Family photo of the jurors and the organization team of the Transhumant Festival 2024
On Saturday, October 12, 2024, at the end of the festival held in the theater of the old Hotel Balneari de Montagut, in Campelles, there was a lecture by the photojournalist Gervasio Sánchez who received the prize for photographic career in the church de Montagut, the presentation of the exhibition Retratistes de ciudad, la Prosperitat with the photographer Gemma Miralda, the performance of the Afro-Poet rapper Daura Mangara and the announcement of awards with the closing gala led by the actress and communicator Txé Arana.
The jurors of the Transhumant Festival 2024 have decided to award the following awards..-
We bring social cinema with values to places where it doesn't reach:
In small towns and vulnerable groups.
Ribes de Freser. 29-12-21. One hundred people attend with anticipation the presentation of the book "the mysteries of the golluts or dwarfs of Ribes" at the Municipal Theater of #RibesdeFreser that breaks the myth of the community of people who lived in #Ripollès until the beginning of the 19th century. People who were discriminated against for their physical appearance and their diminutive height, and some developed goiter, a product of malnutrition, extreme conditions of poverty and social isolation. The book provides historical documents and the first real and truthful photographs of the so-called Ribes dwarves who were found throughout the #Ripollès. The book is on sale in the shop of the website www.transhumant.com and soon in different points of sale in the #Ripollès.
The event was attended by the two authors of the book, @miquelsitjarserra and Joaquim Roqué, hosted by journalist Mònica Pagès and presented by the mayor of Ribes de Freser, Mònica Sanjaume. The event was held following the #covid-19 prevention measures with the organization of the Trashumant festival in collaboration with the Ribes de Freser City Council. The book has been published by Miquel Sitjar and Dinamic Enginy, under the brand Edicions TRANSHUMANT with the support of the Girona Provincial Council and the Generalitat de Catalunya. "The Mysteries of the Golluts or Dwarfs of Ribes", is available for sale online in the shop section of the website www.transhumant.com and at the points of sale in Ribes de Freser of @ita_decoracio_i_complementos @pocacosa_by_sandra @lacaixetaribes
and @papereriaarcada. Soon to other points of sale in other towns.
BUY THE BOOK ONLINE
The success of the Terra G· Film Festival, which in 2021 expanded to twenty-three towns, forty-eight different venues, 2,300 in-person attendees, and 12,500 online viewers, has led to the creation of a new project. This initiative takes a step forward in bringing cinema to rural areas, separate from the main festival held in the fall. A project with its own identity that spans itinerant sessions from May to September: CINEMA TRANSHUMANT.
Inspired by transhumance, the seasonal migration of herds in search of pastures depending on the time of year: summer pastures or grazing fields and winter pastures. Transhumance also involved the exchange of cultural knowledge and interactions between different geographically distant territories.
The TRANSHUMANT sessions are held mainly outdoors, as summer screenings, where we bring our open-air screen, films, workshops, and parallel activities to different towns along the traditional transhumance routes of Girona and the Pyrenees. These sessions are hosted in places and for communities where cinema rarely reaches.
Just as when a herd of livestock arrived in a village after a long journey, the traveling culture impacts and transforms the places where it is showcased.
The main goal is, through the values that cinema brings in a pleasant atmosphere, to spark personal change. At TRANSHUMANT, we believe that with the individual power of each person, it is indeed possible to change the immediate world.
The films to be screened go beyond the catalog of the Terra G· Film Festival, but all share a common theme: a committed message and the transmission of human and environmental values. There will be a total of 33 sessions across 26 different venues.
It is a film festival committed to social transformation.
It is a project led by Joaquim Roqué, who has been the director and promoter of the festival since 2014. It has showcased national and international works that focus on social awareness, environmental issues, or some form of activism in favor of human rights and cultural diversity.
All of them have been shown to regular audiences who could be those of any other festival.
Often, festivals remain in the phase of raising awareness among audiences, and the awards they grant only give a certain communicative relevance to the works.
However, TRANSHUMANT takes a step forward, moving from "theory" to practice. The project's main goal is to transcend beyond the cinematic experience.
Cinema is a powerful tool for transforming consciences, habits, and attitudes... Immersively, and with activities that add value to the films: testimonies, discussion panels, film forums, educational workshops... We also aim to reach another type of audience—viewers with social or humanitarian needs. Designing actions to help them gain perspective on their personal situation, creating empathy with other groups or issues that will help them overcome their own circumstances. Using cinema as the instrument to achieve this.
The TRANSHUMANT FESTIVAL has its origins in the Golluts of Ribes, a community of people who were discriminated against for their physical particularities until their complete disappearance in the mid-20th century. They measured less than 1.2 meters in height, most of them had goiter, a harmless but unattractive malformation. Scientists of the time described them as a subrace.
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