The competition was aimed at all regular and contracted professors with teaching load 2022-1 from all academic departments of the University. Of the 20 winning projects, 5 belong to professors from the Department of Humanities. They will receive funding of up to S/. 30 thousand for individual projects and S/. 50 thousand for team projects.
Our winning teachers in the individual category were: Joel Calero Gamarra with the project "Scriptwriting for the feature film "September", Pedro Favarón with "Non onan shina: the medicinal worlds and Shipibo-Konibo wisdom", Rocío Silva Santisteban with "Woman in the hemicycle. Congress, political crisis and pandemic in the patriarchal structure of power in Peru" and Mariana Suarez de Olsen with the project "Azul y Celeste". In the team category, our professor Víctor Vich was the winner with the project "Contrapunto visual, contrapunto poético" (Visual counterpoint, poetic counterpoint) together with the photographer Lucero del Castillo. Below they tell us more about their creations:
Professor Galero's project consists of writing the screenplay for the film "Setiembre". "This will be the fourth feature film of a film tetralogy in development and execution for several years about the internal armed conflict that shook Peruvian society. Our proposal is to explore that historical event, but from its echoes and resonances in the current lives of characters who were participants in those events or were direct relatives of them."
"The first film is "La Última Tarde", which premiered worldwide in the Official Competition of the Rome Film Festival in 2016 and has won awards for Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Film and Youth Award at various international festivals. The second film, "La Piel Más Temida", is in post-production and "Álbum de Familia" will be shot in February 2023.
Now, thanks to the CAP Creation Award we will be able to start working on the fourth film."
The professor tells us that the idea for the script arose on September 11, 2021, the day of Abimael Guzmán's death. "That this happened on the same date as the attack on the twin towers (20 years ago) and the bombing of the Moneda Palace when Allende was overthrown (38 years ago) was the trigger for the initial idea."
His project is called "Non onan Shina (the medicinal wisdom of a Shipibo-Konibo family)".
"It will be a book between creative writing and academic research that I am finishing together with my wife Chonon Bensho (a renowned artist of the Shipibo-Konibo nation), says Professor Favarón.
"We propose the possibility of an indigenous paradigm of research, with research and writing methodologies based on indigenous ontologies, epistemologies, narratives and poetics that aims to be a contribution to the formation of an intercultural indigenous academy in Peru and of a philosophical thought based on Shipibo-Konibo ancestral knowledge."
The professor explains, "Woman in the hemicycle is a book of memoirs or analysis-participant testimony from a feminist approach about my experience during the 2020-2021 congress held during the COVID 19 pandemic, facing various political crises with some prominence, such as when I was president of Congress before the fall of Manuel Merino and the death of two young protesters (Inti Sotelo and Bryan Pintado). The idea of the memoirs arose from the first moment I was sworn in as a congresswoman, on March 16, 2020, when we also learned that everything in front of COVID was being closed.
The idea of being a pandemic congresswoman, facing the claims before the precariousness of our country's health, the urgent needs of the population and death surrounding us, day and night, mentally demanded me to use the instrument that has always helped me to survive: writing."
The professor tells us that her short film project "Azul y celeste" was born from the urgent need to create spaces for the integration of the Venezuelan population in our country.
"Thanks to different variables such as having a common language, geographical proximity and some other affinities between both nations, Peru became one of the most frequently chosen destinations. Today, close to one million Venezuelans live in the country, which makes it urgent to create spaces for integration".
"Azul y celeste" tells the story of two pregnant women, one from Ayacucho and the other from eastern Venezuela, who are experiencing migratory processes with different characteristics. From their conversation it is possible to appreciate the points of contact and the possibilities of support that the most vulnerable people can generate when they must leave the place where their family and social networks are located."
The objectives of the project are:
-To build a space for migrants and nationals to meet and discuss in time and space the social, political and economic difficulties that Venezuela is going through.
-To make the intersection gender-migration condition visible and open a space to think about the specificity of migrant women.
-To allow the Peruvian spectator to become familiar with Venezuelan customs and habits, in order to generate links between the two communities.
This project is a joint creation with photographer Lucero del Castillo. Professor Vich tells us that the project emerged during the pandemic and has been entirely realized through e-mail exchanges. "The project emerges as an exploration of two people who have sought another way to converse".
"This project wonders about the dialogue between poetry and image and aims to produce a photobook. We know that poetic discourse leaves the usual language to build an image with words, and we also know that images often activate the need to produce a discourse about them."
"The proposal combines the knowledge of a photographer with a poetry professor. Each image summons a poem and this, in turn, summons another image within the framework of a growing deployment of questions about the conditions in which we inhabit the world. The sequence seeks to dialogue with that which opens and closes life in dynamics of pleasure and suffering."
"The project questions the supposed autonomy of each artistic register and observes its vocation of relay. Can the artistic object arise from a collective creation and not purely individual? Can art cease to be an object and make its link visible? What is the dialogic behind the monologue of artistic production? The photographs and poems in this exhibition are a bid to make visible an integrated materialization of the arts, an alternative form of aesthetic production."
On this page, you can find more information about the contest, as well as the rules for this year's edition. Additionally, to review the complete list of winners, we invite you to visit the following link: https://bit.ly/3QnqE3P