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As part of its new features for this year, the festival presents the "First Smart Films International Congress - Towards an Orange Economy." Also, there is a new category called Inclusive Smart ICT, in which amateur filmmakers with any kind of disability can participate. ATmedios, as the festival's partner and sponsor, made some of the finalist films accessible.
Colombia's Television National Authority (ANTV) issued the law that regulates the implementation of access systems for the hearing impaired in contents broadcast through the public television service.
Taking into account the rights of the deaf and hypoacusic population and ANTV's role as regulator of the public television service, Ruling 350/2016 was issued. It compels concessionaires of television spaces at Canal Uno, open television operators with national, regional and local coverage, as well as paid television operators with self-produced programming to implement systems that guarantee access to television for this population.
The film "Home, the Country of Illusion", directed by Josephine Landertinger, will have its premier during the 56th Cartagena de Indias Film Festival (FICCI).
"Home (...) is a psychological documentary... life decisions vs. fate, the face of a mother filmed by her daughter, a poetic journey into our inner home."
The movie, a Colombia and Portugal co-production, participates in the Colombian cinema official competition against films such as "The Nobodies", "With the Lips Closed", and "Wounded Night."
The film is spoken in Spanish, Portuguese and English and will be screened with subtitles in English and Spanish provided by ATmedios.
Since 2015, Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival has had a space where movies are accessible for people with visual and hearing disabilities in Colombia. It's the "Movies for Everyone" project. In the festival's 56th Edition, the project will feature eight movies from the Colombian, Argentinian, Mexican and Chilean industries. These films will have accessibility systems such as audio description, sign language and subtitles for deaf people.
Read more: Audio description, sign language and subtitles in FICCI movies
Since 2012, the "Movies for Everyone" project has been making cinema in Colombia accessible to people with visual or hearing disabilities through audio description, Colombian sign language and subtitles for deaf people. This initiative of the ICT Ministry has the support of Fundacion Saldarriaga Concha and Cine Colombia and relies on ATmedios' experience in providing accessibility systems and technical support in each movie screening. Films are projected on the last Saturday of each month at Cine Colombia theaters in various cities around the country. A new cycle with accessibility systems for people with visual and auditory disabilities starts on Saturday, February 27.
