Punto de Vista - International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra

Punto de Vista has an antecedent in the Navarra Audiovisual Creation Festival, a festival celebrating audiovisual creations held from 1993 to 2002. Videos, computer animation, and auteur documentary films had a prominent place in this festival; there even was a competition for them. In 1998, CD-ROM and Internet creations were added to the competition, in an attempt to include the new artistic languages that emerged from the use of new technologies.

The Navarra Audiovisual Creation Festival welcomed artists working in the new media as well as programmers and scholars who reflected about the changes in the industry. In 1996 and 1998, two series of meetings were held -Video Meetings in Pamplona and Video/AlterMedia Meetings in Pamplona-, gathering specialists like Eugeni Bonet, Lourdes Cilleruelo, Marcelo Expósito, Gabriel Villota, Carles Ameller, Laura Baigorri, and María Pallier, among others.

Directed by Ana Herrera, the Festival was under the artistic guidance of Rafael Baliña in its first four editions.

In 2002, the Festival was redesigned and the Punto de Vista project was conceived. The last editions of the Navarra Audiovisual Creation Festival included retrospectives that paved the way for the new Festival to explore the territory where the documentary and the experimental converge. Carlos Muguiro was the curator of the retrospectives dedicated to José Val del Omar (1997) and Alexander Sokurov (1999). In 2000, the Festival focused on Chris Marker, with a retrospective curated by Mercedes Alvarez. Finally, in 2002, the festival introduced in Spain, thanks to Efrén Cuevas, a retrospective dedicated to Alan Berliner.

The year 2005 marked the beginning of a new stage: the Punto de Vista Documentary Film Festival was created. Just like its predecessor, Punto de Vista was sponsored by the Directorate-General for Culture of the Government of Navarra. In the period 2010-2014 was organized by the public foundation INAAC

After the Punto de Vista festival had been held uninterruptedly for seven editions, from 2005 until 2011, it was agreed to make Punto de Vista biennial in subsequent editions. Therefore, the festival would be held every two years. In order not to disappear from the map for 24 consecutive months, the management body of the festival decided to develop seminars every other year (2012 and 2014). In 2015, Punto de Vista will be yearly again in a edition organized by the Government of Navarra until 2018, when it began to be fully organized by NICDO.

ORGANISATION

The 1st Punto de Vista Festival was directed by Ana Herrera, who relied on Carlos Muguiro's advice for the identification of main lines and the design of the Festival's identity before its launch.

Since 2006, Punto de Vista has had an Executive Director and an Artistic Director. Artistic directors change every four years, so that the Festival can benefit from the contributions of various film experts. Since its inception, Punto de Vista has also had a Selection Committee, whose members choose the films that enter the Official Selection.

2021

Executive director
Teresa Morales de Álava
Artistic director
Garbiñe Ortega
Production coordinator
María Rodríguez Abad
Communication coordinator
Pablo Sotés
Programming coordinator
Garazi Erburu Irigoyen
Attention to guests coordinator
Sara Larripa
Technical coordinator
Iker Espúñez
Communications assistant
Carlota Cortés
Production assistant
Marina Fernández Barcos, Maitena Muruzábal & Mikel González
Attention to guests assistant
Vanessa Chacín
Accreditation
Eva Aldaba
Assistant Film Department - NICDO
Cristian Ruiz
Publisher
Noemi Cuetos
Photography
Txisti
Audiovisual
Natxo Leuza
Design
Dani Sanchis & Itziar Garaluce
Administration
Silvia Urdánoz
Head of Operations (Baluarte)
Eduardo Nanclares
Selection Committee
Garbiñe Ortega, Nuria Cubas, María Palacios Cruz, Matías Piñeiro & Miguel Zozaya

2020

Executive director
Teresa Morales de Álava
Artistic director
Garbiñe Ortega
Production coordinator
María Rodríguez Abad
Communication coordinator
Pablo Sotés
Programming coordinator
Garazi Erburu Irigoyen
Attention to guests coordinator
Sara Larripa
Technical coordinator
Iker Espúñez
Press
Claudia Salcedo
Publisher
Noemi Cuetos
Photography
Txisti
Audiovisual
Natxo Leuza
Accreditation
Eva Aldaba
Administration
Silvia Urdánoz
Selection Committee
Garbiñe Ortega, Nuria Cubas, María Palacios Cruz, Matías Piñeiro, Miguel Zozaya

2019

Executive director
Teresa Morales de Álava
Artistic director
Garbiñe Ortega
Production coordinator
María Rodríguez Abad
Communication coordinator
Pablo Sotés
Programming coordinator
Garazi Erburu Irigoyen
Attention to guests coordinator
Sara Larripa
Technical coordinator
Iker Espúñez
Press
Miguel Moreno
Publisher
Mikel Soto
Photography
Txisti
Audiovisual
Natxo Leuza
Accreditation
Carmen Rojo
Administration
Silvia Urdánoz
Selection Committee
Garbiñe Ortega, Nuria Cubas, María Palacios Cruz, Matías Piñeiro, Miguel Zozaya

