From this Thursday until 11 April will take place the National Festival of Women and Cinema, promoted by the Ministry of Culture of the City, Patronage and BA Audiovisual, through Impulso Cultural.

With important economic prizes distributed in different categories, the meeting will present talks and other activities as a complement.

Important figures will be part of the jury of this initiative that strives for the promotion and strengthening of the presence of the filmmakers in the universe of audiovisual expression, valuing their looks and spreading their works, it can be enjoyed online through Vivamos Cultura.

A total of 36 productions will be part of the short film competition, with a jury that will be made up of actress Cecilia Roth, the producer and founding member of La Mujer y el Cine Lita Stantic, the artistic director of the Mar del Plata Festival Cecilia Barrionuevo, the director Andrea Testa, and the actress, director and also member of the Victoria Carreras association.

This year, The General Management of the Festival will be in charge of Annamaría Muchnik, President of the Association La Mujer y el Cine.

Muchnik, precisely, highlighted the entity of this meeting that –from the birth of the entity that presides over, make 33 years- “Continues to fight for the promotion and strengthening of the presence of the filmmakers in the audiovisual universe, valuing their looks and spreading their works "and added: “Every year more women are encouraged, take the camera and say the same. The situation of women in the cinema has changed, but as long as gender inequalities remain present, we women will stay still. There is no turning back. Feminism united us and beyond the difficulties, we will continue to support all those who want to express themselves in images ".

Likewise, the Minister of Culture of the City Enrique Avogadro expressed the pride of “being able to work from BA Audiovisual together with the Association La Mujer y el Cine, to give visibility to artistic productions made by women ".

To Avogadro, “The gender issue runs through us in all aspects of our lives. Because, from the Ministry of Culture of the City, We have been carrying out different activities that invite us to reflect on a more just world, free and egalitarian, generating spaces for both individual and collective introspection ".