MiCultura concludes first phase of cellulapsuit workshop

About 12 audiovisual jobs were the result of an introduction to audiovisual art and environmental culture by the Ministry of Culture (MiCultura) and was to use mobile phones as a tool for documentary production with more than 70 students from the Center for Diversified Arts, Institute of America, Martin Luther King School and Abel Bravo College.

The University Cinema was chosen to present the results of this first workshop that shown the skills and creativity of children and youth to translate into their cellulages, issues such as care of the environment, inclusion and about the social situations they are exposed to in their daily lives.

For the development of each of these sessions at the affected educational centers MiCultura had technical partners and trainers from the Ministry of Education (Meduca) University Cinema Experimental Group (GECU), the Urban Aseo Authority and the National Association for Conservation of Nature (Ancón) who illustrated to the participants about the use of digital tools and issues about recycling.

Andy Marshall, a GECU technician and workshop collaborator, stated that "the students were helped to work his critical film thought, we gave him details about his composition and editing to tell his stories and also teach them about his character's construction and his different roles as part of a film."

For his part, Sheila Ballesteros, film coordinator of the MiCultura National Cinema Management, we have been pleased with the results, because expectations have been met and we have been helping them to develop their research and knowledge about creative culture.

One of the achievements of this first phase was that students from 8 to 11 years old from the Martin Luther King School, located at Cerro Cocopolus in San Miguelito District, will seize the opportunity and also tell their stories.