realistic, documentary and non-narrative; and theatrical, subjectivist, fantastical and manipulating, fictional and progressively interested in the dramatic construction of the story and the stylisation of images".
His strived to recapitulate and synthesise what cinema had been up until then. But more than that, his was a labour of the future: in Jean Vigo's cinema, some of the most innovative and vigorous seams that run through film in general and non-fiction in particular can be glimpsed. Jean Vigo filmed the people of his time, but he did it in a way that transcended time. His cinema spans decades, cinematographic movements and generations and strike us every time as a fascinating exercise in modernity.
Jean Vigo shot each film as if it was the last; but at the same time, each of his shots as if it was the first. With the daring and innocence of someone doing it for the first time. That's why whenever we think about Jean Vigo we always imagine the recasting of cinema. In him, thirty years of film flowed together and from him all the later revolutions were born.
In all its editions, the Punto de Vista Festival has shown its interest in supporting documentary films, since its creators consider that they are creations that do not have as much space in other places as auteur cinema. In its first edition, it paid tribute to Jean Vigo with the screening of his complete work, and the presence of Luce Vigo, daughter of the French director and bearer of her father's memory.
Navarre documentary film festival Punto de Vista launched in 2010 a project in order to offer emerging Spanish documentary makers the opportunity to shoot in Navarre an essay-like formaudiovisual creation. X Films Project, initiative of Punto de Vista and the Department of Culture, Sports and Youth of the Government of Navarra, recovers the spirit of the Navarre X Films producer, founded by Juan Huarte in 1963 with the idea of producing films that “show a singular artistic interest or represent special values” andspecialized in risky productions, betting by most innovative, ambitious and experimental films, until 80s, when the film producer disappeared.
The aim of this Project is double: on the one hand, provide directors the possibility to develop new works; on the other hand, year on year those workscreate a group of pieces which means an approach to new voices of the documentary to the people of Navarre. Thus, over time a polyhedral approach to Navarre will be generated and, at the same time, mainly, X Films Project foster no fiction audio-visual creations and Punto de Vista becomes a must in innovative spirit documentary makers’ agenda.
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15th EDITION. 2021
14th EDITION. 2020
13th EDITION. 2019
12th EDITION. 2018
11th EDITION. 2017
10th EDITION. 2016
9th EDITION. 2015
8th EDITION. 2013
7th EDITION. 2011
6th EDITION. 2010
5th EDITION. 2009
4th EDITION. 2008
3rd EDITION. 2007
2nd EDITION. 2006
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