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The <\/span>Humans Lab<\/b>, the audiovisual creation laboratory launched by the International Film and Human Rights Festival of Valencia, Humans Fest, organized by the Foundation for Justice since 2009, has concluded its second edition with the announcement of the winning short film of its <\/span>prize <\/b>economic: <\/span>Alcria<\/i><\/b>, by \u00d3scar Jim\u00e9nez, a work that rescues the history of the <\/span>disappeared Valencian hamlet El Pouet<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00abIt was my first experience in a lab. It was all about excitement, because these are my first steps into the professional world. It is a morale boost to know that my project, which I have been thinking about for so many years, is liked and can lead to something. This award, more than mine, belongs to all the residents of El Pouet, who are letting me tell the traumatic episode they experienced and are rescuing from the rubble all the archives of the village, which is, unfortunately, the only thing we have left of it\u00bb, says \u00d3scar Jim\u00e9nez.<\/span><\/p>\n Specifically, this short film captures the<\/span> neighborhood struggle<\/b> in the late 90s to defend their houses and the historical heritage of the area (such as centuries-old farmhouses, water mills and an ancient medieval irrigation system) against the construction of large housing developments and different leisure complexes that now make up the current <\/span>Campanar neighborhood<\/b>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To this end, its author, the <\/span>journalist Oscar Jimenez<\/b>, who grew up here, has been collecting archive material, including hours of broadcasts from community radio stations that followed these events. Likewise, his own neighbours have recovered images that have been provided to him to document this episode of resistance and loss for the people of Valencia.<\/span><\/p>\n The Humans Lab cash prize is one of the main novelties of this edition, which has been launched with the intention of supporting the script development phase. The selection was made by a professional jury from the audiovisual industry, who assessed the originality of the story, the defence of human rights and the viability of production.<\/span><\/p>\n TWO DAYS OF INTENSIVE MENTORING FOR EIGHT FILM PROJECTS<\/b><\/p>\n Humans Lab has received a total of 1,000 this year.<\/span> 58 applications<\/b>, among which have been selected <\/span>eight projects<\/b>. In addition to <\/span>Alcria<\/span><\/i>, by \u00d3scar Jim\u00e9nez (Val\u00e8ncia), has been the case of <\/span>The puppet<\/span><\/i>, by Fran Mench\u00f3n (Barcelona); <\/span>Submarine<\/span><\/i>, by Lucas Moro and Manuel Rosell (Val\u00e8ncia); <\/span>Moha<\/span><\/i>, by Hugo Su\u00e1rez (Seville); <\/span>The white lentils<\/span><\/i>, by Alicia Arnau (Val\u00e8ncia); <\/span>Pigs and mares<\/span><\/i>, by Maria Ferradas (Valencia); <\/span>I just saw a UFO<\/span><\/i>, by Andrea Segarra (Benicarl\u00f3, Castell\u00f3); and <\/span>Balloons<\/span><\/i>, by Mar Navarro Herr\u00e1iz (Valencia).<\/span><\/p>\n \u00abFilm can be a nightmare and terrible, because it is very difficult to dedicate yourself to this. When they choose a project of yours, even if it is small and you have had it for a long time, it means that they are validating you and telling you \u00abkeep fighting because what you do is cool\u00bb,\u00bb says Fran Mench\u00f3n after his experience at Humans Lab, who has been awarded at the Gaud\u00ed Awards for best short film and nominated for the Goya for a previous work called <\/span>The bus<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n These short films have been chosen for addressing <\/span>issues that affect today's society<\/b> from a human rights perspective, such as LGTBIQ+ rights, the fight against voracious urbanisation, historical memory, women's liberation in different generations, the reality of underage migrants in Spain and evictions, as well as media manipulation.<\/span><\/p>\n All of them have been able to enjoy, over two days, the master classes given by the director <\/span>Almudena Carracedo<\/b> and the director <\/span>Carlos Marques-Marcet<\/b>, who have also held a tutored session <\/span>one-to-one<\/span><\/i> with each of the projects. Added to this is the preparation session for the <\/span>pitch <\/span><\/i>offered by the director and producer <\/span>Rafa Mol\u00e9s<\/b>; a training that later served them to present themselves to the production companies Nadie es Perfecto, with Ana Ram\u00f3n Rubio as their representative; Nakamura, with \u00d3scar Bern\u00e1cer as their representative; and Pau Mart\u00ednez Gonz\u00e1lez, director, scriptwriter and producer.<\/span><\/p>\n ABOUT HUMANS FEST AND HUMANS LAB<\/b><\/p>\n Humans Fest is one of the main activities promoted by the Foundation for Justice with the aim of defending human rights and denouncing their violations around the world through cinema, a powerful tool and power to raise awareness. It is part of the international Human Rights Film Network.<\/span><\/p>\n Its 15th edition (2024), which includes the Humans Lab, is being held thanks to the collaboration of the Vice-Presidency and Department of Social Services, Equality and Housing, the Valencia Provincial Council, the Equality Department of the Valencia City Council, the Valencian Institute of Culture, Caixa Popular and Teika. For its part, the Valencian regional radio and television channel \u00c0 Punt is the official medium of the festival.<\/span><\/p>\n In addition, the Humans Lab initiative also has the support of the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA).<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Su autor, \u00d3scar Jim\u00e9nez, es un periodista que ha decidido documentar al vecindario antecesor de su actual barrio: el de Campanar en Val\u00e8ncia Un total de ocho proyectos han participado en el laboratorio de creaci\u00f3n audiovisual del Humans Fest, a la que se presentaron casi 60 candidaturas Esta segunda edici\u00f3n ha contado con la participaci\u00f3n […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[188,255,156,222,189,254,190],"class_list":["post-12425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humans-fest","tag-cine","tag-cortometrajes","tag-derechos-humanos","tag-festival","tag-humans-fest","tag-humans-lab","tag-valencia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12428,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425\/revisions\/12428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}