ARGENTINA / 81 MIN / 2016 / DOCUMENTARY / DCP 2K / 1.85:1 / STEREO / COLOR
Subtitles available: English
School n.1 of San Clemente del Tuyu, Buenos Aires, is a small public school in the middle of the woods. There traditional learning mixes up with alternative methodologies. Students say that they not only learn about Science or Geography but about “things of life”.
La escuela Nro. 1 de San Clemente del Tuyú, es una pequeña escuela pública en medio de un bosque, que combina la enseñanza oficial con metodologías alternativas. Los alumnos que asisten allí, dicen que no solo aprenden lengua o geografía, sino que allí aprenden “cosas de la vida”.
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Festivals & Awards
- Muestra DOCA (Argentina, 2016)
- FIDBA (Argentina, 2017)
- Festival Internacional de cine de Derechos Humanos de Bogotá (Colombia, 2017) – Special Mention
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Interviews & Reviews
- Cineramaplus por Mariana Fruiz – ‘refugio de contención, amor y aprendizaje’.
- A sala llena – Interview
- A sala llena – ‘Escuela Vida es eso que el título transmite: se reaviva el interés en una actividad escolar, renace el entusiasmo por estar en el colegio, se le inyecta vida a un proyecto que realza los valores y la importancia de lo colectivo. Una idea que sobrevivió en el tiempo y se revitaliza con un documental que no defrauda por su calidez y calidad’.
- Escribiendo Cine – Interview
- La Nación – ‘Regida por el clima y la cooperación grupal, la mirada de Estévez sortea el abordaje tradicional y se adhiere a la experiencia vital de los jóvenes, a los esfuerzos que implica la creatividad y el desarrollo artístico, a la organización más allá de la competencia y la autoridad’
- Haciendo Cine – Interview
written and directed by
Silvina Estévez
producer
Silvina Estévez, Gabriela Luraschi
cinematographer
Nicolás Pittaluga
film editor
Leo Zaffaroni
sound designer
Martín Vaisman
distribution and world sales
ShortsFit
director's bio
Silvina Estévez is a young filmmaker from Argentina. Her first audiovisual experiences were at Buenos Aires on 2009 while working as a photographer at the film "Solos en la ciudad" directed by Diego Corsini. On 2010 she developed as director's first assistant on the feature film "The Italian key" directed by the finnish Rosa Karo. On 2013 she collaborated with many choreographers making video-dance movies that where screened in many urban spaces. On 2014 she writes and directs her first documentary feature film called "Escuela Vida" with the support of INCAA, Argentinian National Institute of Cinema . On 2015 she shooted Bailabilonia, a documentary video-dance medium length movie with the support of PRODANZA. By the end of that year she directs a fiction short movie called "Santa María de los Buenos Aires", an ambitious project with the participation of her aunt, the famous actress Ines Estevez, and the support of patronage. On 2016 she finished her first feature documentary film. Nowadays, Silvina is working on the post-production of two short movies.