TAPOLOGO SELECTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS PROTECTION FILM FESTIVAL “STEPS-2008”, UKRAINE

With support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine, the Union of Filmmakers of Ukraine, WSPA, advisory member of European Parliament and UNO. The Film festival "Steps" is a member of European Documentary Network (EDN, Denmark).

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“STEPS” is the first international rights film festival, that takes place at the territory of Ukraine and CIS and at which the theme of right protection is represented within the extended circle of problems. The festival accepts the films devoted to human rights, animal and nature protection, and films of moral and social subjects, the films that illuminate the political problems.
The main aim of the festival is to draw the attention of the society to the prejudices and cruelty that dominate in the modern world, where the abjection of human rights is bound to the destruction of the surrounding living world. A lot of barbarian customs are often left unnoticed and become the norms of our life. That is why the works of the creative people from different countries will help the viewers to understand that everyone is responsible for everything that goes on around him They will help us to open eyes and look at our life laterally.

The film festival is eager to extend the boundaries of the right protection in order to direct the society towards the moral ideals and values. By means of cinema and video the independent producers, directors, script-writers and actors from all over the world will promote the right area to all layers of the society as well as build the “sensitive society for sensitive creatures”. The film festival “STEPS” will show the viewers the things they have never seen before but must see! The mankind must know this “inconvenient truth”.

Campaign "The ECHO of the festival" - selective demonstrations of the best works, presented on the festival, - holds in Kharkov, Yalta, Moscow, Saint Petersburg.
The president of the Film Festival - Igor Parfenov

TAPOLOGO selected for the 13ª Mostra Internacional do Filme Etnográfico, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

TAPOLOGO selected for the 13ª Mostra Internacional do Filme Etnográfico,
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

Sección oficial, PRODUÇÃO INTERNACIONAL RECENTE

próximos festivales y muestras

TAPOLOGO ha sido seleccionado para los siguientes festivales y muestras:

- Semana de Cine Solidario Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

- FESTIVAL MIRADAS DOC
Sección de competición.

-FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DEL CINEMA DI SALERNO
Sección de competición.

-MOSTRA DE CINE BALAER, Palma de Mallorca

-I SEMANA INTERNACIONAL DE CINE CIUDAD DE MEXICO
Sección de competición.

-FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DE CANCUN RIVIERA MAYA

-TRI CONTINENTAL FILM FESTIVAL IINDIA
Competitive Section.

Próximos Pases de TAPOLOGO en Madrid:

Próximos Pases de TAPOLOGO en Madrid:

Viernes 24 de octubre, 20h
Cines Golem (Alphaville) sala 4,
Martin de los Heros 14,
28008 Madrid
es necesaria una invitación y confirmar la asistencia a:
tapologo@tapologofilm.com / 669 090 575 / 687657420

Lunes 15 de diciembre, 20h
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía,
Salón de actos Edificio Sabatini
Acceso por calle Santa Isabel, 52
Entrada gratuita, aforo 140 localidades
http://www.museoreinasofia.es/museoreinasofia/live/audiovisuales.html

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.

TAPOLOGO: WINNER OF TRI CONTINENTAL FILM FESTIVAL AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SOUTH AFRICAN FILM

PRESS RELEASE: ANNOUNCEMENT OF AWARDS FOR THE 6TH ANNUAL TRI CONTINENTAL FILM FESTIVAL

After almost a month of cinema screenings across 4 cities, the 6th Annual Tri Continental Film Festival successfully concluded in Durban on the 11th of September 2008. This year’s festival reached new heights and continued to grow audiences for compelling cinema from the global South focussing on pressing human rights issues. Worthy of particular mention this year were the screenings of 9 short films completed over a two month period in the run up the festival’s opening in the mid-August, under the banner, Filmmakers Against Racism, commissioned by the Human Rights Media Trust examining the appalling xenophobic attacks that marred the South African landscape in May this year. These short films explored the motivation and social context behind these attacks, the lives of foreign nationals in the aftermath of these attacks, particularly under extremely harsh conditions in temporary refugee camps, the challenges of reintegration, and the inadequate response of public officials.

Each year the Tri Continental Film Festival runs an audience award for recognition of the festival’s outstanding film, outstanding South African film and outstanding short film. We wish to announce that 2008 Tri Continental Film Festival audience award for best film goes to Mick Davie’s The Choir. Filmed over 6 years, this inspirational documentary follows the life of young fellow Jabulani Shabangu as he joins the Leeukop prison choir thus beginning his journey towards self-redemption and eventual release from prison. Controversial and emotionally charged, Davie’s The Choir was embraced by South African audiences and is a worthy winner on this year’s audience award for outstanding film.

In the category best South African film, the audience award this year goes to Tapologo, a South African and Spanish co-production directed by Gabriela & Sally Gutierrez Dewar which explores the impact of South Africa’s mining boom on the labour camps that support the industry and the often brutal realities facing woman in these communities. Freedom Park squatter camp, situated in the Northwest province, accommodates a migrant workforce that mines the world’s single largest source of platinum, and the women in the community service the needs of the male miners as a means of basic survival. A group of HIV-infected former sex-workers have created a network called Tapologo, and have learnt to be home based care-workers transforming degradation into solidarity and hope. This rare film provides a humanising and honest lens to the courageous work of community activists working under desperate conditions.

In the category of best short film, audiences chose Okepne Ojang, Kyle O’Donoghue and Miki Redlinghuys’ humorous and compelling Congo My Foot. Created as part of the Filmmakers Against Racism series, this 24 minute piece tells the story of Tino La Musica, a Congolese band based in Cape Town that is displaced and evicted from their homes at the time of the xenophobic attacks this past May. As narrated by Ojang, an immigrant to South Africa from Cameroon, the film shows the trauma facing foreign nations as they seek to piece their lives together and find future direction in the fall out of the xenophobic attacks. Tino La Musica’s uplifting rhythms and ultimate reunion provide an inspiration backdrop to the ethnic tensions that continue to simmer throughout the nation.

The festival wishes to thank all the filmmakers and particularly South African audiences for their tremendous support over the past month of screenings.