Festival Audiovisual Muma Patagonia - 2025 (5)

Festival start: 06 June 2025      Festival end: 07 June 2025

DESCRIPTION OF THE FESTIVAL

The MUMA FEST International Women's and LBTTIQ Audiovisual Festival of Patagonia will take place on Friday June 6 and Saturday June 7, 2025 in the town of El Hoyo, province of Chubut, Argentina. The screenings will take place at the Casa de la Cultura Auditorium, located at the corner of Los Ciruelos & Los Guindos.

Only content directed by Women, Lesbians, Transvestites, Trans, Bisexuals, Intersexuals and Non Binaries will be admitted.

MUMA Fest will have the following sections:

International Feature Film Competition
International Short Film Competition
Argentine-Chilean Patagonian Competition (Short and Feature Films).

All types of audiovisual genres are admitted.

OBJECTIVES OF THE FESTIVAL

- Strengthen the ties between distribution companies, producers and filmmakers of Patagonia.

- To know and recognize the narratives of women and dissidents from all over the world and to put them in dialogue with the Patagonian public.

- To provide tools for professional training that contribute to the labor insertion of women and dissidents from the Patagonian region.

- To generate a space for exchange with women's audiovisual networks from other parts of Latin America and the world.

We plan to continue expanding the number of localities and provinces of both countries that can join the PATAGONIAN TOUR =)

Cities of the Patagonian region with which we have screened in previous editions of MUMA FEST

FILM FESTIVAL DATES
June 6th and June 7th. 2025

The Muma Patagonia International Audiovisual Festival will take place on June 6th and June 7th. 2025 and will be held in person in El Hoyo, Chubut. Only films directed by women and LGBTQ+ people are admitted. We do not screen films made by cis gender men.

It will have the following sections:

International Feature Film Competition

International Short Film Competition

Patagonian Film Competition


VENUES
Cultural House Auditorium of El Hoyo, Los Ciruelos & Los Guindos streets

SPECIAL ACTIVITIES

In online mode

- Conversation between networks of audiovisual women from different regions of Argentina:


OBJECTIVES OF THE FESTIVAL

- Strengthen ties between distribution companies, producers and filmmakers in Patagonia.

- Know and recognize the narratives of women and dissidence from around the world and put them in dialogue with the public.

- Provide tools for professional training that contribute to the employment of women and dissidents in the Patagonian region.

- Generate a space for exchange with networks of audiovisual women from other parts of Latin America and the world.

Awards

Screenings of the winner films in our PATAGONIC TOUR

Venue 1
- Neuquén, Villa La Angostura
Biblioteca Osvaldo Bayer

Venue 2
- Rio Negro, Bariloche
Biblioteca Popular Carilafquen

REGULATION

5th MUMA PATAGONIA AUDIOVISUAL FESTIVAL

MAIN GOAL

MUMA FEST aims to strengthen ties between distribution companies, producers and filmmakers in Patagonia, learn about and recognize the narratives of women and dissidence from around the world and put them in dialogue with the public, provide tools for professional training with a gender perspective that contribute to the employment of women and dissidents in the Patagonian region and generate a space for exchange with women's audiovisual networks from other parts of Latin America and the world.

ARTICLE 1
Made by the Network of Audiovisual Women of Patagonia Argentina, part of the RED FAP (network of audiovisual festivals of Patagonia), the 5th MUMA PATAGONIA Audiovisual Festival will take place online and in person in the town of El Hoyo, Chubut, in the screening main auditorium of the Cultural Auditorium on June 6th and June 7th. 2025

ARTICLE 2
The registration of films in all categories is free for Argentine content and is open to national and international long, medium and short film productions of all genres made by women, dissidents and non-binary identities.

ARTICLE 3
The 5th edition of the MUMA PATAGONIA Audiovisual Festival will include: International Feature Film Competition, International Short Film Competition, Patagonian films made in Rio Negro, Neuquén, Chubut, Santa Cruz y Tierra del Fuego, Argentina and in Los Lagos, Aysén, Magallanes in Chile.

ARTICLE 4
Each film may have up to 2 (two) screenings, including an additional one for the press, if so decided by the Festival authorities. Once the Festival has communicated the selection of a film and the producer or his representative has provided his consent, it cannot be withdrawn. Its producer or the designated representative must submit the requested film and promotional materials before the deadline, as indicated in ANNEX I of these Regulations.

These materials will be used for the catalogue, the website, the press, publicity and dissemination of the film's participation in the Festival. The films will be presented in the original language, subtitled in spanish if necessary.

ARTICLE 5
To present a film to the Festival selection, it is necessary to complete the steps detailed below:

a) Register through Festhome
b) Send a download link with password.

Registration closes on May 9th

The entire registration process will be exclusively online.

ARTICLE 6
The Selection Committee will recommend to the Festival authorities the films that, in the opinion of its members, should be chosen to be part of this edition of the Festival. The authorities will decide based on this proposal, selecting the works that respond to the objective of the Festival and have relevant and/or innovative artistic values, in order to form an Official Section compatible with the requirements of an International Competitive Festival.

ARTICLE 7
The organizers of the festival will designate the members of the juries for each section. Decisions will be made by absolute majority in the first two ballots and by relative majority in the following ones. Anyone who has any type of interest in the production or exploitation of a film in competition cannot be a jury. The members of the Jury firmly undertake not to publicly express their opinions regarding the films submitted for their consideration before the official proclamation of the awards.

ARTICLE 8

FOR ALL THE FILMS IN COMPETITION
‍National and international feature films participate. The productions must have been completed during 2023 - 2025 period.

The copies to be screened must necessarily have subtitles in Spanish if they are spoken in other languages.

The following prizes will be awarded:

‍for Best international Feature Film;
‍Special Jury Prize;
‍for Best international shortfilm;
‍for Best patagonian film

All the winning films in each section:
- Will receive Muma Fest laurels and certificates.
- Will be mentioned in the social networks of the Festival and the Muma Fest Organization.
- Will be part of the digital catalog of our Festival.
- Will be screened at least one more time through the

MUMA FEST TOUR:
Presentation of the winning films in different provinces of the Argentine Patagonian region (Neuquén, Río Negro, Chubut and Santa Cruz) and the Chilean Patagonian region (Aysen).

We intend to continue expanding the number of locations and provinces of both countries that can join the GIRA PATAGONICA =)

The Jury may award up to 2 (two) Special Mentions, indicating the motivation that makes those who obtain them worthy of those mentions. No film may receive more than 2 (two) prizes, and no prize may be declared void.

ARTICLE 9
Once a film is scheduled, it cannot be withdrawn from the Festival.

ARTÍCULO 10º

10.1. The producers and distributors of those films that make up the Competitions undertake to include in all their advertising and press material the phrase “Official Selection of the MUMA PATAGONIA Audiovisual Festival”, using the Festival logo.

10.2. The producers and distributors of those films that win awards undertake to highlight them in all their advertising and press material, using the Festival logo.

10.3. This logo will be available on the Festival website.

ARTÍCULO 11º
Faced with the need to resolve an issue that is not contemplated in these bases and conditions, the MUMA fest committee together with the designated Juries will be responsible for making the pertinent decisions, which will be final.