The Valencia International Film and Human Rights Festival, Humans Fest, organized by Foundation for Justice, presents the official poster for the 17th edition of the festival, which will be held from May 28 to June 6. It is a work by the designer PdPiera (Alba Piera), designed jointly with the Valencian illustrators' cooperative Febra Estudi. A composition with several characters and visible elements that evoke the defense of the rights of children and young people, the central theme of this year.
“The composition of the poster aims to rto emphasize the importance of an active childhood and youth, ”They are committed and assertive,“ explains Alba Piera, an illustrator and graphic designer from Valencia. ”We wanted to reflect that, but also emphasize that they are still children. That’s why we see the wooden pieces. We made them like that as a hyperbole, so that they would be objects with which the characters would interact and perform certain actions,” she argues.
Thus, we see figures defending the planet, child soldiers protesting against war, and even a young woman directing films. These elements are especially relevant in a festival edition that will call for decisive action to defend, protect, and guarantee the rights of future generations.
“In this year’s Humans Fest poster, we evoke the need to listen to children and young people who are asking for space and claiming their own voice,” explains the director of the film and human rights festival., Pilar Almenar. The figures, in his words, demand “the right to peace, to a habitable future, to education and to identity. ”A generation of children and young people who are watching us and demanding that adults take responsibility for the conflicts we are creating today, which will have an impact on the future of everyone.”.
Alba Piera has illustrated campaigns for Ecologists in Action, socio-labor studies, neighborhood movements, and International Women's Day (March 8th) demonstrations. She has worked on features for media outlets such as El Salto and designed the identity for self-publishing festivals like Autozine. She also teaches workshops on illustration, fanzine creation, and printmaking. She created the poster for the 17th edition of Humans Fest with Febra Estudi, a graphic and creative cooperative formed by illustrators GalletaMaria, EixaesIsa, and herself, who work with social commitment as the core of their projects.
Humans Fest is part of the international Human Rights Film Network, along with 52 other human rights film festivals worldwide, and is a qualifying festival for the Goya Awards in the Short Film category. The 17th edition is made possible thanks to the Valencian Institute of Culture of the Valencian Government; the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA); the Valencia Provincial Council; Caixa Popular; the Valencian NGO Coordinator (CVONGD); and the collaboration of the Ministry of Social Services, Family and Childhood, Directorate General for Inclusion and Development Cooperation, and Teika. The Valencian regional broadcaster, À Punt, is the festival's official media partner.