Festival Data:

• Established: 1959
• Genre: Television (click to see)
• Attendance: 50000
• Accreditations: AMPAS, FIAPF

• Competitive
• Has Panels

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Festival Description:

In 1959 a group of businessmen and important figures in the cultural world of Cartagena, headed by Victor Nieto, initiated contacts with FIAPF with the objective of organizing an international film festival, taking advantage of the comparative advantages offered by Cartagena, new headquarters of national tourist development, thanks to its historic fortresses and natural beauty.

The Festival, through its national and international screenings, through its stimulus to co production and production agreements, through its relationships with all the segments in the world of Colombian film (producers, filmmakers, actors, actresses, screen writers. Critics, film club members, communications media, etc.) and through the discussion of new film projects and audience formation tries to excel.

Because of its nature, defined in the 1970s, the Festival promotes cultural diversity by facilitating and screening works of Ibero-Latin American and Caribbean countries, by fostering the broadest reception and discussion of the works, stories, tendencies and products of the national film production of this part of the world that means the works in themselves as artistic representations of the identity of the participating countries.

Given the Festival’s selection criteria, each participating film constitutes a genuine message of identity, presenting through film narration, in which the basic values of the national and Latin American people are transmitted, and the social and daily life of the people and the nations represented, the appropriations of historical memory and the representations of contemporary life.

The Cartagena International Film and Television Festival screens Colombian and Ibero Latin American film in diverse formats, with the objective of trying to strengthen the national and Ibero Latin American film industry and to stimulate the knowledge of diversity and national cultural identities.

In the Festival approximately 150 audiovisual works will be presented: 40 feature films, 30 short films and 80 international videos, with the specific objectives of promoting and developing the film industry and allowing this important manifestations of film production the dissemination of the image as a contribution to brotherhood among peoples and the recognition of cultural and audiovisual diversity, the right to their own images and stories.  At the same time we have proposed the promotion of national and international distribution for Latin American film and, especially, for Colombian film.