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Ambulante, Part Two

Doris Morales

Ambulante is an initiative of Canana, an international production company co-founded by Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna and Pablo Cruz. Canana organizes a national tour of recent documentaries; this year, Ambulante will travel to Monterrey, Puebla, Metepec, Morelia, Chihuahua, Oaxaca, Cancún, Guadalajara, Ciudad Juárez, San Luis Potosí, León, Tijuana, Tuxtla Gutiérrez and Mérida. The tour is made possible thanks to the support of Cinépolis and The Morelia Film Festival.

One of Ambulante’s main aims is to take documentary films beyond Mexico City. This project will also allow Latin American documentaries to travel abroad: Ambulate will showcase films at the National Film Theater in London and Manchester’s ¡Viva! Festival.

Ambulante 2007 will be made up of documentaries that have been well received in other festivals, but that also raise questions about social issues, and have a distinctive and original point of view.

This edition will also include a section called Dictator’s Cut, which will show documentaries that have suffered censorship in different countries, or been made by directors who have had to fight political oppression in order to express their ideas on film.

Injerto, another section within the traveling film festival, will be devoted to experimental documentaries that defy categorization, made by artists and filmmakers who use unconventional techniques.

Ambulante will also include a postproduction workshop, given in collaboration with IMCINE. The workshop, taught by Tlacateotl Mata, a renowned production and postproduction specialist, will take place in Morelia, Guadalajara and Mexico City. The workshop will end with a master class taught by one of the Festival’s special guests.

Ambulante’s second documentary tour will take place from the 2nd of February to the 29th of March, 2007.