2018

Executive director
Fernando Pérez Gómez, Urko Ocaña Gómez
Artistic director
Garbiñe Ortega
Administration
Lourdes Echeverría Lecumberri
Communication coordinator
Andrés García de la Riva
Attention to guests
María Guzmán Ligorit
Programming coordinator
Garazi Erburu Irigoyen
Production coordinator
María Rodríguez Abad
Technical coordinator
Iker Espúñez
Press
Iñigo Tobes
Selection Committee
Garbiñe Ortega, Nuria Cubas, María Palacios Cruz, Matías Piñeiro
Photography
Txisti
Audiovisual
Natxo Leuza

2017

Executive director
Fernando Pérez Gómez, Urko Ocaña Gómez
Artistic director
Oskar Alegria Suescun
Administration
Lourdes Echeverría Lecumberri, Silvia Urdánoz Zazón
Programming coordinator
Marian Fernández Pascal
Communication coordinator
Andrés García de la Riva
Attention to guests
María Guzmán Ligorit
Selection Committee
Koldo Almandoz, Özge Calafato, Alexei Dmitriev, Guillermo G. Peydró, Oskar Alegria
Production, Communication, Design
Rosa García Loire
Press Office
Antonio Miguel Arenas Gamarra

2016

Executive director
Fernando Pérez Gómez, Urko Ocaña Gómez
Artistic director
Oskar Alegria Suescun
Administration
Lourdes Echeverría Lecumberri, Silvia Urdánoz Zazón
Programming coordinator
Marian Fernández Pascal
Communication coordinator
Andrés García de la Riva
Attention to guests
María Guzmán Ligorit
Selection Committee
Koldo Almandoz, Özge Calafato, Alexei Dmitriev, Guillermo G. Peydró, Oskar Alegria
Production, Communication, Design
Rosa García Loire
Press Office
Antonio Miguel Arenas Gamarra

2015

Executive director
Ana Herrera Isasi
Artistic director
Oskar Alegria Suescun
Administration
Anabel Ansa Torres
Programming coordinator
Marian Fernández Pascal
Communication coordinator
Andrés García de la Riva
Attention to guests
María Guzmán Ligorit
Selection Committee
Koldo Almandoz, Özge Calafato, Alexei Dmitriev, Guillermo G. Peydró, Oskar Alegria

2013

Executive director
Koldo Lasa Aristu
Artistic director
Josetxo Cerdán Los Arcos
Programming coordinator
Gonzalo de Pedro
Communication coordinator
Ana Herrera Isasi
Selection Committee
Maite Bermúdez, Josetxo Cerdán, Miguel Fernández Labayen, Gonzalo de Pedro, Elena Oroz

2011

Executive director
Koldo Lasa Aristu
Artistic director
Josetxo Cerdán Los Arcos
Programming coordinator
Gonzalo de Pedro
Communication coordinator
Ana Herrera Isasi
Comisariado retrospectiva Lo personal es político
Elena Oroz, Sophie Mayer
Selection Committee
Maite Bermúdez, Josetxo Cerdán, Miguel Fernández Labayen, Gonzalo de Pedro, Elena Oroz

2010

Executive director
Ana Herrera Isasi
Artistic director
Josetxo Cerdán Los Arcos
Programming coordinator
Gonzalo de Pedro
Curator Afinidades Vigo retrospective
Loic Díaz Ronda
Selection Committee
Maite Bermúdez, Josetxo Cerdán, Miguel Fernández Labayen, Gonzalo de Pedro, Elena Oroz

2009

Executive director
Ana Herrera Isasi
Artistic director
Carlos Muguiro
Curator La segunda vida de las imágenes retrospective
Antonio Weinrichter
Curator Heterodocsias Sin fin
Gonzalo de Pedro
Selection Committee
Maite Bermúdez, Alberto Cañada, Carlos Muguiro, Fermín Martínez, Gonzalo de Pedro, Juan Zapater.

2008

Executive director
Ana Herrera Isasi
Artistic director
Carlos Muguiro
Curator Ermanno Olmi retrospective
Adriano Aprá
Curator Heterodocsias La mano que mira
Juan Zapater
Selection Committee
Alberto Cañada, Ana Herrera, Carlos Muguiro, Koldo Lasa, Gonzalo de Pedro, Juan Zapater

2007

Executive director
Ana Herrera Isasi
Artistic director
Carlos Muguiro
Curator La forma que piensa retrospective
Antonio Weinrichter
Selection Committee
Alberto Cañada, Ana Herrera, Carlos Muguiro, Koldo Lasa, Gonzalo de Pedro, Juan Zapater

2006

Executive director
Ana Herrera Isasi
Artistic director
Carlos Muguiro
Curator Homage to X Films
Koldo Lasa Aristu
Selection Committee
Alberto Cañada, Ana Herrera, Carlos Muguiro, Koldo Lasa, Gonzalo de Pedro, Juan Zapater

2005

Direction
Ana Herrera Isasi
Consultant
Carlos Muguiro
Curator Festival de Festivales
Diego Mas Trelles
Curator Homage to Pío Caro Baroja
Koldo Lasa Aristu
Selection Committee
Ana Herrera, Carlos Muguiro, Koldo Lasa, Juan Zapater

JEAN VIGO

The Punto de Vista festival sees Jean Vigo as a permanent point of reference and guide, which every year we try to cultivate and stimulate with the help and friendship of Luce Vigo, the filmmaker's daughter, film critic and collaborator with the festival.

The festival takes its name from the "punto de vista documentado" (documented perspective) about which the filmmaker used to talk, and since 2007, we have been presenting the Jean Vigo award to the best director.