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A documentary film program will be part of the Mucho Más Mayo festival.
In this edition dedicated to environmental sustainability with the slogan 'Interdependent, ecodependent' is intended to raise awareness of the problems of socio-environmental, and will also through audiovisual culture.
The councilman of the area of ​​Culture of the city council of Cartagena, David Martinez, has presented this Thursday, May 17, the program that takes by title 'Documentary film and ecological crisis' and a subtitle, 'When the images take position'.
The cycle has been possible thanks to the collaboration between the Department of Culture with different entities.
The mayor of Culture wanted to thank the collaboration of all collaborating entities represented in the presentation of the cycle: the director of the Cartagena International Film Festival (FICC), Esther Baeza;
of the Pact for the Mar Menor, Celia Martínez;
the director of the documentary 'Historias del Mar Menor', Miguel Peñalver;
the person in charge of the project Cellular Memories, Salvi Vivancos;
and the representative of Amnesty International in Murcia, Ginés Gómez.
Martínez stressed that the documentary genre has become a privileged instrument to know and spread the problems of the environment in a culture that is becoming more and more audiovisual.
The documentary film cycle of the Festival of Emerging Art of Cartagena has the aim of generating social awareness about the magnitude and the challenge posed by the environmental problems that the human being is causing.
'Documentary film and ecological crisis' offers three documentaries proposed by the FICC, which tell stories about social and environmental issues in a new way, questioning stereotypes and promoting citizen action.
The three proposals are: 'How to change the world', about the birth of Greenpeace;
'Thank you for the rain', about the struggle of a Kenyan farmer who puts his limits to the test in the face of adversity;
and 'Before the flood', a documentary produced by Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, which puts the accent on the effects of climate change on our environment and on how society can prevent them.
The program is completed with the presentation of the Greenpeace audiovisual campaign on the 'Testamento solidario, a way of traveling to the future' and the documentary 'Historias del Mar Menor', a human approach to the problems of the Mar Menor through the stories lived by people, a production of The Last Tree, in collaboration with the Pact for the Mar Menor.
Much More May has also organized an act of commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the presence in Spain of Amnesty International, with the screening of the short 'Planet J', produced for the occasion, in addition to the long 'Cracks', the documentary that reflects the serious fissures in human rights that this organization fights.
All the complete programming can be consulted in the attached document of this news.
Documentaries can be seen from Wednesday 23 and until May 31, free of charge, at the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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