CAÑADA DE GÓMEZ: Cortos 72 horas

Filmmaking festival for young people

Once a year ever since 2011, hundreds of young people and filmmakers have been turning Cañada de Gómez into a huge open-air film studio thanks to a festival on short films organised by the local government.

Its participants are secondary students from different schools in the city and the region. Randomly placed into teams coordinated by professional audiovisual creators, their mission is to make ten short films from scratch in just three days, covering all the stages of filmmaking, such as scriptwriting, filming and post-production. The adventure rounds off with a premiere session at which the films are screened to thousands of cinemagoers.

The experience was created to provide a meeting space for young people in Cañada de Gómez to forge social and community ties while expressing their views on the world around them. The filmmaking aspect (a collective art par excellence) provides a framework for contextualised learning, allowing participants to reflect on the problems facing young people while unleashing their creative potential. The short films address relevant topics such as the impact of technologies on life and society, disability, school bullying, discrimination, sexual diversity, friendship, human trafficking, gender equality, human rights, etc.

The festival guarantees free and equal access to audiovisual technological tools, so that the town’s young people can develop teamwork skills, competencies and aptitudes in community and collective settings. Measures are taken to ensure that the participants work together with other young people from the city and the region with different sociocultural realities, which fosters diversity and raises awareness into fairness and social inclusion.

Organises: Cañada de Gómez City Council
Contacto: Ms. Stella Maris Clérici
E-mail: intendencia@mcg.gov.ar

More information at the IAEC Bank of Experiences.