Friday, April 29, 2011

Quotes For Picnik About Best

- 2 years

This post was originally published in Pixel Black.

Two years have passed and many things in this course. The documentary premiered a Thursday in March 2009. Still moves me the auditorium of the Ministry of Litoral full, with people sitting in the aisles and standing in the background. Oscar Pineda covered the event with a note in The Telegraph and for us that it was enough. Then Silvia Buendía, Héctor Xavier Andrade Chiriboga and write about the video.

The documentary he spent another day on the street, with a projector, on March 6 and August 10. EcuadorTV also aired on a Sunday at 21h00 and then by range on a Thursday at 8.30am causing controversy. He had over 40 missed calls on my phone. Supposedly representatives of the Christian Social party spoke to the news media against the documentary. I woke up at 14h00, hangover. Our

misspelled names came out in all the newspapers. We were told we were going to sue and threatened some of the merchants who participated with us. We had to "hire" a lawyer and we were shit scared. In my cell got a call from Fernando Alvarado, saying that the President had liked our work and wanted a copy. She was never sent. We met with CT Enrique Arosemena, who gave us permission to use a lot of footage (which we used without permission) and clarified that the legal problem for the transmission range was not our business. One year later re-released the film with a new and accurate interview Miguel Salazar Haro. This time the room was filled MAAC Cine.

The Federation of Retail Merchants of the Guayas, on the anniversary gave us a symbolic diploma. Ernesto Toledo introduced us as "two young men break paradigms, which are where no one has called to say what no one dared to say and who risked to show the reality of retailing in Guayaquil. " We took a picture with the symbolic mother of the association. We became merchants panas A couple of officers tried to exploit the Conservatives guaiac branded us as traitors to the city.

With this, our debut , participate in the 1st Meeting of Community Documentary "Image of the People" . We were invited to 2nd Meeting of Latin American and Caribbean Documentary - DOCLAT , which was held in Guayaquil. We met many interesting people and although we can not participate, were invited and "scholarships" to meet the other film festival - EDOC 9, in the city of Quito. Informal Guayaquil for some time hung in the former page EcuaCanal.com and thanks to several friends backpackers, the DVD has covered nearly all Latin America. I am told that the last presentation was a forum of the Landless Movement in Brazil. Stuart

Novoa in his thesis "The activist documentary film and video activism in Ecuador" we review:
"(Guayaquil Informal) is a clear indication of what the activist documentary film in the sense of mobilizing consciousness, the film becomes an act in which people reflect on the state of their city. Reporting is a documentary that questions the municipal management of Jaime Nebot, who has been responsible for persecuting, torturing criminalize and informal traders in Guayaquil. (...)
The documentary filmmakers assume the responsibility to show what has happened in the past, contextualizing the present with a decade of repression by the Guayaquil municipality. (...)
Beyond its technical merit, its main merit lies in its power as a tool to generate discussion on issues Guayaquil that takes for granted. "

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