C/ Casilda Caimaris, 25
Ciutadella de Menorca
Spain
- Arts
- International/Cultural relations
Mèdit is not only an alternative audiovisual culture of Menorca’s Island, neither the Balearic’s Islands, but also for the Mediterranean audiovisual circuit. We want Menorca to be expanded to other countries. We want the island to be a sponge of the Mediterranean culture, a culture belonging to twenty-two countries that share the same sea’s shore: the Mare Nostrum. That is why it is a Mediterranean cinema festival. Mèdit believes in culture as a medium creator of restlessness, both for the youth and the elderly. Those concerns that we seek to generate in people are the same ones that has taken us to cheerfully develop and work on this project. Mèdit considers the audience equally important as the creators and that is the reason why it seeks its maximum participation not only as a passive spectator of the projections, but also as an active spectator of the open audiovisual workshops offered to the public. Mèdit is much more than an exhibition; it is a Mediterranean cinema observatory, a social and cultural scanner of the audiovisual Mediterranean production. Not only for the type of programming proposed involving the majority of the sea-border countries, but also because each year we dedicate a section to an actual subject.
The main project of SUAU is MÊDIT, Festival de Cinema Mediterrani de Menorca. It takes place durning the summer in Menorca. Almost everything we project is open air. We have several seccions as: Open air Cinema (feature films); Curt-Mèdit (shortfilms); Arabic seccion (a place for the arabic cinema); Special seccion in a special place (every year takes a different form. This year we'll project an italian film from Fellini, in Líthica); and the workshop "Let's do a short!" for the teenagers of the island (they learn by doing how to do a film and we project it the last nigh at the Cathedral Square).
We could share opinions, ideas, give a mediterranean cinematografic point of view to the others associations from Spanin that are involved with ALF.
Because we need to expand, to be more opened to the rest of the mediterranean countries, and after our research we've realised that be part of the ALF Network would be the best opcion. Also we'd like to be able to apply to other sourses of funding, and as far as we know, you can inform us about them and when they come out. Also we'd like to make a call to invite volunteers from the mediterranean countries to be part of our team during the festival (we just don't have the net, neither the economic resourses for that...)