
New publication on the circulation of documentary films in minoritized languages
Found in Translation: Film Festivals, Documentary and the Preservation of Linguistic Diversity
Palgrave Macmillan has just published a new volume that focuses on the international circuit of documentary film festivals to analyze its development and its impact on the visibility, distribution and accessibility of films and to explore methodologies with which to conduct research in this environment. Edited by Aida Vallejo (UPV / EHU) and Ezra Winton (Lakehead University, Canada), the book Documentary Film Festivals Vol. 1 Methods, History, Politics, brings together various contributions by researchers from different centers and disciplines and among which are several members and collaborators of the Audiovisual Studies Research Group.
Written by Antía López Gómez, Aida Vallejo, Mª Soliña Barreiro and Amanda Paz Alencar, this chapter argues that research about minority-language films can be highly enriched if focused on the documentary genre. In opposition to the artificial imposition of dubbing practices, documentary films favour subtitling practices, providing the means for experiencing cultural diversity in multilingual contexts in a natural way, especially in the festival context, where subtitling is the norm.
Based on the R+D Project «Towards the European Digital Space. The Role of Small Cinemas in Original Version» (MINECO CSO2012-35784), a study of the institutional policies carried out by the European Union to foster and preserve linguistic diversity in the audio-visual realm , this chapter looks at film festivals that specialize in documentary film or minority languages, in order to interrogate their role in the visibility and circulation of cinemas featuring minority languages.

The film Morlaix will be screened in the auditorium of the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University of Santiago de Compostela on Tuesday, February 4, at 11 am. Afterwards there will be a colloquium attended by the director of the film, Jaime Rosales, the Professor of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising José Luis Castro de […]
Last Friday, 29th of November, Rocío del Pilar Sosa Fernández, member of the Audiovisual Studies Group, successfully defended her doctoral thesis. She obtained the qualification of Excellent Cum Laude, unanimously, as well as the international mention for her research stay at the University of Aalto in Finland. The thesis was under the supervision of Roi […]
The political auto-biography, making known its construction, the mark of the device, the real as material that ‘must be fictionalised in order to be thought (Rancière) is one of the signs and also the archives re-signified by the writings of the “I”, by the body, by its echoes, by the performance… are entrances through which […]