Festival Data:

• Genre: Documentary (click to see)

• Competitive
• Has Panels
• Has Seminars

Festival Website:

Festival Description:

The International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra, Punto de Vista, is a space for celebrating, discovering and analysing the form of cinema generically grouped under the heading of ‘documentary’. It is held annually in Pamplona (Spain) in February, and is organised by the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Regional Government of Navarra.

Punto de Vista aims to be a meeting point for all documentary film makers who, in a free and experimental way, explore the cinema ability for recording time and, as Jean Vigo used to say, “open our eyes and help us to look beyond the appearances”.

The competition has the following awards:

Official Prizes - “Punto de Vista” First Prize for the best film: 10.000 € Prize Jean Vigo for the best Director: 5.500 € First Prize for the best short film: 3.500 €

Special Prizes - The Audience’s Special Prize for the best film: 2.500 € Special mentions: The Jury will be able to award up to three special mentions, worth 1.250 € each.

Journalist Aída Vallejo wrote the following about the Navarra Festival “Culture isn’t made of red carpets and award statuettes, or even books and films… Culture is made of exchanges, thoughts, and inspirations… And Punto de Vista is the right place to come together and talk, to watch, speak, understand, and share. Beyond the virtual nature of remote access and web-mediated artifices, shared spaces are the key to the making of culture. And, for one week every year, Pamplona becomes such a space, where we can see one another, listen to one another, praise and criticise one another’s works in an attempt to lay bare art’s raison d’être: the magic of connecting those sitting in a dark theatre with those whose looks have managed to capture a moment, a motive, a thought on the screen…”

Film Submissions:

• Accepts direct submissions
• Call for Entry: http:/ / www.puntodevistafestival.com/ en/ ultima_edicion.asp?IdSeccion=9&IdContenido=32