Winners of the 2023 FIFAC Documentary Film Festival Announced at Transportation Camp
2023-10-15 00:10:02 The 5th edition of the FIFAC ended with the announcement of the winners at the Transportation Camp in Saint-Laurent du Maroni. The jury of professionals was chaired by Christiane Taubira. “Adieu Sauvage” by Colombian Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento was crowned best documentary. Cécile Baquey and Ludmïa Lewis • Published on October 14, 2023 at ... Read more The 5th edition of the FIFAC Documentary Film Festival was held at the Transportation Camp in Saint-Laurent du Maroni, with the announcement of the winners of the Best Documentary Prize 2023. “Adieu Sauvage” by Colombian Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento was crowned best documentary. The action of this film takes place in Colombia and the jury chose to award a special prize to the documentary Toshkua by Ludovic Bonleux. Daniel Martínez and Rodrigo Abd traveled to Cabimas, Venezuela, to take a series of portraits with an old wooden camera.
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The 5th edition of the FIFAC ended with the announcement of the winners at the Transportation Camp in Saint-Laurent du Maroni. The jury of professionals was chaired by Christiane Taubira. “Adieu Sauvage” by Colombian Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento was crowned best documentary.
Cécile Baquey and Ludmïa Lewis
• Published on October 14, 2023 at 9:10 p.m., updated on October 14, 2023 at 9:33 p.m.
The Transportation Camp martyred thousands of convicts, human flesh exploited and mistreated from 1858 to 1946. The place became a unique cultural site in the world, a small miracle after years of abomination.
It is here, under the branches of a sublime century-old mango tree, that the professional jury chaired by Christiane Taubira presented the winners of this Amazon-Caribbean documentary film festival.
Below are detailed details of the films awarded by the FIFAC jury, the high school students’ jury and the audience prize.
The Best Documentary Prize 2023 was thus awarded to Farewell Wild by Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento (Belgium – Colombia | 2022 | French – Spanish | 90′ Fox the Fox Productions – Grand Angle Productions).
The action of this film takes place in Colombia. Director Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento, himself a descendant of an almost extinct indigenous Colombian community, sets out to meet the Cacuas to talk about their feelings, their loves and their solitude. There have recently been several suicides among the Cacuas”due to lovesickness”. In doing so, Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento, now based in Belgium, reconnects with his own Indianness of which he was so ashamed when he was a child in Colombia. All with humor and tenderness, the Cacuas try to teach him to live like a native.
Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento was born in Bogota on April 5, 1987, to a lawyer father and a mother who worked odd jobs. Nothing predestined him for cinema and yet, at the age of 19, he left his country for Europe and enrolled at the Beaux-Arts in Poitiers while obtaining a student visa. It was during these studies that he approached cinema and successfully took the entrance exam for the IAD in Belgium.
In 2018, his graduation film Simon cries is spotted and circulates extensively at festivals. We see a young man who, following a heartbreak, literally begins to cry all the tears in his body.
The jury chaired by Christiane Taubira chose to award a special prize to the documentary Toshkua by Ludovic Bonleux (France – Mexico | 2022 | Spanish | 1h20 | Ludovic Bonleux). The documentary traces Mary’s journey from Honduras to the United States in search of her son, a migrant kidnapped in Mexico. At the same time, Francisco, the oldest member of the Pesh community, is fighting against the extinction of the tropical forest. Mary and Francisco each fight in their own way against disappearance.
Since 2002, Ludovic Bonleux has made three documentary films and a photographic essay on political violence and the disappeared in Guerrero, Mexico. His film Guerrero (2017) was selected in numerous festivals. Over the last fifteen years, he has participated in the production of numerous documentaries in Latin America as director, cinematographer or producer. He studied history, photography and documentary cinema in Mexico, the United States and France.
The documentary short film prize was awarded to blue crab (And a Madera Chamber) of Daniel Martinez Quintanilla Perez (Venezuela – Peru | 2023 | Spanish | 23 mins Production Rodrigo Abd and Sheyla Urdaneta). This is an absolutely magnificent documentary.
Daniel Martínez and award-winning photojournalist Rodrigo Abd traveled in August 2019 to Cabimas, on the shore of Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. The goal was to take a series of portraits with an old wooden camera. What they found was an apocalyptic situation: oil leaking from hundreds of oil towers abandoned by the PDVSA company, staining the lake and the fishermen black. Nothing is being done to help the population.
Pocho, one of the former employees of the national oil company, is the guide and protagonist of this documentary. He became a fisherman for blue crabs, one of the rare species capable of surviving in these black and fetid waters. All crabs are exported to the United States.
The author Daniel Martinez distributes its images throughout the world, through film festivals and international media such as HBO or Associated Press. Born in Spain by chance, he has lived in Peru for a long time. Director and activist, he has worked for Amnesty International, the Red Cross, UNICEF and the IOM. His film Charging cycle received the Best Digital Content Award at FIFAC 2022.
The high school jury of the cinema-audiovisual options of the Léopold Elfort high schools in Mana and Balata de Matoury awarded their prize to Kite Zo A: leaves the bones of Kaveh Heard (Canada – Haiti | 2022 | Haitian Creole | 1:08 | Kaveh Nabatian – Zach Niles – Joseph Ray).
This film offers a sensory journey on rituals in Haiti, from ancient to modern. It is produced in collaboration with poets, dancers, musicians, fishermen, daredevil rollers and voodoo priests with the participation of Haitian author Wood-Jerry Gabriel.
Kaveh Heard is an Iranian-Canadian artist whose films bring original stories to life. The director explores the world with his films. From Cuba to Nunavut via Haiti and India. He thus achieved A Crack in Everything, a feature-length documentary on Leonard Cohen, The Seven Last Wordspresented in Rotterdam, as well as Without Havana, which was filmed in Cuba, his first award-winning narrative feature film.
The prize for best digital content 2023 was won by Sarah Almosnino, for Overseas dance (France – Guyana | 2023 | 12′ | 909 Webseries Production). This film tells the story of Murielle Bedot. For her, dance is a tool of emancipation with a strong Caribbean influence at the heart of her creations. Her dance is intuitive, ancestral and inspired by the political and social environment of Martinique.
The public was able to vote at FIFAC and its verdict is Cuban. Lazaro and the shark (Cuba – United States | 2022 | Spanish | 1h16) won the popular vote. The film is signed William Sabourin O’Reillya Cuban based in New Orleans who traveled to present his film at FIFAC.
Lazaro and the Shark is a feature-length documentary that immerses us in the world of Conga competitions at the Santiago de Cuba carnival. Lázaro is the leader of the Conga de Los Hoyos and he is determined to win the coveted conga prize. The documentary gives us a rare insight into Cuba from the inside.
Born in Havana (Cuba) in 1972, William Sabourin O’Reilly moved to New Orleans in 2000 to attend the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Orleans. During Katrina, Wthat Sabourin O’Reilly produced, directed and edited his short film Old Orleans. In 2009 he worked on the documentary One Last Shot under the direction of Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker.
In 2011, William Sabourin O’Reilly won the Best Documentary Short Film award at the New Orleans Film Festival with his film Chasing Dreams. In 2015 he wrote and directed Color Code, Memoriesa documentary about race relations in his native Cuba.
Темы: Documentaries