For three years, the Bogota Film Festival has been sponsored by ATmedios in the "Cinema for Blind People" category. This new edition's aim is to continue bringing cinema to people who are blind or with low vision thanks to audio description.
This important festival has wide experience and international recognition. It was the first in Colombia to include the audio description system in films such as “The Golden Cockerel”, “The Strategy of the Snail” and “The Poor Old Lady.”
This year, the festival selected and restored the Colombian film Dead Men's River, directed by Julio Luzardo, to be audio described by the ATmedios team. This film was released in 1965 and it is a "portrait about life in a town located on the shore of a great river. A scorching climate suffocates those who live there permanently and visitors all year long. All of them get infected with a sleep-inducing condition that makes them face indolently everything that happens around them." Not even the floating corpses shock these characters. Each of them witnesses this violent scenario with indifference. "Guakayo"¸ the indigenous name for the Magdalena River, was the title assigned to the project during filming".
In an interview with La Revista de CM&, the Festival's director, Henry Laguado, gives some news about the "Cinema for Blind People" category, such as a discussion session about the conflict represented by the film. Film making students, the film's director, the audio description team and people who are blind or with low vision can attend the event.
From October 20 to October 28, 2015 the 32nd version of the festival will promote love for cinema as its main topic. Programming and activities will be available soon on the following web site: www.bogocine.com
