Women Creator: Art, culture and creativity

2009 was the European Year of Creativity and Innovation and such was the occasion of commemoration of the third edition of Women Creator in Extremadura. This initiative has entered into this third year demonstrates once again that women and men are fighting for equality, non-discrimination in all areas and awareness throughout society.

Women Creator 2009 is an open space from Extremadura to the art, culture, creativity and expression made by women: the result of their concerns and interests. But it also brings attention Women Creator in Art, Culture and Creativity as tool for social transformation.

Women from different parts of the world, noted for their work and perseverance the artistic enterprise environment for social and cultural, have been the protagonists of Women Creator Meeting 2009. The organization is working to present the fourth edition of this event inExtremadura that both monitoring and successes achieved.

María Lorenzo: between portraits and acetates

María Lorenzo Hernández is a 33 year old from Alicante (Spain), who performed "Retrato D" in 2004 after studying Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, where after some initial work in the animation to achieve some impact, makes "La pantera de Rilke "(2000) where he experimented with the concept of animated painting. "Portrait of D" confirms its position as a professional filmmaker, having been awarded in many Spanish festivals and has participated in festivals such as Annecy (France), the festival of Zagreb in Croatia or Animamundi in Brazil.

In the beginning, she had a passion for painting, but she saw the use of the prop as outdated, while the animation on acetate, painting, it was very attractive. Through her work, makes a clear statement and an offering to his inspiration, the Swiss animator Georges Schwizgebel, who paints with acrylic, gouache and other pigments on thousands of acetates. Acrylic paint on acetate is a process inherited from the classical animation, and today nobody uses, "but Mary has found a way to innovate in this regard, turning to the support and painting the front, as if it were on canvas or paper, so the vibe painted form one image to another.

At the end of this article, we share a picture of one of his last works, La Flor Carnívora, a new success of the cheerleader, present in many festivals.

DONA´M CINE: Made by women and about women Festival

The Festival is called DONA'M CINE and is the I International Competition of short films made by women in solidarity on women. The deadline for receipt of works is up to the Oct. 25 th in this online festival which has the support of many organizations and associations and is described by the Organization as follows:

DONA'M CINE is an audiovisual project promoted by the Association Entrepueblos / Entrepobles / Entrepobos / Herriarte, working in partnership for over 20 years, and producer Dual Band, with extensive experience in film and social documentary content. This project receives financial support from the Catalan Agency for Cooperation for Development (Generalitat de Catalunya) yl'Ajuntament d'Olèrdola del Penedès.

DONA'M CINE is a festival that provides a starting point towards the collective construction of a network for exchange of audiovisual materials on the internet done by women, which help to consolidate the process of empowering women and promoting equitable relations between men and women in a society more just, inclusive and supportive. DONA'M CINE is an opportunity to document our present, to write our own history from the diversity of social identities, cultural, indigenous, land - urban or rural areas, "sexual, religious or agnostic, ...

The birth of the female comics

At the beginning of the twentieth century, along with the birth of comics and other art, culture seemed to be nothing more than an exclusive preserve of males, both for what he has to do with experience and expertise, for the relevance to it granted both as a spectator and consumer of cultural content and by the leadership that was granted in the works. Such is the case in the few comics that emerged, which had as main character a man (usually hailed as an epic and heroic figure.)

It is therefore comprensinble that the trajectory of female comics could not take off, given the sociohistorical context in which it was framed the thinking of society and to be given this situation almost from the first moment that the first comics began to leave market regularly.

Somehow, the men conditioned the development and disposition of the first comic book devoted to women, or rather, in reality it was they who created them. Gradually over the years, gave way to comic book creators (artists, illustrators and designers) and to create female characters in comics that would later have her animated version.

There are multiple examples of important female characters in comics, which also acquired the heroine role: perhaps the most popular is Wonder Woman, which became a milestone in the United States. The DC Comics character it became a TV animated version, a version of serial fiction and animation films.

Did you know that the first film of Mafalda was in 1979?

By the time he finished the story, in 1973, Canal 11 from Buenos Aires (Argentina) began issuing a series of animated shorts, produced by Daniel Mallo, where the characters conversed Quino.

This led subsequently to Mafalda film, which was conducted in 1979 and released in Argentina in 1981, in Buenos Aires. The film, produced again by Daniel Mallo, featured the animations of Jorge Martín (Catú), music by Riz Ortolani, Alberto Cabado screenplay and directed by Carlos Márquez. As it was a montage of short made for television, in film there was a link between a story and others, which, however, he did not lose the essence of the character. It lasted 75 minutes, and in 1982 was released in Spain under the name of "The Worlds of Mafalda."