Another Narratives: writing a sustainable future on screen

Date: 03.05.2024
Hour: 10 – 14 h
Place: Sala Z de Tabakalera (Pl. de las Cigarreras, 1, 20012 Donostia-San Sebastian)
Registration deadline: Before 30 April 2024, the name, surname and ID number of those who wish to participate in the event must be submitted to the Department of Thought and Discussion (eztabai@sansebastianfestival.com).

The urgency imposed by the deterioration of the planet calls for stories that are up to the task. Are there films that can imagine the path towards a more sustainable society? With the conviction that cinema can change the world, we are launching this training course, which will allow us to begin to construct fictions and narratives that appeal to our emotions to take on the great threat of our time: the climate crisis.

The workshop will consist of three phases. First, Marta García Larriu, director of the Another Way Association, will put the situation of global warming and the concepts associated with sustainable development into context. Next, we will analyse new approaches to the relationship between the climate crisis and audiovisual narrative. Finally, Spanish filmmaker Óscar Pérez Ramírez will propose a group dynamic to stimulate creators to incorporate environmental issues organically into their stories.

• Marta García Larriu is the founder and director of the cultural association Another Way. Its flagship event is the film festival on sustainable progress: Another Way Film Festival, which has just closed its first French edition in the city of Bordeaux and is preparing the 10th edition in Madrid (Oct. 2024). The Association also creates national and international film cycles, as well as training courses on sustainable audiovisual production and alternative narratives. Marta is also an international independent film producer. She has been the president of the SANNAS Association, companies for the triple bottom line and for almost 4 years the president of MATRIZ (the network of film festivals in Madrid). She participates as a speaker at different events, has been a Greenpeace jury member at the San Sebastian Festival and has written the chapter Sustainability in the Spanish audiovisual industry in the Report on the State of Culture in Spain 2022: the audiovisual sector, towards a sustainable and diverse growth of the Alternativas Foundation.
• Óscar Pérez Ramírez studied film at the London College of Communication and is a lecturer in documentary film at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), the ECAM, the NIC (Madrid Film Institute) and content creator for TVE's Proyecto Haz. Recently, he has collaborated as a pedagogue in the film programme for schools, Cine en Curso, and as a workshop leader at the EICTV in San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba). His short film 'El sastre' (2008) won at IDFA (Amsterdam) and obtained the Cinema Eye Honors (New York), the film merit award at the Listapad International Film Festival (Belarus) among other awards. In 2011, he directed 'Hollywood Talkies', which competed at the Venice Film Festival and, in 2014, he directed 'El Tram Final' (2014), which won the Silver Biznaga for Best Director at the Malaga Festival. 'La Mejor Opción' (2016), her first fiction feature film premiered at Viennale and won the award for best leading actress at Cinespaña (Toulouse). Currently, she has finished shooting 'Leaving the nest', a short film that is also the pilot of a fiction series about the irruption of the wild in the urban, entitled 'Natural'.