Monday, October 13, 2008

TAPOLOGO selected for the TRI CONTINENTAL FESTVAL - INDIA

We are delighted to inform you that the selection committee has decided to select the film Tapologo directed by you and Gabriela Gutierrez Dewar for the Tri-Continental Film Festival, New Delhi, India. The festival will kick off in Delhi on 15 January 2009 - 18 January 2009.

The film is also up for the Competitive Section. A jury that includes filmmakers, film critics, film scholars as well as artists judge's films selected for the festival. Tri Continental gives away two awards – Jury Award for Best Film and Jury Special Mention.

Tri Continental is a four-day festival that takes place in the venues of India Habitat Centre and Alliance Francaise Auditorium in New Delhi. There on it travels to Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata.

We are a Human Rights non-profit organisation (Breakthrough). Since our outreach is educational institutions, our audience is generally students and the youth, human rights activists and advocacy groups.


The Tri Continental began in Latin America in 2002, in Africa in 2003 and in Asia in 2004. In India, the Tri Continental began in 2005.

It is organised by Breakthrough, an international human rights organization that uses education and popular culture to promote values of dignity, equality and justice. During the course of the year, films from the Tri Continental are also screened at universities, cultural institutions, citizens groups as well as general audiences.

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