From film festivals and Manabi can not complain, because there are only between last year and this one in Manta and Portoviejo have gone "The short film," Ecuadorian film samples, "Human Rights Film Shows" "EDOC", "Cinemarea", "Eurocine", "Film Tour" and "Latitude Zero." But as we all know these festivals come from outside, are minded and constructed outside the geographical limit Manabi, most specifically in Quito, which is why a group of local cultural managers saw fit to make a flowing film festival, new jobs, new values. For this we chose two genres, short films and documentaries. Once the fixed idea: press conference call, knocking on doors, receiving doors slamming, back knocking on doors, sponsorships, other doors slamming, run run, pulled hair, trusses, consolations and satisfactions. And the other side: young people by providing cameras, by hyphens, wondering what is scripted, meeting friends, paying money, shooting, fucking, stress, and delivering their material. Seven and eight documentary short films won the call for six weeks, a significant number, 349 minutes of pure Manabi. Chairs were missing the two-day film festival in the MAAC Manta, in the end all ... all pretty happy.
But now, when the spirits have gone we have to ask what let this festival? What helped us?, Did our national cinema? Is it served the local cinephile?. "Manabi deep" leaves us, as its name, a deep satisfaction that in this province there are people willing to make films, and does, but also leaves a deep concern that the concepts are wrong, the vast influence commercial cinema in the young and the scant information of the basic knowledge in the treatment of a film. The difference between a documentary film and a TV, yet we know, the visual narratives have them confused, how is does not yet have taught us, and the problem is that we in the same direction and not change our path, we are making the histories of Manabi bad "identity" is not intended to be changed but the essence formula.
cuts like "My only love", "Popular for a Day", "Fiesta of Infarction" and "God Felicísimo and Comforter poverty reveal their stories, brought primetime soap opera, canned Disney Chanel and even Christian groups, all this mixed with a little improvisation.
Sunday news documentaries, chains of state, institutional work, and a lot of promotion were superimposed to reflect the tone of the second category.
We know that technology is an ally for new filmmakers, that the difficulties of telling a story with moving images either 8 or 120 minutes are minimal to have a Camera in hand, a dash and a team willing to work, and has already shown that in the provinces "peripheral" audiovisual material there is much that is and will be part of the country's film heritage, but I think it's time to improve, reinvent the ideas, to nurture the stories.
Now, the festival serves to rectify, to address and correct the evil forces, so that the film is synonymous with quality Manabi, and in all parts of the country is This is also because Ecuadorian film. And only succeed through festivals like this are maintained and strengthened over time, if they become an institution, and the spaces open for display, the MAAC cinema is one of them is a prop, essential in this process, and all others, absolutely all we have to lend a hand.
the end ... won those who had to win.